Online Auction 012 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Photographs - Important Families of "First Aliyah" - Early 20th Century

Opening: $100
Unsold
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.
Travels in Palestine, Maps and Photography
Travels in Palestine, Maps and Photography