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TITLE ON OBJECT: Jerusalem, Site of the Temple on Mount Moriah
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

June 7, 1857
PUBLISHERS:
Anthony, John
Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from wet collodion negative
15.4 x 21.0 cm. , (oval)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31951
79:1992:0002

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Taken on Collodion (wet) with aid of a tent, June 7, 1857, at 4 p.m. in sunshine; Exposure four minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens (single) by Clifford, Piccadilly; focal length about fourteen inches; diameter two and thee-quarter inches; Diaphragm half an inch." "Printed on albumenized paper, toned with Gold, by Mr. Spencer." "Jerusalem, site of the Temple on Mount Moriah." "Photographed by John Anthony, M.D. Cantab." [description of scene by photographer]

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. For full description of image, refer to album.

SUBJECT: architecture, temple / Mosque of Omar

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