Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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![Photographs of the Holy Land, by photographer F. Vester, Jerusalem: American Colony, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Album w](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/073.jpg "American Colony - Photograph Album in Olive Wood Binding")
Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Photographs of the Holy Land, by photographer F. Vester, Jerusalem: American Colony, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Album with 24 photographs by "American Colony" photographer F. Vester, mounted on thick cardboard leaves. Most of the photographs are of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Most are signed in the negative: "American Colony Jerusalem". Olive wood binding, printed on the reverse with the inscription "Jerusalem" and "Yerushalem" [Hebrew].
Photographs: approx. 11X15 cm. Binding: 15.5X22 cm. Good condition. Stains and damage to page margins. Slight damage to binding.
Enclosed: advertising leaflet (leaf folded in two) of the "American Colony" store at Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. Inside the leaflet is a map of Jerusalem.
Album with 24 photographs by "American Colony" photographer F. Vester, mounted on thick cardboard leaves. Most of the photographs are of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Most are signed in the negative: "American Colony Jerusalem". Olive wood binding, printed on the reverse with the inscription "Jerusalem" and "Yerushalem" [Hebrew].
Photographs: approx. 11X15 cm. Binding: 15.5X22 cm. Good condition. Stains and damage to page margins. Slight damage to binding.
Enclosed: advertising leaflet (leaf folded in two) of the "American Colony" store at Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. Inside the leaflet is a map of Jerusalem.
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
Album with 37 photographs taken by American Colony photographers, mounted on thick cardboard leaves. [Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century].
Photographs of Palestine, taken by photographers of the "Photography Department of the American Colony". signed in the negative ("American Colony Jerusalem") and captioned (in English and French).
Photographs include: women's prayer at the Western Wall, interior of the Dome of the Rock, Rachel's Tomb and a fishing boat among the rocks of Jaffa Port. The front wooden binding is carved with a "Jerusalem cross", beneath which is the inscription "Yerushalem" (Hebrew). On the back binding is the inscription "Jerusalem".
Photographs average 15X10.5 cm, album: 22X16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains to some photographs, tissue guards and cardboard plates. Light bends to cardboard leaves. Cracks to wooden binding. Leather spine, slightly worn.
Photographs of Palestine, taken by photographers of the "Photography Department of the American Colony". signed in the negative ("American Colony Jerusalem") and captioned (in English and French).
Photographs include: women's prayer at the Western Wall, interior of the Dome of the Rock, Rachel's Tomb and a fishing boat among the rocks of Jaffa Port. The front wooden binding is carved with a "Jerusalem cross", beneath which is the inscription "Yerushalem" (Hebrew). On the back binding is the inscription "Jerusalem".
Photographs average 15X10.5 cm, album: 22X16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains to some photographs, tissue guards and cardboard plates. Light bends to cardboard leaves. Cracks to wooden binding. Leather spine, slightly worn.
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![Album with 18 photographs of landscapes and sites in Palestine. [Late 19th- early 20th century].
Most of the photographs are](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/075_1.jpg "Photograph Album - Jerusalem and Palestine")
![Album with 18 photographs of landscapes and sites in Palestine. [Late 19th- early 20th century].
Most of the photographs are](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/075_2.jpg "Photograph Album - Jerusalem and Palestine")
Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Album with 18 photographs of landscapes and sites in Palestine. [Late 19th- early 20th century].
Most of the photographs are of Jerusalem and its surroundings: Shaare Zedek Hospital, Yesha Aharon Hospital, the Institute for the Blind, the Tower of David, worshippers at the Western Wall, the Tomb of Absalom and more. Additional photographs of Jaffa, Rachel's Tomb, the Cave of Machpelah and more. Most are titled in the negative. Some are constructed from a number of photographs, using the photomontage technique.
Photographs ca. 10X14.5 cm, mounted on album leaves. Album: 16X21 cm. Good condition. Foxing to album leaves (around the photographs). Some of the photographs are slightly faded. Some are stained. Slight defects to binding.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
Most of the photographs are of Jerusalem and its surroundings: Shaare Zedek Hospital, Yesha Aharon Hospital, the Institute for the Blind, the Tower of David, worshippers at the Western Wall, the Tomb of Absalom and more. Additional photographs of Jaffa, Rachel's Tomb, the Cave of Machpelah and more. Most are titled in the negative. Some are constructed from a number of photographs, using the photomontage technique.
Photographs ca. 10X14.5 cm, mounted on album leaves. Album: 16X21 cm. Good condition. Foxing to album leaves (around the photographs). Some of the photographs are slightly faded. Some are stained. Slight defects to binding.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $600
Sold for: $3,000
Including buyer's premium
120 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, U.S.A., London and Palestine, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Collection of glass slides with photographs from Palestine; many photographs depict the Arab residents of Palestine, and typical occupations - shepherding, money changing, a pita bread vendor, fishermen, wheat sieving, a shoemaker, and more. Additional photographs from Jerusalem, Jericho and its surroundings, the Jordan River, Bethlehem, and more.
Slide producers include: American Colony (Fr. Vester & Co.), Newton & Co. (London), Palestine Exploration Fund, "G.W.W." [George Washington Wilson?], Franklin D. Edmuns, Chicago Transparency Co., Moorem Bond & Co., C.H. Graves Company (Philadelphia). Some color slides.
Average size 8X8 cm. A few slides with small fractures. 80 slides are inserted in original wooden box.
Collection of glass slides with photographs from Palestine; many photographs depict the Arab residents of Palestine, and typical occupations - shepherding, money changing, a pita bread vendor, fishermen, wheat sieving, a shoemaker, and more. Additional photographs from Jerusalem, Jericho and its surroundings, the Jordan River, Bethlehem, and more.
Slide producers include: American Colony (Fr. Vester & Co.), Newton & Co. (London), Palestine Exploration Fund, "G.W.W." [George Washington Wilson?], Franklin D. Edmuns, Chicago Transparency Co., Moorem Bond & Co., C.H. Graves Company (Philadelphia). Some color slides.
Average size 8X8 cm. A few slides with small fractures. 80 slides are inserted in original wooden box.
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![98 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Varied collection of gla](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/077_1.jpg "Glass Slides - Palestine")
![98 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Varied collection of gla](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/077_2.jpg "Glass Slides - Palestine")
![98 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Varied collection of gla](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/077_3.jpg "Glass Slides - Palestine")
![98 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Varied collection of gla](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/077_4.jpg "Glass Slides - Palestine")
Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $300
Unsold
98 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th-early 20th century].
Varied collection of glass slides with photographs from different parts of Palestine: landscapes, sites and people, 63 in black-and-white and 35 in color.
Most of the slides are titled in handwriting or in print; some of the black-and-white slides bear a printed label marked "Swan Series F.M.P." (one has a label of the "Palestine Exploration Fund"), and some of the color slides have printed labels of "Fradelle & Young" and "G.W.W." [George Washington Wilson?].
Average size 8X8 cm. Fractures to corners of a number of slides. Inserted in Keystone Company box.
Varied collection of glass slides with photographs from different parts of Palestine: landscapes, sites and people, 63 in black-and-white and 35 in color.
Most of the slides are titled in handwriting or in print; some of the black-and-white slides bear a printed label marked "Swan Series F.M.P." (one has a label of the "Palestine Exploration Fund"), and some of the color slides have printed labels of "Fradelle & Young" and "G.W.W." [George Washington Wilson?].
Average size 8X8 cm. Fractures to corners of a number of slides. Inserted in Keystone Company box.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
60 glass slides, color photographs of Palestine. Printed label attached to each slide: "American Colony Photographers, Fr. Vester & Co., Jerusalem, Palestine". [Palestine, late 19th or early 20th century].
Photographs of sites and landscapes from throughout the country, particularly Jerusalem and its environs. Most of the slides are titled in handwriting. Fifty are arranged in a wooden box, ten are in a cardboard box.
8X10 cm. Good condition. Crack to one slide.
Photographs of sites and landscapes from throughout the country, particularly Jerusalem and its environs. Most of the slides are titled in handwriting. Fifty are arranged in a wooden box, ten are in a cardboard box.
8X10 cm. Good condition. Crack to one slide.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
Catalogue
![46 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th and early 20th centuries].
Glass slides with](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/079_1.jpg "Collection of Glass Slides - Palestine")
![46 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th and early 20th centuries].
Glass slides with](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/079_2.jpg "Collection of Glass Slides - Palestine")
Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $400
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
46 glass slides with photographs of Palestine. Different producers, [late 19th and early 20th centuries].
Glass slides with photographs from Palestine - Jerusalem, Tiberias, Jaffa and other sites. Some slides from the series Life and Scenes in Palestine by E. G. Wood, London, Millikin & Lawley, London, American Colony and other producers. Fifteen of the slides are in color.
Average size: 8X8 cm. Good condition.
Glass slides with photographs from Palestine - Jerusalem, Tiberias, Jaffa and other sites. Some slides from the series Life and Scenes in Palestine by E. G. Wood, London, Millikin & Lawley, London, American Colony and other producers. Fifteen of the slides are in color.
Average size: 8X8 cm. Good condition.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
1. One hundred stereoscopic photographs presenting figures and sites in Palestine and its surroundings in the late 19th century. Published by Underwood & Underwood. Contained in original case in the shape of two book volumes. Torn and damaged binding.
2. Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope. New York-London: Underwood & Underwood, [1900]. English. Descriptions of the 100 photographed sites, with seven maps (including a folded map of Palestine, detached). Stains. Slight damage.
3. Wood and aluminum stereoscope, with etched decorations. Produced by Underwood & Underwood, New York.
2. Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope. New York-London: Underwood & Underwood, [1900]. English. Descriptions of the 100 photographed sites, with seven maps (including a folded map of Palestine, detached). Stains. Slight damage.
3. Wood and aluminum stereoscope, with etched decorations. Produced by Underwood & Underwood, New York.
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Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $4,500
Including buyer's premium
67 stereoscopic photographs of settlements and landscapes in Palestine. Published by "Levanon", [Warsaw or Moscow, early 20th century].
Series of photographs of Jerusalem, Haifa, Safed, Rosh Pina, Zichron Ya'akov; photographs of colonies and kvutzot and some photographs of landscapes and unpopulated sites. Numbered and captioned in Hebrew and Russian, in print (on the front) or on the reverse (on printed paper label).
67 photographs. 9X18 cm. Good overall condition. Stains, light scratches and a sight bend to cardboard plates.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
Series of photographs of Jerusalem, Haifa, Safed, Rosh Pina, Zichron Ya'akov; photographs of colonies and kvutzot and some photographs of landscapes and unpopulated sites. Numbered and captioned in Hebrew and Russian, in print (on the front) or on the reverse (on printed paper label).
67 photographs. 9X18 cm. Good overall condition. Stains, light scratches and a sight bend to cardboard plates.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $500
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
70 photographs documenting a voyage to Palestine (through Egypt) in 1913. Dated and described in handwriting (German) on reverse.
Photographs of landscapes and sites, including many photographs of Jerusalem (walls and streets of the Old City, a view of the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock, a view of Jaffa Street from Hotel Fast, and more), photographs of Jaffa, Gethsemane, the Tomb of Absalom, Bethlehem, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, and other sites; photographs from the port of Port Said in Egypt, and more.
On the front binding of the album is the inscription: "Palaestina 1913". On the inner side of the back binding is a glued-on paper label from the store where the album was purchased in Vienna.
Photographs: approx. 7.5X10.5 cm, in a 12X19.5 cm album (bound with a string). Good condition. Slight defects. Creases and small tears to album binding.
Provenance: Shlomo Shva collection.
Photographs of landscapes and sites, including many photographs of Jerusalem (walls and streets of the Old City, a view of the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock, a view of Jaffa Street from Hotel Fast, and more), photographs of Jaffa, Gethsemane, the Tomb of Absalom, Bethlehem, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, and other sites; photographs from the port of Port Said in Egypt, and more.
On the front binding of the album is the inscription: "Palaestina 1913". On the inner side of the back binding is a glued-on paper label from the store where the album was purchased in Vienna.
Photographs: approx. 7.5X10.5 cm, in a 12X19.5 cm album (bound with a string). Good condition. Slight defects. Creases and small tears to album binding.
Provenance: Shlomo Shva collection.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $400
Unsold
Album containing 12 pictures (photographs and prints on thick paper), dedicated to Farha (Flora) Sassoon, from the Sephardic Council of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, [December 1924 or January 1925].
Picture album compiled by the Sephardic Council of Jerusalem, as a gift of appreciation to "Madam Farha Solomon David Sassoon". Dedication on attached label, stamped with the council stamp and signed by hand.
The pictures show sites in Jerusalem and its surroundings, most captioned by hand and some decorated with a silver frame. Three of the photographs bear embossed signatures: "Z. Kotler Jerusalem" (the photographer Zechariah Kotler). The picture of the Sephardic cemetery in Jerusalem is marked with the location of the grave of Mazal Tov, Farha Sassoon's daughter.
Photographs: 17X13.5 cm to 18X24.5 cm. Album: 21.5X27 cm. Good-fair condition. Some stained pictures.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
Picture album compiled by the Sephardic Council of Jerusalem, as a gift of appreciation to "Madam Farha Solomon David Sassoon". Dedication on attached label, stamped with the council stamp and signed by hand.
The pictures show sites in Jerusalem and its surroundings, most captioned by hand and some decorated with a silver frame. Three of the photographs bear embossed signatures: "Z. Kotler Jerusalem" (the photographer Zechariah Kotler). The picture of the Sephardic cemetery in Jerusalem is marked with the location of the grave of Mazal Tov, Farha Sassoon's daughter.
Photographs: 17X13.5 cm to 18X24.5 cm. Album: 21.5X27 cm. Good-fair condition. Some stained pictures.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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![Album of photographs from Palestine (mostly from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem), [ca. 1930].
115 black-and-white photographs, mount](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale52-public/084.jpg "Album of Photographs from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 1930")
Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 20, 2016
Opening: $400
Unsold
Album of photographs from Palestine (mostly from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem), [ca. 1930].
115 black-and-white photographs, mounted on the album leaves and titled in handwriting (Hebrew).
Most were photographed in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Including:
· Photographs from Tel Aviv: general view of the city, Allenby Street, Herzl Street, Lilienblum Street, Shapira neighborhood, Palatin Hotel, Herzliya Gymnasium, Nathan and Lina Strauss Health Center, "The Near East Exhibition", photographs from the city's Purim carnival (one shows Baruch Agadati), Rubanenko's kiosk (the first kiosk in Tel Aviv), a Scouts' procession, group photographs of policemen, and more.
· Photographs from Jaffa, including photographs of a military boat.
· Photographs of sportsmen from the "Maccabi" and "HaPoel" associations and photographs from sports competitions.
· Photographs from Jerusalem. Including: the Dome of the Rock, streets in the Old City, military guard at the Western Wall, photograph of the policemen Simcha Chinkis (policeman in the Palestine Police Force who was convicted of vengeful behavior in Abu Kabir during the 1929 riots), photograph from a demonstration having to do with the Western Wall.
· Photograph of an official event. In the center is Ze'ev Jabotinsky. The caption reads: "Jabotinsky with his 'followers'".
Photograph size varies. Most are approx. 6X9 cm. Cloth-covered album, with an illustration of Rachel's Tomb on the front, 17.5X25.5 cm. Good overall condition. Slight defects. Album leaves detached (the string binding the album is unraveled and partly missing).
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
115 black-and-white photographs, mounted on the album leaves and titled in handwriting (Hebrew).
Most were photographed in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Including:
· Photographs from Tel Aviv: general view of the city, Allenby Street, Herzl Street, Lilienblum Street, Shapira neighborhood, Palatin Hotel, Herzliya Gymnasium, Nathan and Lina Strauss Health Center, "The Near East Exhibition", photographs from the city's Purim carnival (one shows Baruch Agadati), Rubanenko's kiosk (the first kiosk in Tel Aviv), a Scouts' procession, group photographs of policemen, and more.
· Photographs from Jaffa, including photographs of a military boat.
· Photographs of sportsmen from the "Maccabi" and "HaPoel" associations and photographs from sports competitions.
· Photographs from Jerusalem. Including: the Dome of the Rock, streets in the Old City, military guard at the Western Wall, photograph of the policemen Simcha Chinkis (policeman in the Palestine Police Force who was convicted of vengeful behavior in Abu Kabir during the 1929 riots), photograph from a demonstration having to do with the Western Wall.
· Photograph of an official event. In the center is Ze'ev Jabotinsky. The caption reads: "Jabotinsky with his 'followers'".
Photograph size varies. Most are approx. 6X9 cm. Cloth-covered album, with an illustration of Rachel's Tomb on the front, 17.5X25.5 cm. Good overall condition. Slight defects. Album leaves detached (the string binding the album is unraveled and partly missing).
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
Category
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
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