Lot 101
Collection of Photographs from Palestine - Early British Mandate Period
About 70 photographs from Palestine and surroundings. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Nazareth, Jericho, Ramla, Nablus and other places. [Late 1910s / ca. early 1920s].
The photographs depict: The Ottoman Clock Tower in Jaffa Gate, Russian Church of Ascension, Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, Jewish figures in Jerusalem, market in Ramla, girls carrying water jugs on their heads in Nazareth, a donkey turning a water pumping wheel, sweet water channel for watering a palm tree grove, barrel-bridge on the Jordan river, as well as mosques and sites in Damascus, Cairo, Alexandria and other places.
Photographs are titled on verso in handwriting (in pencil, English) and apparently were taken by a British soldier during the early days of British Mandate.
Total of about 70 photographs, most of them approx. 11X7 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases. Few photographs with tears or open tears. Some photographs are faded.
