St Jerome's Tree, c.1900-1920

Title: St Jerome's Tree, c.1900-1920
Description: This is a digital reproduction of an image held in the Library of Congress. The image depicts St Jerome's Tree in the grounds of the Catholic St Catherine's Monastery within the Nativity Church complex in Bethlehem. St Jerome translated scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. The text he produced was the first official vernacular version of the Bible. The image is a cropped version of the original. This image exists as part of the Bethlehem People and Places collection within the Library of Congress project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.
Identifier: pb_lc_bpe_7252217
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Bethlehem People and Places collection; Franciscans in Bethlehem
References: https://www.loc.gov/resource/matpc.05494/
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer
Contributor: American Colony (Jerusalem), Library of Congress
Type: 1 negative : glass, stereograph, dry plate ; 5 x 7 in.
Source: Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction number: LC-DIG-matpc-05494 (digital file from original photo)
Language: English
Spatial Coverage: 31.7053996/ 35.1936877
Rights Holder: Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication.
Date (approximate): c.1900-1920