Online Auction 016 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Postcards – American Colony – Palestine, 20th Century

Opening: $600
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
110 postcards with photos taken by the American Colony Photography Department and by the Matson Photo Service in Jerusalem. [First decades of the 20th century].
The postcards feature Jerusalem's Old City walls, the Western Wall, Mount of Olives, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dome of the Rock, the Antonia Fortress, Rachel's Tomb, the Dead Sea, Kinneret, the Inn of the Good Samaritan, Jaffa, Ramla, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Tiberias, Kafr Kanna (Galilee), the Judean Desert, the Church of the Nativity, etc. Most of the postcards are titled in the plate the plate (in Engish).
8.5X13.5 cm. Overall good condition. Few defects to margins. Stains. Pencil inscriptions on verso of some postcards. One postcard was sent by post.
Postcards
Postcards