| Tancrède Dumas Southern Theatre, Jerash [American Palestine Exploration Society] 1875 Albumen print 28 x 36 cm Harvard Fine Arts Library Special Collections, AKP185 Arc 495.10 LL/41602 The American Palestine Exploration Society was founded in New York in 1870 as a privately funded society for archaeological and geographic exploration of the Holy Land. A forerunner of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the organization conducted its second expedition to the Holy Land in 1875 and hired French photographer TancrÞde Dumas, who owned a studio in Beirut, to accompany the expedition.
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