Collection of Photographs – Early Days of Tel Aviv – Levant Fair, Visit of Lord Balfour, Football Game between ...

Collection of Photographs – Early Days of Tel Aviv – Levant Fair, Visit of Lord Balfour, Football Game between Hakoah Wien and Maccabee Tel Aviv, and More – Early-Mid 1920s
Twenty-five photographs of the early days of Tel Aviv. Ca. early-mid 1920s.
Among the photographs: the first City Hall of Tel Aviv ("the Committee House"); two photographs of "The Exhibition and Fair for the Promotion of Goods Made in Israel" (which later evolved into the Levant Fair, 1924); a football game between HaKoah Wien and Maccabee Tel Aviv in the old Maccabee neighborhood; the first electrical transformer on Allenby St.; the Herzliah Gymnasium; three photographs depicting Lord Balfour's visit to Tel Aviv (showing a gate decorated with the British flag before the Galei Aviv casino, a mounted guard at the entrance to the casino and Lord Balfour arriving in an official car); and more.
One photograph is captioned in the plate and marked with the stamp of the photographer, Z. Brill.
The present photographs were presumably taken from a private album of the Tel Avivian architect Shmuel (Sam) Barkai, who can be seen strolling the streets of Tel Aviv in some of them (three of the photographs are stamped on verso with the stamp of Sam Barkai).
6X4.5 to 9X14 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Traces of gluing. Several photographs with postcard divided back; some are captioned by hand (Hebrew and English). Several photographs trimmed unevenly.