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Views from Palestine and its Jewish Colonies – Yesha'ayahu Raffalovich, 1899
Views from Palestine and its Jewish Colonies, photographed and described by I. Raffalovich and M. E. Sachs. Jerusalem [printed in Berlin?], 1899.
Booklet of photographs taken during a trip to Eretz Israel which Raffalovich took with his friend Eliyahu (Elijah) Meyers in the year 1898 from Gedera to Metulah, "American Colony" photographer. This booklet was published in the same year in Hebrew as well by Raffalovich and his partner Eliyahu Sachs. The trip followed a request that Raffalovich got to prepare a photo-album with views from Palestine for the Third Zionist Congress in Basel in the following year. English and German. [4] leaves, 58 photograph plates, 25.5X17.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Front cover missing. Tears and stains. Last plate detached and torn.
