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#Ephemera: When unfolded, this album commemorating the First #Zionist Congress (August 29-31, 1897), depicts the delegates.

Here, 162 of them. Figures vary, but 200-250 persons took part, including 17 #women—though they became voting members only in 1898

Interesting that this evidently American document featured portraits of not only the movement’s leaders—but also #Washington and Columbus. Trying to suggest an equivalence of nation-building—or just patriotic filler?

#Mazeldon 2/n