Holyland-Photographs
Historical Photographs of the Holy Land

Short introduction

Gustaf Dalman, the director of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, and his team comes to Bedouin peoples east of the Jordan river, [probably] 1907, photographer: unknown.

The Holyland Photographs Project means a cooperation between the Gustaf Dalman Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald and the Institute for Biblical Sciences at the Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg.

There are some research collections of historical photographs from Palestine and the surrounding Near Eastern World in German Theological Institutions. »Historical« is, that most of them are glass plates from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It's our concern to keep in repair the photographic documents and to publish the materials for scientific research and historical interests.

This way we put up a database of historical photographs from the Holy Land. On this web site you are welcome to see a database prototype of our work in progress. You will also find some informations about the project itself. We are setting up also a Database-GIS connection to give you in the future a nice atlas for browsing the archive of photographs.

The Holyland Photographs Project is sponsored

• by IBM in a preliminary state of work (1994–1995 with technical equipment)
• mainly by the Volkswagen Foundation (1998–2001 for image scanning, database design and internet publishing)