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Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown, relating to Palestine., 1939.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/83-87
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1939.

Lists compiled by David Roberts of subjects for drawings for inclusion in a work on Palestine, Idumea and Sinai. With the lists is a sketch by Roberts of the temple of Kalábshe, Nubia., ? 1839.

 File
Identifier: MS.42531
Scope and Contents Folios 1-2 : "List of subjects for a work on Palestine", ?1839;folios 3-4 : list of subjects, ?1839, "Idumea";folios 5-6 : list of subjects, 1839 : Suez and the Red Sea; Sinai; Petra; and,folio 7 : pen and ink sketch, "General View of the Temple of Kalábshe, Nubia", with notes concerning the temple.The lists of subjects would appear to relate to the publication, "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" : a series of lithographs...
Dates: ? 1839.

Notes of photographs taken, possibly in Palestine., 1939.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4338/88
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1939.

Three photographic portraits of Laurence Oliphant; with a photograph of a room in Oliphant`s house in Haifa, Palestine., ? 1860s-? 1880s.

 File
Identifier: MS.42515
Scope and Contents

Each photograph has an annotation on the verso :

(f.) "Laurence Oliphant" taken by "Herbert Watkins, Photographer, 215, Regent Street" ;

(f.) "Enlarged from C. de V. photograph of Laurence Oliphant" [copy];

(f.) "Laurence Oliphant" [copy]; and,

(f.) "Laurence Oliphant`s house at Haifa, Palestine. Rev. Haslett Smith seated".

Dates: ? 1860s-? 1880s.

Wartime sketch book of Patrick Leigh Fermor, including sketches of Albania, Crete and Palestine., 1941.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13338/665
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1941.