Najib Albina
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Najib Anton Albina was the Palestinian Arab master photographer of the Palestine Archaeological Museum and, in that position, took the first original sets of photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Throu
From Left to right: Jamil Albina, Najib Albina, and Lewis Larson developing motion picture film in the American Colony, Jerusalem. Circa 1934. Source: Library of Congress.
Lewis Larsson
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Lewis Larsson, was born Hol Lars Larsson in Nås, Sweden–Norway, and served as the de facto head of the Photographic Department of the American Colony in Jerusalem, British Mandate Palestine. Larsson w
Najib Albina
…and relocated to Bethlehem. Najib worked as a darkroom technician and photographer for the photographic division of the American Colony directly under Lewis Larsson from the early 1920s through the mid-1930s. He worked primarily taking and developing film of archaeological sites in the greater Jerusalem area…
Lewis Larsson in American Colony Photo Lab
Tiberias, Palestine, photograph by Lewis Larsson taken between 1898 and 1914. Source: Library of Congress.
An American Colony photography by Lewis Larson of Christmas Services.
An American Colony Hand-coloured photography of a village carpenter.