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Lot 140

Photo-Album – Kevutzat Alonim, Army Life and Family Photographs – 1940s

Leather bound photo-album with about 186 photographs of life in Alonim, photographs of military life and family photographs. On the title appears a photograph, inscribed: "For a year of victory, peace and creation! Kevutzat Alonim". Among the family photographs is one inscribed in German on the reverse "Tel-Aviv, autumn 1946, Zadek" and names of the photographed; an additional photograph inscribed on the reverse (German) "in the garden, Kibutz 1949" and two photographs of a soldier in uniform. In the center of the binding – a copper relief of Rachel's Tomb.
[36] leaves, about 186 photographs, approx. 23X17 cm. Album in poor condition. All of the leaves are detached and the tissue guards are falling apart. Worn binding. Photographs in good condition.