Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Survey Works at the Aram Naharayim Power Plant Area / Pinchas Rutenberg-Churchill, 1920s-30s

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Twelve photographs from the 1920s-30s relating to the construction of the power plant in Naharayim. Some are annotated and dated in pencil on the reverse (at a later date): "Surveyors under the ancient Roman bridge before starting construction in Naharayim", "A group of surveyors on its way to work near Naharayim", tents for the surveyors, and two photographs of Pinchas Rutenberg, one with Herbert Samuel and the other with Winston Churchill [1921]. Various sizes and conditions, [some are possibly later printings of the original photographs?].
Photography
Photography