Album Document Trip to the Middle East by Dwight Smith and Edward Waterhouse

Album, Photograph

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1648

Description: Green bound volume, "Book Shelf Scrap Book and Album," by the Educational Press; includes primarily color Poloroid pictures documenting a trip by Dr. Dwight C. Smith of the John Milton Society and Edward J. Waterhouse to the Middle East in late February and early March 1961. It includes pictures of the Victory Club in London; the Coptic School for Blind Boys in Cairo, Egypt; the Institute for Christian Blind Girls in Cairo; the El Karma and Home for Elderly Widows in Cairo; the Hoe for Blind Girls in Jerusalem; general tourist sites in Jerusalem; the Home for Blind Girls in Bethlehem, Palestine; the Home for Blind Boys in Bethlehem; tourist sites in Bethlehem; the Helen Keller House in Bethany; the Nur Ayn School for the Blind in Isfahan, Iran; tourist sites in Isfahan; a visit by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip to Isfahan; the Institute for Armenian Blind and Deaf in Beirut, Lebanon; and a government school in Beirut.

Date: 1961

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24