Notebook – Palestine and Egypt
Reference code
FOW/01/63
Title
Notebook – Palestine and Egypt
Date
1907
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diary of a cruise to Egypt and Palestine in March and April 1907, including Patmos, and Constantinople. Reference numbers 1-91 within the text refer to picture cards and photographs at the end of FOW/01/64.
Includes:
* details of train journey through France (Paris, Lyons, Avignon, Marseilles (includes restaurant ticket for the Grand hotel Noailles & Metropole)); cruise from Marseilles to Haifa via Malta; tours from Haifa to Tiberias and Nazareth; train from Jaffa to Jerusalem, carriages from Jerusalem to Bethlehem; train from Port Said to Cairo; cruise from Port Said to Constantinople via Patmos.
* drawings of Cape Bon, Pantellaria, St Paul’s Bay, Haifa; inscriptions of tomb stones from a Jewish cemetery near the Dead Sea.
* observations on food, the death and burial of a passenger (a doctor) at sea, porpoises and camels, pyramids, museums, religious and other local sights.
The following photographs (roughly 9cm x 6cm) are pasted in:
St Paul’s Bay and Salmonetta Isle viewed from the sea (Malta);
St Paul’s Bay and the village (Malta)
Whited Sepulchre at Tiberias
The Well, Nazareth
Fields at Bethlehem
Fields and walled enclosures at Bethlehem, Frank Mountain in distance
Zion Gate, Jerusalem
The son of the Muslim preacher
Jerusalem from Mount of Olives
View looking over Bethphage to Dead Sea from Russian Church
Dead Sea and mountains beyond, from Mount of Olives
Jerusalem from Jewish Cemetary
Bethany
Jerusalem from road returning from Bethany
Olive tree, Gethsemane
Entrance to the subterranean church of St Mary [Jerusalem?]
Jerusalem from roof of Hospice of Notre Dame
‘Jews at the Wailing Place’
‘Jewesses at the Wailing Place’
Remains of façade before ‘Tombs of Kings’
Roman remains at ‘Tombs of Kings’
Openings to great cisterns at ‘Tombs of Kings’
Train station at Jerusalem
Camel at Jerusalem train station
Great and second pyramid of rocky plateau, delta level in foreground
Great and second pyramid of rocky plateau, camels in foreground
Great and second pyramid of rocky plateau, with tramline and telegraph wires
Sphinx and Great Pyramid
Hamlet with palms and irrigation streams
Pyramids and tram-line by irrigation stream
Irrigation stream with [swape]
Kheir Shenonda and another boy
Debris by the side of Great Pyramid
Camels near the Sphinx
Sphinx
Sphinx from behind
Sphinx from one side
Corner of a small pyramid retaining facing stones
Joggled masonry at Cairo
Lower Monastery [Patmos?]
Upper Monstery [Patmos?]
Monastery of St John, Patmos
Monastery of the Apocalypse, Patmos (extinct windmills beyond)
Village well, Patmos
‘My Geranium’ and schoolboys
Fresco at St John’s monastery, Patmos
General view of Patmos
Seagulls seen from the Argonaut, Constantinople
Includes:
* details of train journey through France (Paris, Lyons, Avignon, Marseilles (includes restaurant ticket for the Grand hotel Noailles & Metropole)); cruise from Marseilles to Haifa via Malta; tours from Haifa to Tiberias and Nazareth; train from Jaffa to Jerusalem, carriages from Jerusalem to Bethlehem; train from Port Said to Cairo; cruise from Port Said to Constantinople via Patmos.
* drawings of Cape Bon, Pantellaria, St Paul’s Bay, Haifa; inscriptions of tomb stones from a Jewish cemetery near the Dead Sea.
* observations on food, the death and burial of a passenger (a doctor) at sea, porpoises and camels, pyramids, museums, religious and other local sights.
The following photographs (roughly 9cm x 6cm) are pasted in:
St Paul’s Bay and Salmonetta Isle viewed from the sea (Malta);
St Paul’s Bay and the village (Malta)
Whited Sepulchre at Tiberias
The Well, Nazareth
Fields at Bethlehem
Fields and walled enclosures at Bethlehem, Frank Mountain in distance
Zion Gate, Jerusalem
The son of the Muslim preacher
Jerusalem from Mount of Olives
View looking over Bethphage to Dead Sea from Russian Church
Dead Sea and mountains beyond, from Mount of Olives
Jerusalem from Jewish Cemetary
Bethany
Jerusalem from road returning from Bethany
Olive tree, Gethsemane
Entrance to the subterranean church of St Mary [Jerusalem?]
Jerusalem from roof of Hospice of Notre Dame
‘Jews at the Wailing Place’
‘Jewesses at the Wailing Place’
Remains of façade before ‘Tombs of Kings’
Roman remains at ‘Tombs of Kings’
Openings to great cisterns at ‘Tombs of Kings’
Train station at Jerusalem
Camel at Jerusalem train station
Great and second pyramid of rocky plateau, delta level in foreground
Great and second pyramid of rocky plateau, camels in foreground
Great and second pyramid of rocky plateau, with tramline and telegraph wires
Sphinx and Great Pyramid
Hamlet with palms and irrigation streams
Pyramids and tram-line by irrigation stream
Irrigation stream with [swape]
Kheir Shenonda and another boy
Debris by the side of Great Pyramid
Camels near the Sphinx
Sphinx
Sphinx from behind
Sphinx from one side
Corner of a small pyramid retaining facing stones
Joggled masonry at Cairo
Lower Monastery [Patmos?]
Upper Monstery [Patmos?]
Monastery of St John, Patmos
Monastery of the Apocalypse, Patmos (extinct windmills beyond)
Village well, Patmos
‘My Geranium’ and schoolboys
Fresco at St John’s monastery, Patmos
General view of Patmos
Seagulls seen from the Argonaut, Constantinople
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary