Judaica Avraham Soskin Antique Photo of a Jewish Man 1919 Signed Hebrew Inscrip

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Judaica Avraham Soskin
Antique Photo of a Jewish Man
1919
Signed
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) Antique Photo of a Jewish Man, 1919,
Inscription / dedication on reverse side in Hebrew.
Stamp of the photographer lower right on front side,
PC size.
Avraham Soskin
(1881-1963) was the quintessential “Tel Aviv photographer” in the first decades following the city’s establishment. His photograph of the historic lottery of housing parcels that took place on April 11, 1909, on the Jaffa sand dunes is the most frequently reproduced and widely disseminated image of early Tel Aviv. Soon thereafter, the streets of the Ahuzat Bayit suburb were laid out and the first buildings erected. From 1914 to 1933 Soskin maintained his studio at 24 Herzl Street, down the block from the new town’s principal landmark, the Herzliah Gymnasium. After he closed his studio he supported himself through a typesetting (zincography) business