|"Triumphal arch" in Jerusalem, sometime between 1898 and 1946|
Where? Why? When?
The photo is accompanied by a second photograph with the same caption "Triumphal arch" and the dates of 1898-1946.
|The Emperor's arrival in Jerusalem, riding on his white horse.|
The building on the right is the American Colony's residence.
Note the minaret in this photo and the second "Arch" picture.
View another picture of "The Kaiser in front of our house."
This website has published other photos of events on Nablus Road in a posting "Nablus Road: Where History Marched."
View the "Arch" picture below with other Nablus Road pictures. We have marked in a box a group of houses with distinct roofs in several of the pictures.
Click on the picture to enlarge. Click on the caption to view the original photograph.
|Note the roofs, arch and crooked |
telegraph pole on the left
|"Turkish soldiers marching on Nablus Road past the |
American Colony." Marked are the same arches, roofs and
crooked telegraph poll (between 1898 and 1917)
|Jewish children's procession on Nablus|
Road on Lag B'Omer, 1918. Note the
distinct roofs on the left
|British army towing artillery on Nablus Road|
during World War I (1917-1918)
|The arch built by the Jewish community of Jerusalem (1898) on|
Jaffa Road. View photo essay on the arch here. The Emperor's
arrival was on the Sabbath, but the Jewish community and
its rabbis turned out.