Album with 58 photographs, most of them photochromes, of landscapes and sites in Palestine. Zurich, [ca. late 19th century].
The photographs, which are mounted on the album's leaves, portray, among other things: The Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Tower of David (with an Ottoman flag), Rachel's Tomb, the village of Cana, Magdala, Silwan, Capernaum, Mount Hermon, Mount Tabor, the Dead Sea, Jordan River, and other places in Palestine. Three of the photographs were taken in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
The photochromes are numbered, titled (in French) and signed P. Z. [Photochrom Zürich] in the lower margins. Three of the photographs are sepia-toned and are titled in the plate. Most of the photographs are titled by hand (English) on the album's leaves. The album is numbered on the inner side of the binding (ink-stamp): 164.
58 photographs, approx. 22X16 cm. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Stains and blemished to some photographs. Open tears to bottom margin of one photograph. Album: approx. 25X18 cm. Minor stains. Some tears and blemishes to margins of leaves. Ownership inscription and dedication on one of the endpapers. Loose and worn binding, with tears and rubbings. Missing spine.

Collection of more than 200 stereoscopic photographs portraying people, sights and views in Palestine and three stereoscopes. [Early 20th century].
The collection includes:
• Palestine, Tour no. 2, set of photographs published by Sunbeam Tours Ltd., London. The set includes 36 photographs and a booklet with descriptions of the photographed sites ("Sunbeam Companion"), contained in the original cardboard case.
• Set of 27 stereoscopic photographs portraying Jerusalem and the surroundings, published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations. Enclosed: "Jerusalem through the Stereoscope", printout from "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published by Underwood & Underwood, 1911. The photographs are contained in a case shaped as a book.
• Set of 96 (out of 100) stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations. Enclosed is the book "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, [1905?]. The photographs are contained in a case shaped as two books.
• 22 stereoscopic photographs published by Keystone View Company, Meadville, New York, Chicago and London.
• Stereoscopic photograph published by London Stereoscopic Company.
• Three stereoscopic photographs published by Realistic Travelers Publishers, London and other locations.
• 61 stereoscopic photographs, most of them published by Underwood & Underwood.
• Folding wooden table-top stereoscope.
• Portable wooden stereoscope. Most probably made by the Keystone Company.
• Portable wooden stereoscope with a stand. Made by Joseph L. Bates.
Size and condition vary.

63 studio photographs. Palestine, ca. 1920s-1940s (two photographs from the 1950s).
A collection of stylized studio photographs of individuals, families and groups, most of them printed on postcards. Among the photographs: • Numerous photographs portraying the subjects in boats on the shores of Tel-Aviv and Jaffa or in airplanes. • Photographs portraying the subjects riding camels, horses and even an elephant, most of them on the beach. • Photographs portraying the subjects in local ethnic attires, among them a photograph of a family in Arab garments by Avraham Soskin and a photograph of a woman drawing water from the Ein Harod spring. • Series of photographs of a girl named Miriam Amram, in different costumes. Some are ink-stamped on the back with "Photo Rimon" stamp. Tel-Aviv, 1936. • Souvenir photographs designed as banknotes of one Palestine Pound. • Photographs designed as postal stamps.
Among the photographers: "American Colony", "Photo Rimon", Zvi Cohen, "Zalmaniya Shulamit'", and others.
Some of the photographs are signed and a small number are dated on the back. Some bear a dedication on the back.
Approx. 2.5X2.5 cm to approx. 9X14 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Creases. Some tears and fractures. Some photographs are damaged.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.

26 original photographs by Avraham Soskin, mounted in an album, presented as a souvenir to Maxa Nordau, daughter of Max Nordau. Tel-Aviv, 1926.
Twenty-six original photographs taken by photographer Avraham Soskin, documenting the first years of Tel Aviv and the neighborhoods named after Max Nordau – Nordia and Tel Nordau, the reinternment of the remains of Max Nordau and his grave.
A leaf is pasted at the opening of the album with a printed dedication: "With the Compliments of the Township of Tel Aviv, to Miss Maxa Nordau, In Souvenir of Her Visit to Tel-Aviv in May 1926".
The photographs portray: the first meeting of Tel Aviv settlers on the site of Tel Aviv ("The Seashell Lottery", April 11, 1909) - rare photograph; leveling sand dunes; Herzl Street in 1910 and in the years 1924-1925; Rothschild Boulevard (in the years 1910, 1925); Herzlia Gymnasium; Nordia quarter; Tel Nordau neighborhood; the reinternment of the remains of Max Nordau opposite the old city hall building; Menachem Ussishkin delivering a speech in memory of Nordau at "Beit Ha'am"; Nordau's grave; and more. The photographs are accompanied by title-notes (printed in English. Numbered 1-20, 22-27). Unsigned.
Maxa Nordau (1897-1991) – French painter, illustrator and author, the only daughter of Max Nordau (1849-1923) – one of the founders of the Zionist Movement, philosopher, physician and author, born in Hungary. Max Nordau died in 1923, while visiting Paris. In 1926 his remains were buried in Palestine, in the cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both a photography studio and a home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed). Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city; some of Soskin's photos from those years, which became iconic and most identified with the early days of Tel Aviv, are included in this album.
Photographs: approx. 9X16.5 cm - 11X17 cm. Album: 21.5X27 cm, bound with string. Good condition. Minor blemishes to binding.