Photograph Album – Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium – Early Photographs by Avraham Soskin

Photograph Album – Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium – Early Photographs by Avraham Soskin
Album with 26 photographs of classrooms, pupils during various activities and teachers in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, from its early days in the historic building in Tel-Aviv, by Avraham Soskin. [ca. 1910 through 1920s].
In the album appear photographs of pupils and teachers in classrooms, class pictures, photographs of the gymnasium building, and more, by Avraham Soskin: • The principle, Dr. Ben Zion Mosensohn, standing in a corridor. Signed in the plate: "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Classroom with Dr. Haim Bograshov. • Gymnastics class with the teacher Zvi Nishri. • Sewing class with the teacher Haya Wiezmann-Lichtenstein. • Class picture (montage) of students and teachers of the first year in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel-Aviv, (1913). Signed in the plate "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Façade of the Herzliya gymnasium building in Tel-Aviv. • Natural science class with Dr. Matman. • The school staff.
The other photographs were also, most probably, taken by Soskin, among them: • Science class with the teacher (Raphael?) Sverdlov. • Gymnastics class for girls in the school's courtyard. • Literature class with the teacher Raphael Sofferman. • Bible class with Dr. Ben Zion Mosinsohn. • Preparatory class with the teacher Sarah Braverman-Kaniuk. • Carpentry class. • Wind orchestra. • Gymnastics class in the school's courtyard. • And more.
All of the photographs are mounted on the album's leaves.
16X11 cm – 17X12 cm, one photograph: 13X9.5 cm. Album: 31.5X25 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Creases to album's leaves. Blemishes and tears to album's binding and spine.