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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
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Album – Tel-Aviv Views by the photographer Avraham Soskin. [Berlin, 1926]. Hebrew, English and German. Two copies.
An album with 70 printed photographs of Tel-Aviv, from the "Meeting founding Tel-Aviv" 1908 until 1926. The album ends with two maps – one of Tel-Aviv when it was founded and the other of Tel-Aviv in 1926. Introduction and titles in three languages – Hebrew, English and German, by Soskin. At the opening of the album appear the Tel-Aviv coat of arms and photographs of the city's founders and the first mayor Meir Dizengoff.
Two copies, in different bindings. A dedication to the poet Ya'akov Cohen appears in one of the copies, handwritten and hand-signed by Meir Dizengoff, from 1932 (next to the Tel-Aviv coat of arms).
[3] leaves (introductions), [38] plates (picture-plates), approx. 17X23 cm. Condition varies, fair (tears, stains and defects to bindings and to album leaves).
An album with 70 printed photographs of Tel-Aviv, from the "Meeting founding Tel-Aviv" 1908 until 1926. The album ends with two maps – one of Tel-Aviv when it was founded and the other of Tel-Aviv in 1926. Introduction and titles in three languages – Hebrew, English and German, by Soskin. At the opening of the album appear the Tel-Aviv coat of arms and photographs of the city's founders and the first mayor Meir Dizengoff.
Two copies, in different bindings. A dedication to the poet Ya'akov Cohen appears in one of the copies, handwritten and hand-signed by Meir Dizengoff, from 1932 (next to the Tel-Aviv coat of arms).
[3] leaves (introductions), [38] plates (picture-plates), approx. 17X23 cm. Condition varies, fair (tears, stains and defects to bindings and to album leaves).
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
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About 210 photographs by photographers of "The Matson Photo Service", "Palphot" and other photographers, arranged in three albums. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and other places in Palestine (some photographs from other places), [ca. 1930s-40s].
The album includes: Numerous photographs of Jerusalem and its sites (Tower of David, Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Allenby Square, Generali Building, YMCA building, and more), photographs of Tel-Aviv (Rothschild Boulevard, Mugrabi Cinema, the Promenade), photographs of Haifa ("Hadar" neighborhood, the bay, Herzl Street), numerous photographs of Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, Jaffa port, Safed, Grave of Rambam, Rachel's Tomb, two aerial photographs of Palestine, and more.
Also appearing in the albums are photographs of British soldiers, a number of postcards with photographs of vessels and about 30 colorful cards with photographs of sites in Italy.
The photographs are arranged in three albums, most of them are stamped on the back with ink-stamp: "The Matson Photo Service" and a small number are stamped: "Appr, Milit, Photogr, no. 128, Copyright by Palphot". Some of the photographs are titled by hand on the back or on stickers on the album leaves (in English). A few photographs appear in more than one copy.
Size and condition vary, average size: approx. 9X6 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Slight damages. Stains, creases, cracks and lacking corners to a small part of the photographs. Some photographs are attached to the album leaves with adhesive tape. Two albums are bound in leather bindings; a plaque with a relief of Rachel's Tomb is mounted on the binding of one album.
The album includes: Numerous photographs of Jerusalem and its sites (Tower of David, Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Allenby Square, Generali Building, YMCA building, and more), photographs of Tel-Aviv (Rothschild Boulevard, Mugrabi Cinema, the Promenade), photographs of Haifa ("Hadar" neighborhood, the bay, Herzl Street), numerous photographs of Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, Jaffa port, Safed, Grave of Rambam, Rachel's Tomb, two aerial photographs of Palestine, and more.
Also appearing in the albums are photographs of British soldiers, a number of postcards with photographs of vessels and about 30 colorful cards with photographs of sites in Italy.
The photographs are arranged in three albums, most of them are stamped on the back with ink-stamp: "The Matson Photo Service" and a small number are stamped: "Appr, Milit, Photogr, no. 128, Copyright by Palphot". Some of the photographs are titled by hand on the back or on stickers on the album leaves (in English). A few photographs appear in more than one copy.
Size and condition vary, average size: approx. 9X6 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Slight damages. Stains, creases, cracks and lacking corners to a small part of the photographs. Some photographs are attached to the album leaves with adhesive tape. Two albums are bound in leather bindings; a plaque with a relief of Rachel's Tomb is mounted on the binding of one album.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
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About 230 photographs arranged in an album, documenting Jerusalem and Palestine in the early 1930s. 1930-1931.
The album includes: photographs of the Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock, Western Wall, lanes and figures in the Old City, numerous photographs of the Jerusalem Gates, burial of the Indian-Moslem leader Muhamed Ali Juhar on the Temple Mount, British police station in Givat Shaul, a World War I canon, mud shacks near the Dead Sea, Trans-Jordanian Frontier Force on a bridge over the Jordan river, Bedouins, women in traditional costumes, an orchestra of blind musicians and photographs of the towns of Nablus, Hebron, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and more.
The photographs are titled by hand on the album leaves, as well as on small paper labels pasted by the photographs (English). Some photographs are titled by hand on the back. On the back of some photographs appears a printed inscription (presumably, those are photographs taken by professional photographers).
On inner side of front cover appears the inscription: Palestine, 1930-31. E. Barnes, 771.
Photographs: approx. 8X5.5 cm (a number of photographs are larger). Condition varies. Good overall condition. Slight defects. Several detached photographs. Album: approx. 31.5X21 cm. Good-fair condition. Slight damage to margins of leaves. Tears, stains and defects to some tissue-guards. Slight defects to binding.
The album includes: photographs of the Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock, Western Wall, lanes and figures in the Old City, numerous photographs of the Jerusalem Gates, burial of the Indian-Moslem leader Muhamed Ali Juhar on the Temple Mount, British police station in Givat Shaul, a World War I canon, mud shacks near the Dead Sea, Trans-Jordanian Frontier Force on a bridge over the Jordan river, Bedouins, women in traditional costumes, an orchestra of blind musicians and photographs of the towns of Nablus, Hebron, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and more.
The photographs are titled by hand on the album leaves, as well as on small paper labels pasted by the photographs (English). Some photographs are titled by hand on the back. On the back of some photographs appears a printed inscription (presumably, those are photographs taken by professional photographers).
On inner side of front cover appears the inscription: Palestine, 1930-31. E. Barnes, 771.
Photographs: approx. 8X5.5 cm (a number of photographs are larger). Condition varies. Good overall condition. Slight defects. Several detached photographs. Album: approx. 31.5X21 cm. Good-fair condition. Slight damage to margins of leaves. Tears, stains and defects to some tissue-guards. Slight defects to binding.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $250
Sold for: $688
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Four press photographs from the Great Arab Revolt period, portraying Arabs in Palestine, 1936-1939.
1. Group photograph of the Arab Higher Committee, among them Haj Amin Al-Huseini, [1936]. Titled on the back (in German) on a press information note and ink-stamped.
18X13 cm. Good condition. Slight defects.
2. Photograph of a group of rioters with their commander Abd-el-Razak, 9.12.38. Titled and dated on the back (in French) on a press information note and ink-stamped.
18X13 cm. Good condition. Stains.
3-4. Two photographs portraying Arabs arrested by the British Police having arms found in their possession, 5.4.1939. Titled and dated on the back (in French) on press information notes.
21X15 cm. Good condition.
1. Group photograph of the Arab Higher Committee, among them Haj Amin Al-Huseini, [1936]. Titled on the back (in German) on a press information note and ink-stamped.
18X13 cm. Good condition. Slight defects.
2. Photograph of a group of rioters with their commander Abd-el-Razak, 9.12.38. Titled and dated on the back (in French) on a press information note and ink-stamped.
18X13 cm. Good condition. Stains.
3-4. Two photographs portraying Arabs arrested by the British Police having arms found in their possession, 5.4.1939. Titled and dated on the back (in French) on press information notes.
21X15 cm. Good condition.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $200
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
Hundert deutsche Fliegerbilder aus Palästina [One Hundred Aerial Photographs from Palestine], edited by Gustaf Dalman. "Schriften des Deutschen Palästina-Instituts; 2. Band" (series of writings of the German Evangelical Institute for Research of Ruins in the Holy Land in Jerusalem, second volume). Printed and published by C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, Germany. 1925. German.
A research book with reproductions of one hundred aerial photographs of Palestine, taken by the German army during World War I (retrieved from an archive in Bavaria), with an introduction and detailed explanations by the scholar Gustaf Dalman, the first director of the "German Evangelical Institute for Research of Ruins in the Holy Land in Jerusalem". A folding plate at the end of the book – Map of Palestine.
158 pp + [1] folding map, 32 cm. Good condition. Stains. The map is darkened and stained, with tear at margins. Two tiny holes and a bookplate on front endpaper. A bookmark, attached to a transparency, is detached.
A research book with reproductions of one hundred aerial photographs of Palestine, taken by the German army during World War I (retrieved from an archive in Bavaria), with an introduction and detailed explanations by the scholar Gustaf Dalman, the first director of the "German Evangelical Institute for Research of Ruins in the Holy Land in Jerusalem". A folding plate at the end of the book – Map of Palestine.
158 pp + [1] folding map, 32 cm. Good condition. Stains. The map is darkened and stained, with tear at margins. Two tiny holes and a bookplate on front endpaper. A bookmark, attached to a transparency, is detached.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $300
Sold for: $550
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Nine professional aerial photographs of Palestine, by Zoltan Kluger (out of ten originally). Gift by Zalman Schocken to friends on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Jerusalem, September 1938.
Each photograph is mounted on cardboard and titled in Hebrew and English (on a label. One photograph is titled in German). The photographs show: Jerusalem - The Old City, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Tel-Aviv, Haifa Port, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Yehezkel, Moshav Beit-Yossef, Kfar Nahum [Capernaum]. Included are two leaves, one with a printed greeting from Schocken: "I am glad to send to his honor, even if belatedly, a collection of aerial photographs of Palestine as a small gift for his kind greetings for my 60th birthday", and the other one with a list of photographs (in German). On the dedication page appears Schocken's signature, by hand.
See: Gil Weissblei, Album with the first civil aerial photographs of Palestine, Internet website of "Haaretz" newspaper, 22.2.2017.
Nine photographs out of ten, approx. 22.5X28.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Defects (mainly to margins). Peeling to a number of photographs (mainly slight, at margins). Stains and ink-stamps on the reverse. Stains, creases and defects to both printed leaves.
Each photograph is mounted on cardboard and titled in Hebrew and English (on a label. One photograph is titled in German). The photographs show: Jerusalem - The Old City, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Tel-Aviv, Haifa Port, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Yehezkel, Moshav Beit-Yossef, Kfar Nahum [Capernaum]. Included are two leaves, one with a printed greeting from Schocken: "I am glad to send to his honor, even if belatedly, a collection of aerial photographs of Palestine as a small gift for his kind greetings for my 60th birthday", and the other one with a list of photographs (in German). On the dedication page appears Schocken's signature, by hand.
See: Gil Weissblei, Album with the first civil aerial photographs of Palestine, Internet website of "Haaretz" newspaper, 22.2.2017.
Nine photographs out of ten, approx. 22.5X28.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Defects (mainly to margins). Peeling to a number of photographs (mainly slight, at margins). Stains and ink-stamps on the reverse. Stains, creases and defects to both printed leaves.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $200
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Black and white press photograph documenting injured passengers of the Theodor Herzl illegal immigration ship. Haifa port, 1947.
The Theodor Herzl ship embarked from Port de Sète (France) on April 2, 1947 with 2600 illegal immigrants. While at sea, the ship was discovered by the British and two destroyers were sent to take over the ship. A violent confrontation developed between the British forces and the immigrants claiming the lives of three passengers and injuring dozens more. Finally, the ship was brought to the Haifa port and its passengers were sent to detention camps in Cyprus.
This photo portrays four injured people lying on stretchers at the port surrounded by groups of soldiers and onlookers.
On the verso of the photo is a note with information for the press (in English), above the ink-stamp "International News Photo". The note also states the name of the photographer - H. Mendelson (presumably the German photographer Hugo Mendelson, 1918-2012).
17X20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains on verso and to margins (not affecting photo). Acidic adhesive tape on verso (at the margins). Minor damages.
The Theodor Herzl ship embarked from Port de Sète (France) on April 2, 1947 with 2600 illegal immigrants. While at sea, the ship was discovered by the British and two destroyers were sent to take over the ship. A violent confrontation developed between the British forces and the immigrants claiming the lives of three passengers and injuring dozens more. Finally, the ship was brought to the Haifa port and its passengers were sent to detention camps in Cyprus.
This photo portrays four injured people lying on stretchers at the port surrounded by groups of soldiers and onlookers.
On the verso of the photo is a note with information for the press (in English), above the ink-stamp "International News Photo". The note also states the name of the photographer - H. Mendelson (presumably the German photographer Hugo Mendelson, 1918-2012).
17X20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains on verso and to margins (not affecting photo). Acidic adhesive tape on verso (at the margins). Minor damages.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $250
Sold for: $600
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Two albums with photographs of the oil refineries in Haifa. 1943 and 1959.
1. Album with 16 photographs showing the construction stages of oil tanks in Haifa Port. Photographed by the sisters Charlotte and Gerda Meyer. The photographs are mounted on the album leaves and titled on them (by hand, in English). The album opens with a dedication: "To M. Ben Shachar, in appreciation for assistance and brave cooperation, from Solel Boneh. Haifa, 1.6.42." (Signed by hand and ink-stamped "Solel Boneh Ltd.").
The works of constructing the refineries in Haifa started in 1938 and were completed in 1944. Construction was carried out by the American company "Kellogg" assisted by "Solel Boneh".
16 photographs, 17X12.5 cm. to 8X5.5 cm. Good overall condition. Some of the photographs are partly detached from the album leaves. Album: 33X23 cm. Good condition. Slight damages. Creases, tears and tears to tissue-guards.
2. Album with 24 photographs showing the visit of Trade and Industry Minister, Pinchas Sapir, in the Haifa refineries, 1959. The photographs are mounted on the album leaves. Each photograph is titled with a short title printed on a piece of paper and pasted by the photograph.
In 1959 the acquisition of the refineries in Haifa from British Petroleum Company was completed and "Oil Refineries Ltd." company was founded.
24 photographs, average size: 17X12 cm. Good condition. Album: 33.5X24 cm. Good condition. Creases, stains and slight damages to tissue-guards. Slight stains and damages to binding.
1. Album with 16 photographs showing the construction stages of oil tanks in Haifa Port. Photographed by the sisters Charlotte and Gerda Meyer. The photographs are mounted on the album leaves and titled on them (by hand, in English). The album opens with a dedication: "To M. Ben Shachar, in appreciation for assistance and brave cooperation, from Solel Boneh. Haifa, 1.6.42." (Signed by hand and ink-stamped "Solel Boneh Ltd.").
The works of constructing the refineries in Haifa started in 1938 and were completed in 1944. Construction was carried out by the American company "Kellogg" assisted by "Solel Boneh".
16 photographs, 17X12.5 cm. to 8X5.5 cm. Good overall condition. Some of the photographs are partly detached from the album leaves. Album: 33X23 cm. Good condition. Slight damages. Creases, tears and tears to tissue-guards.
2. Album with 24 photographs showing the visit of Trade and Industry Minister, Pinchas Sapir, in the Haifa refineries, 1959. The photographs are mounted on the album leaves. Each photograph is titled with a short title printed on a piece of paper and pasted by the photograph.
In 1959 the acquisition of the refineries in Haifa from British Petroleum Company was completed and "Oil Refineries Ltd." company was founded.
24 photographs, average size: 17X12 cm. Good condition. Album: 33.5X24 cm. Good condition. Creases, stains and slight damages to tissue-guards. Slight stains and damages to binding.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $200
Sold for: $600
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Two large photographs of "El-Al" and "Arkia" aircrafts in Eilat, [ca.1950].
1. "El-Al" aircraft in Eilat airport.
39X29.5 cm. Good condition. Slight damages. Pasted to a wooden board.
2. "Arkia" aircraft in Eilat. Photography: Werner Braun. [ca. 1950].
Ink-stamped on the back with photographer's stamp.
27X26.5 cm. Good condition. Some damages at margins.
1. "El-Al" aircraft in Eilat airport.
39X29.5 cm. Good condition. Slight damages. Pasted to a wooden board.
2. "Arkia" aircraft in Eilat. Photography: Werner Braun. [ca. 1950].
Ink-stamped on the back with photographer's stamp.
27X26.5 cm. Good condition. Some damages at margins.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $100
Sold for: $138
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14 photographs by the photographer Leon Azoulay, documenting transit camps (Ma'abarot) and asbestos projects; mainly in Herzliya and in Bat Yam. [Early 1960s; most of the photographs are dated 1962-1963].
Photographs recording the life of new immigrants in Israel, among them photographs from Nachlat Ada and Neve Amal in Herzliya, photographs from Bat-Yam, one photograph of a demonstration against a law proposal concerning liquidation and restoration of poor neighborhoods, and more.
The photographs, all or part of them, were designated for publication in the French newspaper Le Journal d'Israel published in Israel (on the back of six photographs appear the name of the paper and instructions for printing, written by hand).
The photographs are signed on the back, by hand: "Photo Leon Azoulay" and one is ink-stamped" Photo: Leon Azoulay…Holon" (Hebrew). Most photographs are titled and dated on the back.
Leon Azoulay , born in Morocco, worked as a photographer in France and immigrated to Israel in the 1950s. In Israel he worked for the newspaper Le Journal d'Israel and documented mainly the tough reality in transit camps and poor neighborhoods. When the paper closed Azoulay retired from photography.
13 photographs: 18X13 cm, one photograph: 14.5X13 cm. Good overall condition. Slight defects. Folds to two photographs.
Photographs recording the life of new immigrants in Israel, among them photographs from Nachlat Ada and Neve Amal in Herzliya, photographs from Bat-Yam, one photograph of a demonstration against a law proposal concerning liquidation and restoration of poor neighborhoods, and more.
The photographs, all or part of them, were designated for publication in the French newspaper Le Journal d'Israel published in Israel (on the back of six photographs appear the name of the paper and instructions for printing, written by hand).
The photographs are signed on the back, by hand: "Photo Leon Azoulay" and one is ink-stamped" Photo: Leon Azoulay…Holon" (Hebrew). Most photographs are titled and dated on the back.
Leon Azoulay , born in Morocco, worked as a photographer in France and immigrated to Israel in the 1950s. In Israel he worked for the newspaper Le Journal d'Israel and documented mainly the tough reality in transit camps and poor neighborhoods. When the paper closed Azoulay retired from photography.
13 photographs: 18X13 cm, one photograph: 14.5X13 cm. Good overall condition. Slight defects. Folds to two photographs.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
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Large diverse collection of photographs from Europe and Palestine, [late 19th century until mid-20th century].
The collection includes:
Many photographs of Palestine, including: * Two portraits, stamped "Photography studio Achdut S. Nerinsky and Y. Chatimsky. Jerusalem". * Photographs of trips throughout Palestine (photographs of Jerusalem and its surroundings, Tel Aviv, etc.). * Photographs of an electrical appliance store in Tel Aviv. * Photographs of parades, assemblies and various events in Palestine. Among them is a photograph of the third convention of HaPo'el; a photograph of May 1st celebrations (International Workers' Day) in Hadera, 1934; photograph of a May 1st parade in 1941; photograph of the first international convention of Bessarabian Jews (Tel Aviv, 1958); two photographs of events attended by David Ben-Gurion (one of the reception given in his honor at the Cameri Theater); photographs of sport competitions (group photo of a exercise group of Maccabi in Haifa another group photo of a soccer team). * More photographs of various events and sites in Palestine (dozens from the 20s and 30s as well as later photographs taken after the establishment of the State of Israel).
Dozens of photographs of Europe, including late 19th century and early 20th group photographs and portraits (Cabinet cards and Carte de visite photographs). Soldiers can be seen in some photographs.
Some photographs bear ink-stamps of the photographers on the back and some have handwritten descriptions or dates on the back. Some are divided on the verso to be used as a postcard.
Total of 440 photographs. Size and condition vary. Some are arranged in albums. A number of photographs appear in two copies.
The collection includes:
Many photographs of Palestine, including: * Two portraits, stamped "Photography studio Achdut S. Nerinsky and Y. Chatimsky. Jerusalem". * Photographs of trips throughout Palestine (photographs of Jerusalem and its surroundings, Tel Aviv, etc.). * Photographs of an electrical appliance store in Tel Aviv. * Photographs of parades, assemblies and various events in Palestine. Among them is a photograph of the third convention of HaPo'el; a photograph of May 1st celebrations (International Workers' Day) in Hadera, 1934; photograph of a May 1st parade in 1941; photograph of the first international convention of Bessarabian Jews (Tel Aviv, 1958); two photographs of events attended by David Ben-Gurion (one of the reception given in his honor at the Cameri Theater); photographs of sport competitions (group photo of a exercise group of Maccabi in Haifa another group photo of a soccer team). * More photographs of various events and sites in Palestine (dozens from the 20s and 30s as well as later photographs taken after the establishment of the State of Israel).
Dozens of photographs of Europe, including late 19th century and early 20th group photographs and portraits (Cabinet cards and Carte de visite photographs). Soldiers can be seen in some photographs.
Some photographs bear ink-stamps of the photographers on the back and some have handwritten descriptions or dates on the back. Some are divided on the verso to be used as a postcard.
Total of 440 photographs. Size and condition vary. Some are arranged in albums. A number of photographs appear in two copies.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $100
Sold for: $175
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A portrait photograph of the British military officer and archaeologist Charles Warren. One of the first archaeologists in Palestine. London, [ca. 1888].
The photograph is mounted on cardboard, signed in the plate on the bottom margin: Barraud [Herbert Rose Barraud].
Charles Warren (1840-1927), officer in the British Royal Engineers, was sent to Palestine in 1867 by the British Palestine Exploration Fund and was partner to some of the most important discoveries in Jerusalem area: "Hasmonean Hall", "LMLK seals", a shaft near the City of David and other findings. One of the Western Wall gates - "Warren Gate" - is named after him.
Enclosed are two leaves with a four-page article surveying Warren's life until 1886. Numbered 118-120.
Photograph: 24.5X17.5 cm. Slight damages (mainly at margins). Mounted on cardboard, board: 36X25.5 cm, with defects, stains, tears and open tears at margins.
The photograph is mounted on cardboard, signed in the plate on the bottom margin: Barraud [Herbert Rose Barraud].
Charles Warren (1840-1927), officer in the British Royal Engineers, was sent to Palestine in 1867 by the British Palestine Exploration Fund and was partner to some of the most important discoveries in Jerusalem area: "Hasmonean Hall", "LMLK seals", a shaft near the City of David and other findings. One of the Western Wall gates - "Warren Gate" - is named after him.
Enclosed are two leaves with a four-page article surveying Warren's life until 1886. Numbered 118-120.
Photograph: 24.5X17.5 cm. Slight damages (mainly at margins). Mounted on cardboard, board: 36X25.5 cm, with defects, stains, tears and open tears at margins.
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