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| The American "Colony" in the 1860s. Please help us obtain such pictures in high-resolution digitized form |
On occasion, however, we have skipped certain collections because of requests for payment.
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| Photograph of the colony founder, George Jones Adams, c. 1841 |
(Our research found that Mark Twain met some of the members of the failed colony and wrote about them.)
Unfortunately, the photographs can only be obtained in digitized high-resolution with payment. In one case, a small American museum contains documents and photographs, and images must be purchased. In the case of the Library of Congress, which has been amazingly cooperative in releasing their photographs, the photograph described below has never been digitized.
Title: The American Settlement, near Joppa, Palestine. Erected by the Adams Colony from Maine and New Hampshire, 1866-7
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ReplyDeleteMost of Adams colony left back to rthe US on the "Quaker City", The steam ship that Mark Twain came on, so on rout to Egypt he had the acquaintance of some of the members. One of that Families that stayed behind was Rolla Floyd who later became t6he main Dargoman (Tour guide) for Thomas Cook Travels. In his memoirs, R. Floyd claimed he "Guided Mark Twain during his travels on horse back from Beirut to Jerusalem (Sep. 1867), a false claim of taking credit for the trip. He mentioned that once Twain became famous, but during the time (1867) R. Floyd had not yet become a Dragoman. Interesting anecdote of a guide taking credit for a guiding a celebrity tour he did not really do. Go prove...
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