A portfolio of nine professional aerial photographs of Palestine, by Zoltan Kluger (out of the original ten). Presented by Shlomo Zalman Schocken to friends on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Jerusalem, September 1938. Inscribed by Schoken to Siegfried Moses.
The photographs are mounted on card, captioned on verso (on printed labels, in German) and placed in an original, linen-covered case. The photographs depict: the Temple Mount, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and its port, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Yechezkel, Moshav Beit-Yossef, Kefar Nahum [Capernaum] and the Jordan River.
Included are two printed leaves, one with the greeting: "I am glad to send to his honor, even if belatedly, a collection of aerial photographs of Palestine as a small gift for his kind greetings for my 60th birthday" (Hebrew and German), the other leaf listing photographs (German). Inscribed and signed on the greeting leaf by Schocken to the attorney and Zionist leader Siegfried Moses.
For additional information about the album see: "Historic Aerial Shots of Land of Israel Revealed" by Gil Weissblei (in the Israel National Library blog).
22.5X28.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Stains and scuffs to verso and printed leaves. The case is worn, with minor blemishes (mainly to corners) and stains.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.