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19 September 2017

SALT

 

SALT

Country: Turkey
Collection Type: Cultural organisation Library Museum Research center
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints Slides (positives)
Website: http://saltonline.org/

SALT comprises an extensive library that focuses on the arts, architecture, design, urbanism, and social and economic history, as well as an archive of physical and digital documents. The archive collections of SALT Research include Contemporary Art Archives, Ottoman Bank Archive, The Archive of Architecture and Design, Italian Embassy Archive, Saint Pierre Archive, World Council of Churches Archive, The Archive of Crete, French Press in the Ottoman Empire, Maps, as well as general photographs, family archives, magazines, newspapers, coins, lists, and plans. The collections includes photographs from the 19th and 20th century related to art, design, architecture and urbanism, and social history. Photographs were acquired by donation, deposit and purchase and the collection is still expanding. Formats include film based negatives, glass negatives and positives, positive prints, digital files, Black and White images and color images. Photographs are available at distance on an electronic database.

Contact Details:
Name: Sinem Ayse Gulmez
Email: sinem.gulmez@saltonline.org ; salt.research@saltonline.org
Address: Bankalar Caddesi, No 11, Karaköy-İstanbul
Tel: +90 0212 334 22 00

 

National Library of Jordan

 

National Library of Jordan

Country: Jordan
Collection Type: Library
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Slides (positives)
Website: http://www.nl.gov.jo

The National Library of Jordan is attached to the Ministry of Culture and works towards the protection and preservation of Jordan’s cultural heritage, with the aim to serve researchers and scholars interested in the cultural and intellectual aspects of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The National Library was created in 1994 from the merger of the Center for Documents and Documentation and the Department of the National Library, itself having replaced the Department of Libraries and National Documents founded in 1977.
The Documents and Photograph Archiving Section within the National Library holds a collection of around 10,000 photos comprised of 17 private collections from the 1860s to the present day, mostly donations. The collections cover primarily Egypt, Palestine, Syria and mostly Jordan; they include Film-based negatives, digital files, positives, and Black and White and color prints.

Contact Details:
Name: Muntaha Ibrahim Al-Diri, Documents & Photo Archiving Section
Email: Muntaha.Al_Diri@nl.gov.jo ; director.g@nl.gov.jo ; aldirimuntaha@yahoo.com
Address: Arjan, Building Number 9 , Haroun Al-Rasheed St. (Opp Ministry of Interior) P.O.Box: (6070) Amman 11118
Tel: +962 6 5662 791/819/845/854/748/871/758

 

National Library and Archives of Iran

 

National Library and Archives of Iran

Country: Iran
Collection Type: Library State agency/ Ministry
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints
Website: http://old.nlai.ir/Default.aspx?alias=old.nlai.ir/en

The National Archives and Library of Iran is Iran’s largest research center, housed in a extensive complex in Haqqani and Mirdamad in Tehran, as well as a number of branches around Tehran. The Archives also have satellite branches in provincial cities. The Archives and Library hold a vast number of textual and visual sources, including over 1.7 million books, in addition to over one million dissertations, manuscripts, photographs, and other documents.

The National Archives of Iran is the main official authority responsible for the collection, preservation, processing, and information dissemination of documents of national and historical importance. Its photograph collection consists of over 32,000 photographs ranging from glass plate negatives and positives, positive prints and black and white images.

The collection is available for researchers.

Contact Details:
Address:
National Library: Tehran, Shahid Haghani Highway, after the Haghani Metro Stop.
National Archives: Tehran, Mirdamad Blvd, before Madar Square, at the end of Shahid Behzad Hesari (S. Razan) St.

 

Koç University Suna Kıraç Library

 

Koç University Suna Kıraç Library

Country: Turkey
Collection Type: Library University
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Digital files Film-based negatives Prints Slides (positives)
Website: http://library.ku.edu.tr

Koç University Suna Kıraç Library was founded in 1993 as a non-profit private university in Istanbul. Its recently established library and photo-archive was created after the donation of the late Turkish-American art historian Esin Atil (1938- ) and ethnographer Josephine Powell (1919-2007). The library’s archive includes rare books and manuscripts collections in addition to a photographic collection of more than 50,000 images of various types, such as film-based negatives, slides, prints as well as digital files, all acquired by donation and dating mostly from the 1960s. The collection of slides date from 1960s to 2000s and vary in size, 5×4 and 5×6. In addition to this, printed photographs are also featured, illustrating Koç’s University history since its foundation. The collection is still expanding and is partially digitzed and catalogued on a database, and a portion is accessible online.
Koç’s University library is currently working on digitizing the rich and recently acquired collection, the Hittite collection, which will appear online soon.

Contact Details:
Name: Huseyin Eski / Tuba Akbayturk Canak
Email: HESKI@ku.edu.tr / TAKBAYTURK@ku.edu.tr
Address: Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul
Tel: +90 212 3381222

Other:
Further online access to collections: http://digitalcollections.library.ku.edu.tr/cdm/

 

Institute for Palestine Studies

 

Institute for Palestine Studies

Country: Lebanon
Collection Type: Library Research center
Collection Size: 1,000-10,000
Period: 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Slides (positives)
Website: http://www.palestine-studies.org

The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is a private, independent, non-profit organization, established in Beirut in 1963. It is dedicated to documentation, research, analysis, and publication on Palestinian affairs, as well as the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The IPS began seriously collecting photographs in the early 1970s as a vital part of the cultural heritage and historical record of the Palestinian people. IPS is particularly proud to have amassed an archive in which photographs by Palestinians predominate.

Together, the various IPS collections total over 10,000 photos, many of them historical and unique, constituting a precious resource for those interested not only in the history of Palestine but also in the history of photography. The collections span the late 19th century to recent times, but by far the richest holdings are from the pre-1948 period. The subject matter ranges from Palestinian daily life (occupational, cultural, and leisure pursuits of all classes and population groups), through landscape and architecture, to military, public, and political activities and events. The some 400 photographs showcased in Walid Khalidi’s classic Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948 (first published in 1984) were all selected from the various IPS collections. With regard to the post-1948 period, the photographs cover in particular life in refugee camps, the 1967 war, and periods of the Lebanese civil war, including the 1982 Israeli invasion. The collections came to IPS by donation or purchase.

The most important of the IPS collections is that of Khalil Raad, comprising some 3,000 photographs dating from the late 19th century to the eve of the 1948 war. Acquired from Khalil Raad’s family in 1978, it constitutes the photographer’s own personal archive and is the largest collection of his work in existence. The photographs portray all aspects of Palestinian life, urban and rural, from the Ottoman to the late Mandate period, as well as landscapes, towns, and villages, religious and archeological monuments, portraits of prominent personalities (especially political and religious figures), and religious and public event.

Another important collection is the Jawhariyah collection, containing seven albums of photographs (around 859 photographs) carefully selected over a period of decades by the Palestinian musician and memoirist, Wasif Jawhariyah, and seven corresponding notebooks describing the photos, covering the photographic history of Palestine during the late Ottoman and British mandate periods.

Other holdings include: the IPS Photo collection, comprising 469 photographs, mostly from 1900 to 1948, donated to IPS by various individuals, families, and institutions; the PLO collection, comprising 107 photographs from the PLO Information and Culture Department from the period 1920-1948; the Fifth of June Society collection with 185 photographs by Khalil Raad covering the period 1900-1945; the Imperial War Museum collection, which contains around 202 photographs, and covers the period of the British mandate in Palestine; the Eric Matson collection, which includes around 229 photographs of Palestine under the British mandate originating from Jerusalem’s American Colony hotel and purchased by IPS from the U.S. Library of Congress; the Husayni collection, which contains around 55 photographs given to IPS by Hajj Amin al-Husayni, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, depicting the Mufti both in Palestine and during visits abroad; the UNRWA collection, comprising around 630 photographs given to IPS by UNRWA and showing the refugee camps in the early years, from the late 1940s into the 1950s; the Arif al-Arif collection, consisting of 412 photographs mainly relating to the 1967 war, including the Palestinian exodus it triggered and scenes of destruction; and the IPS photo archives, comprising some 3,500 photographs from various sources (e.g. the United Nations, PLO, news agencies) amassed by IPS over the years of pre-1948 Palestine, the June 1967 war (including military action, destruction, and Security Council meetings), and Israel’s attack on Jordan in 1968.

The collection is housed at the IPS Library in Beirut. It is catalogued and available on an internal electronic database, with plans to make the collection accessible on the website. The collection has been featured in journals including Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyah, Jerusalem quarterly and Journal of Palestine Studies, and in publications such as Family Papers: Social modern history studies of Palestine, and British Mandate Jerusalem in the Jawhariyah Memories.

Contact Details:
Beirut Office
Name: Jeannette Sarouphim / Mirna Kalash Itani
Email: library@palestine-studies.org / archives@palestine-studies.org
Address: Anis Nsouli Street, Verdun P.O. Box 11-7164 Beirut 1107 2230 Lebanon
Tel: +961 1 868387 / 814175 / 804959

Ramallah Office
Name: Sally Abu Bakr
Email: sallyabubakr@gmail.com
Address: 19 Emile Habibi Street, 4th flr. Al-Masion, Ramallah P.O. Box Ramallah 487
Tel: +9702 or +9722 2989108

 

Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation

 

Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation

Country: Egypt
Collection Type: Library State agency/ Ministry
Collection Size: 1,000-10,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960
Type of Material & Format: Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints
Website: http://www.mwri.gov.eg/

The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation manages the water resource projects at the state level and monitors all water resources in Egypt.The Ministry (first in Egypt) dates to 1836, and holds a collection dating from the 19th century up to at least 1960s documenting the ministry’s projects.

The collection consists of approximately 360 albums, 24 albums of aerial surveys, together comprising 84 specific collections, and more than 2000 photographs. It also includes a small collection from Saad Zaghloul.

It is open to the public upon permission

Contact Details: Name: Saber Ahmed Saber / Shaimaa Sobhy Ibrahim (Information Specialist)
Email: saber_masx@yahoo.com, Libr@mwri.gov.eg, shaimaa_si@yahoo.com
Address: NWRC, Fum Ismailia Canal, PO BOX 74 Shoubra El-Kheima, 13411, Cairo, Egypt
Tel: (202) 4218-9535, 4218-8250

Other: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/تراث-وتاريخ-الري-فى-مصر-MWRI-Central-Library-1516235405280906/?pnref=story

 

Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Française

 

Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Française

Country: Palestine
Collection Type: Library Research center
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints Slides (positives)
Website: http://www.ebaf.edu

The Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Française (EBAF) was founded in 1890 by religious friars of the St Stephen’s convent led by Father Marie-Joseph Lagrange in Palestine. In addition to its primary mission in the field of biblical studies and archeology, the EBAF extends its scope to related disciplines such as history and geography of the Near East, ‘oriental’ languages, and connected documentation activities.

It holds an archive of 19th century photography, with many of the collections having direct relevance to the school’s archaeological pedagogy. The original holdings relate mainly to the fieldtrips carried out by the school in the broader Near-East region. It comprises around 18,000 glass plates in various sizes, of which two-thirds are negatives, and the rest mostly positive duplicates. These include stereoscopic views and rare autochromes. There are few prints from the glass plate negatives, although contact sheets exist for half the collection, which also includes albumen prints from pre-1914 commercial collections such as Bonfils.

The original holdings were enriched by three deposits: 1,600 glass plates from the French Assumptionist fathers dating back to 1896 and donated by the Notre-Dame Center of Jerusalem; 700 medium-format contact prints from a Spanish Dominican priest dating back to his time as a student at the school in 1929-31; 550 stereoscopic negatives dating from 1908-1909; and more recently, 2,200 scans from the White Fathers (Pères-Blancs) of Saint-Anne Monastery in the Old City of Jerusalem, including scans of 705 glass plates; 1,700 scans from the Jesuits of the Biblical Pontifical Institute, Jerusalem; and around 350 scans from the Italian Salesians from Beit Jimal (Palestine).

The contemporary holdings from the last 30 years contain thousands of film negatives in 35mm or medium format, as well as colour slides. These come mainly from the archeological surveys carried out by the school, and the trend has been to document endangered archeological and historical sites.

EBAF’s holdings are fully catalogued and accessible to researchers on appointment. The collection has been fully scanned, and there are plans for an online database. There are also cooperation arrangements in place with other churches in Jerusalem to help digitize their collections.

The EBAF collection has been the subject of many exhibitions in the region and in Europe, as well as several books: Distant Jerusalem, Holy City; Photographies d’Arabie: Hedjaz 1907-1917; Al-Quds al-Sharif, Patrimoine musulman de la Vieille Ville de Jérusalem: Photographies 1890-1925; Souvenirs d’Orient; Jerusalem: A Principios Del Siglo XX, Patrimonio y Cultura; Pilgrims to Makkah 1908; Itineraires Bibliques; The Empire and the Kingdom: Jordan as seen by the École biblique et archéologique francaise de Jérusalem (1893-1935); Jérusalem et la Palestine à travers la collection photographique de l’Ecole biblique de Jérusalem (directed by Elias Sanbar, ed. Hazan, Paris, 2013). More recent exhibitions, with printed catalogues, include: Chateaubriand, itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem à travers les photographies de l’Ecole biblique de Jérusalem (Paris, 2013); Chrétiens d’Orient (Paris, 2014); Gerusalemme fotografata. Immagini d’all’archivio dell’Ecole biblique et archéologique française di Gerusalemme 1870-1935 (Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, 2014).

Contact Details: Name: Père Jean-Michel de Tarragon
Email: tarragon@ebaf.edu
Tel: +972 2 626 44 68
Address: 6 Nablus Rd., East Jerusalem
Other website: www.ebaf.info

 

Bibliothèque Orientale – Université Saint-Joseph

 

Bibliothèque Orientale – Université Saint-Joseph

Country: Lebanon
Collection Type: Library University
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Slides (positives)
Website: http://www.bo.usj.edu.lb/

Founded in 1875, along with the university Université Saint-Joseph (USJ), the Bibliothèque Orientale is a cultural, scientific and patrimonial space for exploration and research in the field of Oriental studies. Since its creation, several collections were put together by Jesuit scholars of the Université Saint-Joseph. The institution’s mission is the preservation of the collection, internal (USJ) research, exhibitions, publications of the material and improving accessibility by cataloging and digitizing. Conservation and restoration workshops are conducted since 2000 in order to preserve these precious funds.
A photograph library of around 50,000 photographic documents groups several collections, including the Poidebard fund, a Jesuit father and pioneer in aerial archeology. The collection dates from late 19th century to the mid 20th century, with the majority of the material from the period between the two World Wars. Photographs were taken as working instruments by the Jesuit archeologists or for documenting of missions and special interests.
Since 2000, the photograph collection has been featured in many exhibitions and publications published by Presses de l’USJ, for instance Portraits photographiques d’Orient (by the Jesuits, Lévon Nordiguian and May Semaan Seigneurie). It is available to the public by appointment.

Contact Details:
Name: Levon Nordiguian
Email: lnordiguian@usj.edu.lb
Address: Saint-Joseph University, Damascus Road – BP 17-5208 Mar Mikhaël
Beirut 1104-2020 – Lebanon
Tel: +961 (1) 421 000

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