Auction 56 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Letter and Photograph Collection - Tel Nordau Neighborhood in Tel Aviv - Photographs by Shimon Korbman

Opening: $300
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Letter and collection of photographs showing the Tel Nordau neighborhood in Tel Aviv, [1920s].
1. Official letter (request for payment for a plot of land) from the "Tel Nordau District Committee", addressed to Z. [Zechariah?] Hayutman [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv, 1923. Handwritten on official stationery, signed with a stamp of the "Tel Nordau District Committee in Tel Aviv" and with the signatures of two committee members.
2-6. Five photographs by photographer Shimon Korbman (1887-1978), from 1924; four of them document a private cornerstone-laying ceremony by several families in the Tel Nordau neighborhood. The photographs show, among others, Yitzhak Hayutman (one of the founders of Ahuzat Bayit).
7. Group photograph of second-grade pupils and their teacher, in front of the Tel Nordau school building.
8-9. Two photographs taken on the beach.
Enclosed are two additional photographs, one of Sirkin Street in Tel Aviv, from ca. 1930s.
Size and condition vary. All the photographs are divided on their reverse for use as postcards. Some are captioned on the reverse in pen. Two contain pen markings on the photograph itself. Stains and defects to some of the photographs. In the letter: folding marks, creases, some stains and tears to margins.
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Pgotography, Postcards and Graphics
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Pgotography, Postcards and Graphics