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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to Christianity
Overview
2Jesus Christ (4-6 BCE-30-36 CE)
3The Shroud of Turin
4Christianity
5The Last Supper
Architecture
6Christian architecture
Locations
7Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo
8Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
9Jerusalem: Garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives
10Italy: Rome: St. Peter's and the Vatican
11The Cedars of Lebanon
Occupations and vocations
12Popes
13Priests, monks, bishops, pilgrims, missionaries, penitents, churchwardens and holy men
14Nuns
15Christian missionaries
Photography as Biblical evidence
16George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859)
17H.H. Kitchener: Photographs of Biblical Sites (1875)
18American Palestine Exploration Society
19Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
20Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
21Palestine Exploration Fund
Stereoview series on the Bible
22Introduction to stereoviews illustrating the Bible
23EH: La Bible Illustrée [Series, stereoview tissues]
24LL: L'Ancien Testament [Series]
25BK: La Vie de Jesus [Series]
26BK: L'Evangile Illustre [Series]
27Armand Noyer: Vie du Christ (Life of Christ) [Series]
28SIP: Bible
29Stereoviews: Diableries
Missionary work
30Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904)
31Alonzo Bunker: Burma: Stereoscopic Views
32Lantern slides of Uganda (ca. 1890s)
33Johannes Emanuel Bræstrup: Missionary in the Congo (1921-1953)
Evolution and the Bible
34Evolution and the Biblical flood
Photographers
35Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843)
36Francis Frith: The Holy Bible (1862-1863)
37Francis Frith: Canterbury
38Henri Le Secq: Premier Cahier de lithophotographie (1853)
39Frederick H. Evans: Cathedrals
40Detroit Publishing Co.: France: Lourdes
41Eugène Atget: Churches of Paris - L'Eglises de Paris [Portfolio]
42F. Holland Day: The Seven Words
43Walker Evans: Churches
Photomicrographs of Christian texts
44Christianity and photomicrographs
45W. & F. Langenheim: The Lord's Prayer
Significant events
46Menu de communion d'Adolphe Verspreeuwen
47Baptism
Passion plays
48Erinnerung an Oberammergau 1890 (Souvenir of Oberammergau 1890)
Christmas and New Year Greetings
49Christmas and New Year Greetings

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