Lot 138
Assortment of Postcards – Letters Sent to the German Colony in Haifa – Early 20th Century
Assortment of postcards, printed by various publishers. Some were sent or received by deaconesses in the German colony of Haifa. Ca. early 20th century.
The lot comprises 58 postcards, including:
• Postcards sent to the deaconess Elisabeth Schubert, with short handwritten letters (German): postcards sent to the German colony in Haifa, from Safed, Beirut, Haifa, and Jerusalem; postcards sent to Rome, a postcard sent from Haifa to Safed, and more (ca. 1910-1915.) • Postcards sent by Elisabth Schubert in the German colony in Haifa, to family members in Siegen in Westfalen (1910-1913). • Postcard sent from Safed to the deaconess Pauline Bartholomäi in the German colony in Haifa. • Three postcards sent to Thea Beel, by a reserve soldier in the height of World War I – two field postcards, and one German Red Cross postcard (1915-1916). • Real-photo postcard – a group of nuns in Strasbourg. Handwritten caption on verso (German). • Divided-back postcards, by different publishers, including: Joh, Wagner (Nazareth, ) Struve & Beck (Haifa, ) Pierre Michelle & Fils (Bethlehem and Jerusalem, ) Terzis (Bethlehem and Jerusalem, ) and postcards of the "Kolonialkriegerdank, " published by F. Bruckmann (Munich.) Color postcards (illustrations and photographs, ) and black and white postcards, depicting views and sites in Palestine – Jerusalem, Haifa, the Sea of Galilee, and more.
• Some Real Photo postcards, depicting Haifa and Mt. Carmel, the Templer colony Bethlehem of Galilee, group picture of soldiers and nurses (nuns?), and more.
• Two undivided postcards: a photograph of Palmyra in Syria, and a panoramic photograph of Constantinople (published by Max Fruchtermann).
Postmarks and postage stamps (mostly Ottoman and German) on some of the postcards.
Some postcards are placed in an album.
Size and condition vary.
