Caption
View of Ramla in Israel, Ramallah and surrounding land, seen from a tower (former title), Rameleh, vue générale prise de la tour, photograph, View of Ramla with the Plain of Sharon and the Mountains of Judea, in the foreground an Islamic cemetery. Part of Travel Album with photographs of Jerusalem and other biblical places., negative number: '241bis', photographer: Maison Bonfils, Ramallah, c. 1867 - c. 1895, Palestine, pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 225 mm x width 283 mm, prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city, Ramla, A sepia-toned aerial view shows a broad landscape with a foreground of rocky, uneven ground marked by winding dirt paths and scattered stone markers forming small rectangular shapes, some grouped and some isolated; patches of low vegetation and occasional trees dot the area. In the middle distance a belt of darker trees and denser foliage separates the foreground from a low-lying town of light-colored buildings with flat and pitched roofs, among which a tall slender tower and a few other vertical structures rise above the rooftops. Beyond the town the land stretches flat toward a distant, pale horizon beneath a wide, pale sky.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B10_123
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