Tomb of St. James
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
Archive for November, 2008
Entrance to the Tombs of the Kings
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
Tombs in the Valley of the Kedron
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
Stair Case in the English Cemetery Cut Out of the Face of the Escarped Rock
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
Valley of Hinnom, Looking South from the Jaffa Gate
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
The Village of Siloam
Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865. An official Ottoman village list from about 1870 shows that the village of Siloam (Silwan) had a total of 92 houses and an adult male population of 240. In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine described Silwan as a “village perched on […]
Tower of David
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865. See also- David’s Citadel / Tower of David, 37 BCE Herod the Great 37-4, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem- Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991. Tower of David Museum of the History of the Jewish People
Entrance to the Church of the Virgin in the Valley of the Kedron
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
View from the Old City
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.
The Zion Gate
Returning and Redemption Photographs of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Charles W. Wilson, 1865.