Aece Hage

Aece Hage (active 1890s) was an immigrant merchant from Ottoman Palestine who by the mid-1890s had established himself in Boston as the proprietor of a shop on Federal Street. He was part of the early wave of Levantine immigrants who entered American urban retail trades while maintaining strong cultural and commercial ties to their homelands. Hage is remembered for sponsoring and distributing a large chromolithographic bird’s-eye view of Jerusalem, produced in Boston around 1896. The print, notable for its dense pictorial detail and multilingual captions, circulated widely enough to attract the attention of both U.S. and Russian publishers. A modified version was issued circa 1900 by Rand McNally, and additional Russianized editions were issued in Odessa in subsequent years.