SCHOL, Frances.

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Photograph album of a tour in the Middle East. Album with nearly 200 photographs of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon, compiled by a tourist, Frances Schol, in the first decade of the 20th century. It illustrates a typical guided tour for European tourists in early 20th-century Egypt and the Levant.The album opens with Cairo, with images of the museum (built in 1901), street scenes, the Bristol Hotel (where the group was likely staying), the nearby Ezbekieh Gardens, mosques, boats on the Nile, the Sakhara pyramid, and a "view from the top of the Great Pyramid". There are also photos of Ismailia station, the Zagazig racecourse, Port Said, and Alexandria. The journey continues to Palestine, with Jaffa, the now-depopulated Jubb Yusuf, an orphanage in Lod and another of the Church Missionary Society, Ramleh, Bab al-Wad, Jericho, Bethany, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the holy sites in Galilee. The group then visited Trans-Jordan, and the Dead Sea; Syria, with views of Damascus; and Lebanon, with Baalbek and Beirut. Schol is portrayed at the beginning, writing notes aboard a ship. The photos portray many of her travelling companions, including Mr Daintree, Mr Asquith, the Misses Brass, Padwick, and Bartholomew, and two who appear to be William Herbert St Quintin (1851-1933), owner of Scampston Hall in Yorkshire, and likely J. R. Howard MacLean (d. 1947), of Aston Hall, Shropshire. Miss Padwick was perhaps the distinguished Arabist and Islamic scholar Constance E. Padwick (1886-1968

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