Beschreibung:

Album in an olive-wood binding, with 144 photographs, that belonged to a soldier of the British Royal Air Force who served in the Aqir base (RAF Aqir, the Royal Air Force’s main military airport in Palestine). 1944-1945. The album includes: • Photographs of Tel-Aviv: the Yarkon River, the beach, Dizengoff Square, Cinema Mugrabi, Rothschild Boulevard and more. • Numerous photographs of Jerusalem: the Western Wall and other sites in the Old City, the British Army cemetery on Mount Scopus, view from the YMCA tower, Rockefeller Museum, and more. • Photographs of the Aquir base (swimming pool, the church, and more) and group photographs of soldiers. • Photographs from different places in Palestine and Egypt: Tiberias, Capernahum, Nazareth, Nablus, Acre, Haifa, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ismailia, and more. The album also contains three souvenir cards with pressed flowers. Some of the photographs are original while others are souvenir photographs purchased by the soldier (stamped on the : "The Matson Photo Service"). The photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves (English). A handwritten note appears at the beginning of the album – the soldier’s name, location, and the dates of his service. The album is bound in an olive wood binding with a cloth spine. A color illustration of the Dome of the Rock is printed on the front binding. Total of 144 photographs, arranged in an album with mounting corners. Size varies. Average size: 6.5X9 cm. Good condition. Some stains and creases to photographs. Some of the mounting corners are torn. Creases and a small number of tears to margins of leaves. Minor blemishes to olive wood binding and to cloth spine.