Portfolio containing ten aerial photographs of Eretz Israel, by the photographer Zoltan Kluger. Commissioned by Zalman Schocken and gifted by him to friends and well-wishers on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Jerusalem, September 1938.
Each photograph mounted on cardboard with a descriptive label in German on the reverse. The photographs, contained in their original cloth-covered box, show The Old City in Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, the Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv, Haifa Port, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Yehezkel, Moshav Beit-Yossef, Kfar Nahum [Capernaum] and the Jordan River near Jericho. Included are two pages, one with a list of the photographs and the second (missing and provided in facsimile) with a printed greeting from Schocken.
Size of each photo 28.5x23cm. Good condition.