Thursday, April 27, 2006

More and more old precious pictures from Jordan ....

Aqaba's Fort from outside, Photos taken by T. E. Lawrence at the time of the capture of Aqaba
The capture of Aqaba.... one century ago!
Now this is a very rare picture!

Prince Abdullah (who later became King Abdullah the First) with Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the British colonies, at the Jerusalem Conference, March 1921; the photo shows Mrs Churchill, Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner of Palestine, Mrs. Samuel, General Ghaleb Pasha Sha'alan, Colonel Fu'ad Sleem, and Colonel Aref Al-Hassan.

You could identify King Abdullah with his Hattah and Churchill with his eyes!
The only train in Jordan!


Late King Hussien's own signature on this card, you can buy it on ebay for only four thusand dollars.
The Roman Theatre one century ago, it's difficult to tell which one is this, the one in amman or the one in Jerash, any idea?? Time Magazine- 1956. I just bought this magazine for ten dollars!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice pictures hareeeeeaga ...good that u still alive coz ur the only 1 fe jordan planet elee jad BTDA7KNEE ..

Dar said...

#ala rasi abu el 7arayeg , bs men wein ya a5i u get those pix ?
CheeerZ!

Anonymous said...

ma elo saneh ya dar b7keelak mn ebay !!

Anonymous said...

My guess would be that picture is of downtown Amman's theater. This is based mostly on the perspective it's taken from-- Jerash has a hill across the street on the "modern portion" of town, but I don't think it's as close or as tall as Jabal al-qala' in Amman

Anonymous said...

walak sho estak sayer t3'eeb kteer sho sayer m3k ?

Hareega said...

salam.. i'll write about these magazines soon (i also have one following the 1967 war)\

Dar... ebay and the internet.

Rebecca thanx a lot for the clarification

omar said...

this is pretty interesing,
wallahi 3an jadd entry momte33

I envy you for having this Time magazine, hopefully I'd find one!

omar

Hareega said...

keeo checking ebay u'll find one man, also they're found in the university of jordan library

omar said...

Lageat wa7deh,
Whoohoo -- Bass I am still asking about the shipment to London! I found nothing in the UK eBay...

omar