A large collection of more than 750 photographs by Paul Gross, the photographer of The Orient Press Photo Company, including photographs of views and sites in Israel and photographs of archeological findings. Israel, [ca. 1950s-1960s].
A large collection of photographs by Paul Gross, who bought Zoltan Kluger's share in The Orient Press Photo Company and became the company's photographer in 1950.
Most of the photographs were printed in a small format and are mounted in groups, arranged by subject, to The Orient Press Photo Company album leaves. These include: • Nature and landscape photographs from all over the country (several are from Sinai). • Photographs of the Old City of Jerusalem. • Photographs of Tiberias, Nazareth, Nablus, Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem and elsewhere. • Photographs of the ruins of the synagogue of Capernaum and the ruins of the synagogue of Baram and photographs of various archeological exhibits. • And more. Several of the leaves are captioned (by hand; mainly in English). Alongside each photograph is its serial number.
The collection also contains photographs in larger format; some are stamped on verso with Paul Gross' stamp.
Approx. 620 photographs mounted to approx. 90 album leaves (height: 33 cm) + approx. 150 loose photographs. Size and condition vary.