Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Arches and pillars gradually falling into ruin in a residence virtually abandon[n]ed by the Abdul Hady family in its progressive move from Arrabeh to the towns between 1840 and 1940".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Part of the residence built in Arrabeh by Mahmoud Bek Abdul Hadi, Governor of Acre who surrendered it to the British in 1840".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Ruined Abdul Hadi home in disuse in Arrabeh".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows two camels under load.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows lone camel with harness.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows men harvesting crops and loading it on a camel.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows three men securing crop load.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows rural dwellings, animals & children.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows person cycling through archway in part of the residence built in Arrabeh by Mahmoud Bek Abdul Hadi, Governor of Acre who surrendered it to the British in 1840.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows archways in ruins of abandoned residence.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "Main square of Old Arrabeh showing mosque built by Husayn Abdul Hadi, Ibrahim Pasha's ally & founder of the family's modern fortunes".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "Homes in Arrabeh today. Note the domes of the better houses".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "The man standing up is the camel driver who is helping his customers with the harvest. Note the sheaf of kersenneh in his hands. Women later assemble the little piles of sheaves into larger ones, which they later carry on their heads onto piles large enough each to make a single camel load. The camel will take them to the threshing floor. Note men and women working side by side".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "Two types of building: rough stones, reinforced by cut stones at the corners, for the peasant home; cut stone for the Abdul Hadis and richer peasants".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "A mixed orchard and grove of olives, almonds, figs and deciduous fruit trees in the lower-lying valley land of Arrabeh, an area formerly under field crops and progressively coming under horticulture by a very low process since World War II".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows harvest stacks in yard.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation read "Ancient Atari home and clan".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows man in courtyard of building.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows stone building with courtyard.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows tree in front of building.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camel being loaded with harvested crops.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camels being loaded with harvested crops.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camels being loaded with harvested crops.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camel being loaded with harvested crops.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camel being loaded with harvested crops.