Notebook – Palestine and Egypt
Reference code
FOW/01/64/A
Title
Notebook – Palestine and Egypt
Date
1907
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Continuation of FOW/01/63 diary of a cruise to Egypt and Palestine in March and April 1907, including Constantinople, and Athens.
Includes
* details of cruise from Constantinople to Athens; cruise from Athens to Naples; train to Pompeii; cruise from Naples to Marseilles; train through France, including stops in Valence, Dijon (includes Hotel voucher for the Grand Hotel de la Cloche), Paris and Boulogne;
* observations on ‘pariah dogs’ of Constantinople; classical sites of Athens; food;
* letter from WF Young dated [13?] May 1907 enclosing some photographs from their time in Athens;
* 80 picture cards of Lyon, Marseilles, Malta, Haifa, Tabor, Tiberias, Nazareth, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Cairo, the mummy of Rameses II, pyramids of Giza, Constantinople, Athens, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Dijon.
The following photographs (roughly 9cm x 6cm) are pasted in:
Temple of Theseus, Athens (‘JTF in knicker suit’)
Temple of Theseus, showing drums shifted by earthquake
Bema of Pnyx
Remaining courses of once high enclosing wall of area in front of Bema of Pnyx
Propylea from within, shifted drums
Chair of Priest of Dionysos at Theatre of Dionysos
Seats of priests and people at Theatre of Dionysos
Church of St Eleutherius, West
Church of Panagia Megalo Monastiri
Church of Panagia Monastiri
Pedestal of Pyrrhus
Vase and pillar
Christian sculpture
Dial stone
Fallen column of Parthenon, Erechtheum under repairs
Fallen column of Parthenon, Erechtheum under repairs (closer view)
Church of St Theodore
Church of St Theodore (alternate angle)
End façade of Stoa of Hadrian
Fallen column of Olympieum
Fallen column of Olympieum, showing capital
Olympieum
Acropolis from near Olympieum
‘Emigrants’ with their baggage on the pier at Naples
View near Straits of Bonifacio, showing lighthouse
‘Snapshot’ on Argonaut of Mrs Taylor, JTF and Lady Dorothea
Cathedral, Valence, South side and Sacristy
Cathedral, Valence, East end
Larger photographs also pasted in (17cm x 11cm):
3 horse charabancs stopped for food and water near Tiberias and Lubiyeh
Group of people at Keph Kenna
The well at Nazareth
Passengers being embarked at sea for Jaffa
Street Scene, Jerusalem
Outside Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
Great Dome of the Rock
Mount of Olives
Entrance to the Tomb of Lazarus
Bethlehem
Interior of St John’s cave, Patmos
Includes
* details of cruise from Constantinople to Athens; cruise from Athens to Naples; train to Pompeii; cruise from Naples to Marseilles; train through France, including stops in Valence, Dijon (includes Hotel voucher for the Grand Hotel de la Cloche), Paris and Boulogne;
* observations on ‘pariah dogs’ of Constantinople; classical sites of Athens; food;
* letter from WF Young dated [13?] May 1907 enclosing some photographs from their time in Athens;
* 80 picture cards of Lyon, Marseilles, Malta, Haifa, Tabor, Tiberias, Nazareth, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Cairo, the mummy of Rameses II, pyramids of Giza, Constantinople, Athens, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Dijon.
The following photographs (roughly 9cm x 6cm) are pasted in:
Temple of Theseus, Athens (‘JTF in knicker suit’)
Temple of Theseus, showing drums shifted by earthquake
Bema of Pnyx
Remaining courses of once high enclosing wall of area in front of Bema of Pnyx
Propylea from within, shifted drums
Chair of Priest of Dionysos at Theatre of Dionysos
Seats of priests and people at Theatre of Dionysos
Church of St Eleutherius, West
Church of Panagia Megalo Monastiri
Church of Panagia Monastiri
Pedestal of Pyrrhus
Vase and pillar
Christian sculpture
Dial stone
Fallen column of Parthenon, Erechtheum under repairs
Fallen column of Parthenon, Erechtheum under repairs (closer view)
Church of St Theodore
Church of St Theodore (alternate angle)
End façade of Stoa of Hadrian
Fallen column of Olympieum
Fallen column of Olympieum, showing capital
Olympieum
Acropolis from near Olympieum
‘Emigrants’ with their baggage on the pier at Naples
View near Straits of Bonifacio, showing lighthouse
‘Snapshot’ on Argonaut of Mrs Taylor, JTF and Lady Dorothea
Cathedral, Valence, South side and Sacristy
Cathedral, Valence, East end
Larger photographs also pasted in (17cm x 11cm):
3 horse charabancs stopped for food and water near Tiberias and Lubiyeh
Group of people at Keph Kenna
The well at Nazareth
Passengers being embarked at sea for Jaffa
Street Scene, Jerusalem
Outside Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
Great Dome of the Rock
Mount of Olives
Entrance to the Tomb of Lazarus
Bethlehem
Interior of St John’s cave, Patmos
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary