Collection of Lantern Slides – Palestine, the First Decades of the 20th Century – Visit of the Zionist Commission ...

Collection of Lantern Slides – Palestine, the First Decades of the 20th Century – Visit of the Zionist Commission, Chaim Weizmann at the Cornerstone Ceremony of the Hebrew University, Students of "Mikveh Israel" and More
Collection of glass lantern slides of photographs from Palestine. Various places, [the first decades of the 20th century].
Approx. 50 slides. Including: Herzl Street in Ahuzat Bayit (1909, color slide); Chaim Weizmann at the cornerstone ceremony of the Hebrew University (photograph: Avraham Malavsky, 1918); Chaim Weizmann and the members of the Zionist Commission (1918, color slide); the colony of Rehovot (photograph: Zoltan Kluger, 1928); the students of the "Mikveh Israel" school; fishermen by the Sea of Galilee; Samaritan farmers; Jaffa from the sea; various slides showing Jerusalem (the Temple Mount), the Montefiore windmill in Mishkenot Sha'ananim, the gates of the Old City); and more.
Several of the slides depict sketches and illustrations (the building of the Hebrew University according to the plan of Patrick Geddes, an architectural drawing of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, a map of Palestine, and more).
Approx. 50 slides. Approx. 8X8 cm. Condition varies. Minor blemishes. Horizontal crack to one slide.