Ten Lantern Slides – The Western Wall and the Temple Mount – Photographs by the Bonfils Family

Ten Lantern Slides – The Western Wall and the Temple Mount – Photographs by the Bonfils Family
Ten glass lantern slides of photographs related to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. [Ca. late 19th century or early 20th century].
• Five glass lantern slides of photographs of the Western Wall (two of them by photographers of the Bonfils family; signed in the plate). • Slide showing a photograph of the Dome of the Rock. • Three slides showing pictures of models of the Temple Mount – during Herod's period, the Crusade period, and during the late 19th century (two of them were made by the German missionary Conrad Schick, a member of the Palestine Exploration Fund). • Slide with a map of the Second Temple.
Nine black-and-white slides and one color. Most of them are captioned and numbered (on stickers and in the plate; English). Sticker of the Palestine Exploration Fund on margins of three of the slides.
Approx. 8X8 cm (one slide is larger: 10X8 cm.). Good condition. Minor blemishes. One slide with detached cover glass and another with blemishes to printing.