Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Avraham Soskin – Collection of Photographs of Tel-Aviv during Its First Two Decades – Photographs of Streets and Buildings in the City / Photographs of Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Lord Balfour and Others
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $5,750
Including buyer's premium
Collection of photographs documenting the first decades of the city of Tel-Aviv, from the day of its establishment (April 11, 1909) to ca. mid-1920s. The photographs are not signed; most or all of them were taken by Avraham Soskin.
The collection contains 46 photographs, including several of Avraham Soskin's well-known photographs documenting the first days of Tel-Aviv – a photograph of the land lottery of the "Achuzat Bayit" Society ("The Seashell Lottery" – the event considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv, 1909); a photograph of a ceremony of "the laying of the first stone on the land"; a photograph of the kiosk on Rothschild Boulevard (1910); a photograph of the post and telegraph building; a photograph of the "Galei Aviv" casino; a photograph of workers levelling dunes of sands; and other photographs.
In addition, the collection contains photographs of visits of dignitaries to Tel-Aviv and of various events that were held in the city: Chaim Weizmann during the ceremony of handing over a flag to the First Hebrew Battlion of Judea (First Judeans); Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Commission; reception in honor of Albert Einstein and his wife in 1923; reception in honor of Alfred Millner; Winston Churchill with Meir Dizengoff; Lord Balfour with Chaim Weizmann and others (at the "Herzlia" gymnasium?); a "Totzeret HaAretz" exhibition; and more.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German Colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914, Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both photography studio and home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed).
Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel-Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city.
Most of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on verso.
46 photographs, mostly approx. 11X17 cm. (one photograph is smaller). Condition varies. Stains (most of them on margins and on verso). Traces of gluing, tears and open tears to the margins of some of them (most of them small). Pencil scribbles on some photographs.
The collection contains 46 photographs, including several of Avraham Soskin's well-known photographs documenting the first days of Tel-Aviv – a photograph of the land lottery of the "Achuzat Bayit" Society ("The Seashell Lottery" – the event considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv, 1909); a photograph of a ceremony of "the laying of the first stone on the land"; a photograph of the kiosk on Rothschild Boulevard (1910); a photograph of the post and telegraph building; a photograph of the "Galei Aviv" casino; a photograph of workers levelling dunes of sands; and other photographs.
In addition, the collection contains photographs of visits of dignitaries to Tel-Aviv and of various events that were held in the city: Chaim Weizmann during the ceremony of handing over a flag to the First Hebrew Battlion of Judea (First Judeans); Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Commission; reception in honor of Albert Einstein and his wife in 1923; reception in honor of Alfred Millner; Winston Churchill with Meir Dizengoff; Lord Balfour with Chaim Weizmann and others (at the "Herzlia" gymnasium?); a "Totzeret HaAretz" exhibition; and more.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German Colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914, Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both photography studio and home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed).
Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel-Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city.
Most of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on verso.
46 photographs, mostly approx. 11X17 cm. (one photograph is smaller). Condition varies. Stains (most of them on margins and on verso). Traces of gluing, tears and open tears to the margins of some of them (most of them small). Pencil scribbles on some photographs.
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