Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Map of Palestine; Irrigated Areas, 1:250,000. 1955.
  1:250,000 scale map of irrigated areas in Palestine, with text in English and Hebrew, printed in 1955. Contains an index to Villages & Settlements, and a Map of Irrigated Areas. Published by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture - Water Department, Water Utilisation Division. Compiled, Drawn & Printed by the Survey of Palestine, 1946.
• Ministry of Agrarian Reform - The Greater Mussayab Project Iraq
  Document illustrates social and agricultural works and projects intended for Iraq (The Greater Mussayab Project) including thoughts, figures and other considerations made for the project.
• Ornamental Gardening in Bahrain, Department of Agriculture, The Government of Bahrain. Circa 1950's.
  Ornamental Gardening in Bahrain, Department of Agriculture, The Government of Bahrain, Box No. 251, Bahrain. Author: A.W.Van-Ollenbach, Director of Agriculture A guide to ornamental Gardening in Bahrain providing guidance on climatic & environmental conditions, sowing seeds, maintenance, types of fertilizers as well as pests, diseases and control measures.
• Palestine Liberation Organization - Palestine National Fund - Central Bureau of Statistics - Volume 1: Agricultural Statistical Bulletin for the West Bank and Gaza Strip 1979
  Agricultural Statistical Bulletin for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, published in 1979 by the PLO, with data on land use, agriculture crops, labour demographics and other issues.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "A typical hakoureh, mixed-agriculture plot situated in the village itself and thus benefitting from sewage and drainage water, manure, and very intensive cultivation. Fruit and vegetables for home consumption as well as tobacco are grown in the kawakeer (pl.) but some of the crops are disposed of commercially as well."
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Piles of freshly-harvested kersenneh in the foreground; grain not yet cut in middle ground. Note the young olive trees and the highway".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Kneeling camel preparing for loading. Note the device of stout branches and ropes on which the wheat is being piled".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Loading and tying a camel".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows grazing sheep.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camels carrying wheat loads.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Familiar scene at harvest time".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camel loaded with wheat with two persons.
• 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 piles of kersenneh, showing typical rocky hill landscape".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows wheat being loaded & tied to camel.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "The camel under his load".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows camel prepared for loading with wheat.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows land being ploughed.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Scene shows two camels with harnesses for transporting wheat loads.
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Kersenneh [vetch] harvest. Kersenneh is a very small grain, used for feed, which matures before wheat and barley. The whole plant is pulled out of the ground - the same technique is used for lentils and taken to the threshing floor. The harvester[s] proceed on their haunches all day, pulling the stalks, shaking the soil from the roots, and building little piles of sheaves".
• Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine.
  Annotation reads "Herd of sheep and goats on a freshly-cut grain field. Note landscape".
• 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.