Lot 116
Eight Photographs – Photographers Yaakov Glucksmann and Salim Cohen – Palestine, 1920s
Collection of photographs presumably documenting boys and girls at non-traditional educational institutions in Palestine. [Safed? Tiberias? ca. 1920s].
1-5. Five photographs signed in the plate, in Hebrew: "Phot. Nesher Glucksmann. Tiberias" (Yaakov Glucksmann). Three of them depict girls sewing; one of them depicts girls laundering; one depicts a group of boys. All the photographs, except one, depict an elderly woman with a hat and glasses (the director of the educational institution?).
6. An additional photograph, not signed, of a group of girls removing stones from a yard. Depicted alongside the girls is the same woman appearing in the other photographs.
7-8. Two photographs stamped on verso "Salim Cohen Photograph in the holy city of Safed" (Hebrew). A Group of boys wearing work clothes in a thatched hut and a boy feeding roosters.
All with postcard-divided backs.
Approx. 8.5X14 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Abrasions, slightly affecting the photographs, mostly to margins.
