Photo-Album with Stone Binding – Internment Camps in Cyprus / Collection of Photographs

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1. Photo-album with a chiseled stone binding. On the front cover appears a chiseled medallion depicting a sailing ship. Inscribed on the right and left of the medallion: "Cyprus 1947".
15 photographs taken in the Cyprus internment camps are mounted on the album leaves. Printed on some of the leaves are the inscriptions: "Cyprus 1947", "LeHagshama" (Hebrew: fulfillment), "Zikaron MiKafrisin" (Hebrew: souvenir from Cyprus) or "Drishat Shalom MiKafrisin" (Hebrew: regards from Cyprus).
Album: 11X24 cm. Good condition. Some scratches and rubbing to the stone. Average size of photographs: 8.5X5.5 cm, mounted on album leaves. Some loose. Good condition.
2. Photograph from the convention of "Moetza Beth ‘HaMizrahi’ and ‘Hapoel HaMizrahi’ in Cyprus”, on behalf of “Kibbutz Magshimim” of Transylvania, 1947/8.
8.5X13.5 cm. Good condition.
3-8. Six photographs of girls in internment camps in Cyprus, 1947-1948, titled on the reverse.
Average size: 6X6 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases.
9-10. Two press photographs: Jewish refugees in Cyprus, March 1947; Jews leaving internment camps in Cyprus on their way to Israel, January 1949.
22.5X18 cm, 26X20.5 cm, respectively. Good condition. Some stains and creases, some paper pasting.
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