20 postcards with views from Eretz Israel published by fr. vester - American Colony photographer, early 20th century. Postcards::Important sites in the city of Jerusalem, figures from the Land of Israel, the Dead Sea, the Jordan, and more. Vester was born in Jerusalem in 1869. He married Bertha Spafford, the daughter of the founders of the American Colony, and became a leading photographer in the American Colony as he accompanied the visit of the German Kaiser William II in 1898 by first-rate historical photographs. In fact He was the head of the photographic branch of the American Colony. His photographs were real, and there were almost no staged scenes like the ones before him. The technical quality of the photographs, and the angles of the photograph were meticulously made uncompromising. Many of the postcards in the series he published are the initial visual documentation of those places, which appeared over the years in dozens of different editions according to the source in this series. Overall very good condition.