An impressive album with 54 color postcards showing sites and people - most of them from Jerusalem - early 20th century. Almost all the postcards in the album published by Fr. vester - American Colony (except for a few in other publishers).
In postcards: several different postcards of worshipers at the Western Wall, various postcards with interior and exterior views of the Temple Mount, various postcards of Rachel's Tomb, streets in the Old City of Jerusalem, the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem and its entrances, Jerusalemites in their traditional clothing, postcards of the train station, the market, and views of the city Jaffa, a souvenir postcard from the German Emperor's visit to Jerusalem, and more. At the opening of the album is a designed card (which is not a postcard) showing Ecce homo - entrances to Gethsemane in Jerusalem.
Vester, a Swiss Lutheran, born in Jerusalem in 1869. He married Bertha Spafford, the daughter of one of the founders of the 'American Colony'. Vester became the leading photographer in the 'American Colony' when he documented the visit of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1898 with historical photographs taken at that time. Vester headed the photography department of the 'American Colony'. The technical quality of the photographs and the shooting angles were done with uncompromising precision. Many of the postcards in the series he distributed are the first visual documentation of those places, which appeared over the years in dozens of different editions based on the original source in this series.
Album: 21x13 cm. The postcards and the album in good condition.
