Lot 90
Collection of Photographs - Important Families of "First Aliyah" - Early 20th Century
34 portrait photographs of members of the families Feinberg, Hankin and Belkind. Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo and St. Petersburg (most photographs from Jaffa), early 20th century.
The collection includes: four photographs of Zila Feinberg Shoham (1894-1988, young sister of Avshalom Feinberg); two photographs of Tanhum Hankin (1875-1974), one of Hadera founders, brother of Yehoshua Hankin); photograph of Olga Belkind Hankin (1852-1974, midwife, wife of Yehoshua Hankin); three photographs of Yemima Belkind (1891-1969, teacher, one of the founders of school for Jaffa deportees in Alexandria); photograph of Sonia (Alexandra) Belkind (1870-1943, first gynecologist in Palestine); and more.
Five photographs are dedicated (by hand, on verso) to Yemima Belkind, from family members and various personalities.
Photographs are mounted on cardboard cards, with different ink-stamps (stamped and embossed): A Soskin & G Bruck [Avraham Soskin]; D. Sabungi; Well & Well; "Photographia Zalmon"; and other ink stamps.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and defects.
