ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Frontispiece: Corridor, south wing, Palestine Archaeological Museum, from a photo album compiled by Austen St. Barbe Harrison: Israel Antiquities Authority Archive, SRF 104.
Turkish clock tower, Jaffa Gate: American Colony Photographers, from the G. Eric and Edith Matson Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
British clock tower, Allenby Square: Matson Collection.
“The Jaffa Road as it is”: Papers of Charles Robert Ashbee, King’s College, Cambridge, England 21/4/11, by permission of the Ashbee estate.
“The Jaffa Road Market as I want it to be”: CRA KC 21/4/11, by permission of the Ashbee estate.
Erich Mendelsohn at one of the Schocken sites, Rehavia: photographer unknown, by permission of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Construction site of the Einstein Tower, Potsdam, 1921: bpk, Berlin/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek/© Heddenhausen & Wieß/Art Resource, NY.
Universum Cinema: Arthur Köster, “Erich Mendelsohn: Universum-Kino (Woga Komplex), Kurfürstendamm/Lehniner Platz, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1928/© 2015 Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Schocken department store, Stuttgart: © Landesmedienzentrum, Baden-Württemberg.
Am Rupenhorn interior, with mural by Amédée Ozenfant: Arthur Köster, Neues Haus, Neue Welt (Berlin, 1932)/© 2015 ARS, NY/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Erich Mendelsohn at Karnak: from Regina Stephan, ed., Erich Mendelsohn: Wesen Werk Wirkung (Ostfildern, 2006).
Nazi postcard of the Weissenhofsiedlung as an Arab village: published in Schwäbisches Heimatbuch, reproduced in Richard Pommer and Christian F. Otto, Weissenhof 1927 and the Modern Movement in Architecture (Chicago, 1991).
Envelope addressed by Erich Mendelsohn in Jerusalem to Luise in Cairo, December 15, 1934: bpk, Berlin/Kunstbibliothek/© Daria Joseph/Art Resource, NY.
Imaginary sketch from the Russian Front, 1917: bpk, Berlin/Kunstbibliothek/© Daria Joseph/Art Resource, NY.
Windmill, Ramban Street, Rehavia: photographer unknown, by permission of the Getty Research Institute.
Luise at the windmill: from “Three Photos of Luise Mendelsohn,” Getty Research Institute © Daria Joseph.
Schocken Villa, aerial view: courtesy of the Schocken Institute, Jerusalem.
“Rembrandt window,” Schocken Library: courtesy of the Schocken Institute.
Staircase at the Schocken Library: courtesy of the Schocken Institute.
The Mendelsohns’ Jerusalem curfew pass, issued July 9, 1936: by permission of the Getty Research Institute.
Hadassah Medical Complex construction sign: courtesy of the Hebrew University Archive.
Palace Hotel, Mamilla: Matson Collection.
Erich Mendelsohn, sketch of mortuary chapel, Hadassah Hospital: bpk, Berlin/Kunstbibliothek/reproduction photo by Deitmar Katz/© Daria Joseph/Art Resource, NY.
“The breasts of the building” (Hadassah) in progress: Matson Collection.
Geddes and Mears’s design for the Hebrew University’s Great Hall, on a postcard with Einstein and Weizmann, and a quote from Isaiah 11:9: “The earth will be full of knowledge”: from David Kroyanker, ed., Dreamscapes: Unbuilt Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1992).
Erich Mendelsohn’s university clubhouse: courtesy of the Hebrew University Archive.
Erich Mendelsohn’s Anglo-Palestine Bank, Jaffa Road: Matson Collection.
Harrison’s post office and Mendelsohn’s bank (under construction), Jaffa Road, c. 1938: Matson Collection.
Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus, completed: courtesy of the Hebrew University Archive.
The Archaeological Advisory meeting room, Palestine Archaeological Museum: courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority Archive. (All other photos from this collection are labeled IAA.)
Austen Harrison with his dog, Bogie, in Jerusalem: IAA.
Palestine Pavilion, Wembley: supplement to The Palestine Weekly, September 5, 1924.
David Bomberg on the roof of the Banco di Roma, Jerusalem: unknown photographer, reproduction © Tate, London, 2015.
David Bomberg’s Mount Zion with the Church of the Dormition: Moonlight, 1923: courtesy of the Ben Uri Gallery, London © 2015 ARS/DACS, London.
Government House ballroom: IAA.
Government House door with ornaments: IAA.
Government House fireplace: IAA.
Government House drawing room from above: IAA.
Government House with Union Jack: IAA.
Austen Harrison, letter to James Henry Breasted, September 16, 1927, with sketch of the museum: courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (OI).
Sketch and photo of a tomb at Karm ash-Sheikh: IAA.
“The Scrollery” at the museum: IAA.
Crowd at the ceremony of the laying of the museum’s foundation stone, June 19, 1930: OI, photographed by the American Colony Photographers, by permission of the American Colony.
Austen Harrison looking miserable at the ceremony. In the foreground are the high commissioner, John Chancellor, and his wife, Elsie; E. T. Richmond is speaking; Edward Keith-Roach, the district commissioner, is holding his hat. Harrison is sitting in the back corner, looking down: OI, photographed by the American Colony Photographers, by permission of the American Colony.
Ceramic model of the museum: IAA.
Columns of the museum’s library, in progress: IAA.
Eric Gill’s preliminary sketch of the Roman bas-relief for the museum courtyard: courtesy of the Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Eric Gill carving at the museum; the caption is Harrison’s: IAA.
Finished Gill panels: Assyria, Greece, Phoenicia: IAA.
Gill’s “Mind the Step” from the museum’s central court: photographed by the author, August 2014.
Finished museum and field: IAA.
Palestine Department of Antiquities, Arabic, English, Hebrew: photographed by the author, August 2014.
Jerusalem street sign, made by David Ohannessian: from the exhibition catalog The First Governor, ed. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa (Tel Aviv, 2010), by permission of a private collector. Reproduction photo Leonid Padrul © Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
The al-Araj House, on what was Queen Melisande Way and is now Haleni Hamalka Street: photographed by the author, November 2012.
Spyro G. Houris stone signature: photographed by the author, July 2014.
Ad from Doar Hayom: November 17, 1919.
Spyro Houris: from David Kroyanker, Talbiyeh, Katamon, and the Greek Colony (Jerusalem, 2002).
The Vagabonds, sitting: Khalil Sakakini, Achille Seikaly, Adel Jaber; standing: George Khamees, Hanna Hamameh, Musa Alami, Anton Elias Muchabek. Photographed by Khalil Raad: courtesy of the Institute for Palestine Studies, Ramallah, Theodorie Collection.
Dr. Photios with Heleni and Clio: courtesy of Zalman Greenberg.
Ad from Doar Hayom: June 14, 1932.
The Hamon House, Romema, soon after it was built.
Judge Yom-Tov Hamon and his children, on the porch of the house that Spyro Houris built for them in Romema.
The Khoury House (site of Houris’s office?), with the Aminof House under construction in the background, Jaffa Road: Matson Collection.
The Hajj Mahmud House, Jaffa Road 222, as it was soon after its construction: Matson Collection.
The Hajj Mahmud House: photographed by the author, July 2014.
The Gelat Villa, Talbiyeh: photographed by the author, August 2014.
Dome of the Rock: Matson Collection.
E. T. Richmond, pages from his memoir Liber Maiorum: courtesy of Emma Shackle and Sophie Richmond.
C. R. Ashbee in Jerusalem, 1919: CRA KC 1/44/356, by permission of the Ashbee estate.
David Ohannessian: IAA.
Armenian girls painting at the Dome of the Rock Pottery: Matson Collection.
Ronald Storrs and an Ohannessian Dome of the Rock; the inscription is Ashbee’s: CRA KC 1/47/043, by permission of the Ashbee estate.
The al-Araj House and sky: photographed by the author, November 2012.
Heleni Efklides, Talbiyeh, 1930s: courtesy of Alex Corfiatis, Anastos Damianos, and the Greek community of West Jerusalem.