This essay is Part 2 to a previous posting on weapons found at the Dead Sea from the Israel Daily Pictures (IDP) website. To see other related photographic material from the Library of Congress, visit IsraelDailyPicture.com [1]. For a free subscription, visit IsraelDailyPicture.com [1].
Last week we posted a feature (Thu, July 5, 2012 [2]) on the origins of a cache of antique German weapons found recently at the Dead Sea. The posting showed pictures of a World War I Turkish naval base and abandoned Turkish defense lines at the Dead Sea.
Turkish delegation [3] received at Dead Sea dock (1916)
The Turks’ “Dead Sea Flotilla [4]” (1917)
As evidenced in these American Colony-Library of Congress album pictures, the Dead Sea was a major supply route for the Turkish army between eastern and western Palestine, particularly after Britain and its allies blockaded Mediterranean ports.
Towing wheat barges [5] on the Dead Sea (1917)
Camel train carrying grain [6] from the Dead Sea to Jerusalem (1917)
Shipping grain [7] from the south end of the Dead Sea to the north. No roads connected the north and south parts of the Dead Sea shores