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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Hajj Fathi Rushrash Hamdan". Scene shows portrait of man in front of a wall, smiling at the camera.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Abu Ali, Mustafa (L) & Younis at Jenin Tabu(?). Scene shows three men looking into the camera.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Bashful Abu Sameer on Hu campus [with] two American Jews". Scene shows three people sitting on a bench under a tree.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Abu Khaled, the bus driver". Scene shows man and child looking into the camera, standing in front of a bus.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Interior of [an ?] bus". Scene, taken from inside a vehicle, shows a man in the passenger seat next to the steering wheel and view through the windscreen showing passers-by.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Interior of [an ?] bus". Scene, taken from inside a vehicle, shows the a man in the passenger seat next to the steering wheel and view through the windscreen showing passers-by.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine, circa 1970's. Annotation reads "Abu Sameer in Safed". Scene shows man smiling into the camera.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of life in Palestine. Scene shows a large modern-style building with truck parked outside.
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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."
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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".
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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".
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "Loading and tying a camel".
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows grazing sheep.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows camels carrying wheat loads.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows minaret with loud speakers.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "Familiar scene at harvest time".
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows camel loaded with wheat with two persons.
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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".
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows wheat being loaded & tied to camel.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Annotation reads "The camel under his load".
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows camel prepared for loading with wheat.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows land being ploughed.
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Photograph by Ya-akov (Hardwin) Firestone of rural village life in Palestine. Scene shows two camels with harnesses for transporting wheat loads.
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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".
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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".