Album with 37 photographs taken by American Colony photographers, mounted on thick cardboard leaves. [Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century]. Photographs of Palestine, taken by photographers of the "Photography Department of the American Colony". signed in the negative ("American Colony Jerusalem") and captioned (in English and French). Photographs include: women's prayer at the Western Wall, interior of the Dome of the Rock, Rachel's Tomb and a fishing boat among the rocks of Jaffa Port. The front wooden binding is carved with a "Jerusalem cross", beneath which is the inscription "Yerushalem" (Hebrew). On the binding is the inscription "Jerusalem". Photographs average 15X10.5 cm, album: 22X16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains to some photographs, tissue guards and cardboard plates. Light bends to cardboard leaves. Cracks to wooden binding. Leather spine, slightly worn.
Album with 37 photographs taken by American Colony photographers, mounted on thick cardboard leaves. [Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century]. Photographs of Palestine, taken by photographers of the "Photography Department of the American Colony". signed in the negative ("American Colony Jerusalem") and captioned (in English and French). Photographs include: women's prayer at the Western Wall, interior of the Dome of the Rock, Rachel's Tomb and a fishing boat among the rocks of Jaffa Port. The front wooden binding is carved with a "Jerusalem cross", beneath which is the inscription "Yerushalem" (Hebrew). On the binding is the inscription "Jerusalem". Photographs average 15X10.5 cm, album: 22X16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains to some photographs, tissue guards and cardboard plates. Light bends to cardboard leaves. Cracks to wooden binding. Leather spine, slightly worn.
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