Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of documents of Petroleum Company in Russia and Haifa

Opening: $180
Unsold
Collection of documents of David Ettinger and "Successors of Chaim Cohen" Company, owners of petroleum enterprises in the South of Russia which later on placed a petroleum pipe in the sea near Haifa shores, for pumping petroleum directly from the ships and storing it in containers on the mainland. Eretz Israel and Russia, 1910's – 1950's.
Archive contains: Two large original photographs, "Chaim Cohen's warehouse and petroleum refineries near Saratov in Russia"; "Visit of Chaim Cohen owner of Petroleum company in the plant…" 1909 or 1910; five small photographs and a few later printings of photographs relating to petroleum enterprises. * Various letters most of them concerning the petroleum business. * Four architectural sketches for the Haifa petroleum pipe, 1920's. Total of 18 original items of that period + several later photographs from newspapers and books. Various sizes and conditions.
Eretz Israel, Settlements
Eretz Israel, Settlements