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Bidding Information
Lot #    20922
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:08:22 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Postcards - Jewish Colonies in Palestine – Series
Title (Hebrew)    המושבות העברית בארץ ישראל
Author    [Illustrated]
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    J. Bendow
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    20 cards octavo 90:155 mm., light age staining, as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    Booklet of twenty monochrome postcards of scenes in Erez Israel (mandate Palestine). The cover has a male and female pioneer facing each other with a photograph between thme of an armed guard at a settlement. The cards, numbered with Hebrew and English descriptions below the photographs are of Rishon-le-Zion, Rehovot, Gederah, Ekron, Beer Tobiah, Petah Tikvah, Tel Aviv, Hederah,Hefzi Bah, Zicron Jacob, Technical School at Haifa, Merhavia, Javneel, Deganiah, Kineret, Tiberius, Migdal, Rosh Pinah, and Metlah. Apart from the inhjerent attractiveness of the cards, any one familiar with these locations will be amazed at the difference between the pastoral scenes captured in most of the pictures in contrast to the bustling locations that they have become today.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica
Other:    Postcards