Underwood & Underwood

Arctic explorers, preparing for the long winter - historic Cape Sabine and Baffin Bay (79 deg. N. lat.)

Interior of Fort Magnesia, Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land - winter visitors who accepted our hospitality

Dr. Leopold Kann, the Arctic explorer, in his winter quarters, Ellesmere Land

"Fort Magnesia" during winter - deeply buried in snow - Cape Sabine (79 deg. N. lat.), Ellesmere Land

"Fort Magnesia" during winter - deeply buried in snow - Cape Sabine (79 deg. N. lat.), Ellesmere Land

Coming out of a snow-covered "igloo" - a winter home in the Artics - Ellesmere Land

The most primitive reeling tools for silk thread, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

A skillful Arab weaver and his primitive loom weaving the finest of Syrian silk

Es Salt from the South - a town of Peraea still full of homes and business

Deadening worms in silk cocoons by steam, Antioch, Syria

Cooling and drying silk cocoons after deadening process, Antioch, Syria

Loosening cocoon fiber and winding on frames, silk mill, Beyrout, Syria

Experts purchasing silk cacoons [i.e., cocoons], for export to France, Antioch, Syria

A basket full of wriggling silk worms hungry for the morning meal, Syria

Feeding silk-worms their breakfast of mulberry leaves, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

Boiling cocoons to loosen fibre ends in Syria's largest silk reeling plant, Mt. Lebanon

In a Syrian silk plant; examining and weighing raw silk ready for export

Yanûn, the probable Janohah of the Bible (Josh. xvi : 6, 7), Palestine

The fields of Moab (where the Moabish Stone was found), N. at old Dibon, Syria

Making bread in a Bedouin tent; fire under inverted bowl does baking, Syria

Gaza, lowland stronghold of the Philistines, from the southeast, Palestine

Hatching silk cocoons on mulberry branches (near view), Antioch, Syria

The Christian hospital on the shore of Galilee; the sea where Christ healed so many, Tiberias, Palestine

An oriental home with its large upper chamber, near Jaffa, Palestine

A Persian camp of pilgrims to Mecca, Jaffa, Palestine

Calesthenics at Miss Arnot's Mission, Jaffa, Palestine

Beautiful little church of the Syrian Christians, Jerusalem, Palestine

The splendid crusaders' chapel over the tomb of St. George, Lydda, Palestine

Crude makers of beautiful goods; making the famous inlaid pearl work, Damascus, Syria

A sword maker of Damascus, whose swords were once considered the finest in the world, Syria