American Palestine Exploration Society Photograph Collection, 1875

This file contains a finding aid for the American Palestine Exploration Society Photograph Collection. To access the collection, please contact the archivist (asorarch@bu.edu) at the American Schools of Oriental Research, located at Boston University.

The collection contains oversize albumin prints taken during the first photodocumented American survey of the regions east and west of the Jordan River. The photographs document ruins, architecture, and landscapes in Israel / Palestine, Lebanon, and Malta.