Abstract
In 1983 the Harvard Semitic Museum (founded in 1889‘to promote sound knowledge of Semitic languages and history’) launched an extensive three‐year project to save scattered visual records of the monuments and life of the Middle East. Placed under the patronage of His Majesty Fahd Ibn Abdul‐Aziz Al‐Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, the project is aimed at the safeguard of endangered photograph collections and their assemblage and copying as an archival record to be shared internationally. Among the publications already made is a collection of twelve posters based on nineteenth‐century photographs sponsored by Unesco's International Fund for the Promotion of Culture. In this article the Harvard Semitic Museum's director explores this fascinating rediscovered world.
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