Album with 26 photographs of classrooms, pupils during various activities and teachers in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, from its early days in the historic building in Tel-Aviv, by Avraham Soskin. [ca. 1910 through 1920s].
In the album appear photographs of pupils and teachers in classrooms, class pictures, photographs of the gymnasium building, and more, by Avraham Soskin: • The principle, Dr. Ben Zion Mosensohn, standing in a corridor. Signed in the plate: "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Classroom with Dr. Haim Bograshov. • Gymnastics class with the teacher Zvi Nishri. • Sewing class with the teacher Haya Wiezmann-Lichtenstein. • Class picture (montage) of students and teachers of the first year in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel-Aviv, (1913). Signed in the plate "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Façade of the Herzliya gymnasium building in Tel-Aviv. • Natural science class with Dr. Matman. • The school staff.
The other photographs were also, most probably, taken by Soskin, among them: • Science class with the teacher (Raphael?) Sverdlov. • Gymnastics class for girls in the school's courtyard. • Literature class with the teacher Raphael Sofferman. • Bible class with Dr. Ben Zion Mosinsohn. • Preparatory class with the teacher Sarah Braverman-Kaniuk. • Carpentry class. • Wind orchestra. • Gymnastics class in the school's courtyard. • And more.
All of the photographs are mounted on the album's leaves.
16X11 cm – 17X12 cm, one photograph: 13X9.5 cm. Album: 31.5X25 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Creases to album's leaves. Blemishes and tears to album's binding and spine.