Lot 119
Album of Photographs - Alliance Israélite Universelle in Baghdad, 1932
Alliance Israélite Universelle. Album presented as a gift to friends of Alliance Israélite Universelle ("Alliance") to commemorate 50 years of the official recognition in the educational institutes of the organization, Baghdad. 1932. French and some Arabic.
Album with 66 photographs dedicated to the educational institutes of Alliance Israélite Universelle in Baghdad. The photographs, mounted on the album leaves, portray key figures in the Baghdadi Jewish community, group photographs from the various educational institutes ("Sassoon" and "Nuriel" schools for boys and "Lora Kaduri" and "Noam" schools for girls), and are accompanied by detailed captions in French. A dedication and the ink-stamp of "Lora Kaduri" school in Baghdad appear on the title page, dated June 1932 (date of issue of the album).
Average size of photographs: 11.5X16 cm. Good condition. Some stains to album leaves. Album: 25.5X32.5 cm, bound with a string. Slight defects and tears at corners and margins of binding.
