Leo Kahn – 45 Hand-Colored Photographs from "Palestine in Pictures" – Vienna, 1912

Opening: $300
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
45 plates with quality printed photographs by Leo Kahn, from the series Palästina im Bild [Palestine in Pictures], Vienna: Jüdischer Zeitung, [1912].
All the plates are captioned in print (German) and hand-colored.
The photographs were taken in 1912, during Kahn's trip to Palestine on behalf of the Judische Zeitung journal and the JNF and they depict settlements and cities in Palestine, students of the Hebrew Gymnasium and Bezalel, Yemenite Jews, and more. One plate appears in two copies.
Photographs: 8x11.5 cm, printed on 17x20 cm plates. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes to margins.
Photography
Photography