Beschreibung:

81 photographs documenting the establishment of residential communities, pioneer work, and people in Palestine. Palestine, 1920s – late 1930s (a few photographs are from the early 1940s). The collection appears to contain photographs by two different photographers: • Forty-four photographs, titled by hand on the (Hebrew), from the 1920s to early 1940s. Among them: Kibbutz Yagur near the time of its founding, 1925; the first huts in Kfar Hasidim, 1925; Tel Amal (today Nir David) near the time of its founding, 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Maoz Haim in 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Hanita in 1938; children carrying saplings for a Tu bi-Shevat celebration in Kiryat Anavim; women and men studying Torah together in Kvutzat Rodges (Kvutzat Yavne of today); Three panoramas (each consisting of two photographs) – Rosh Pina, Binyamina and Mount Hermon above the Hula Valley; and photographs of Metula, Kfar Giladi, Beit Alfa, Nahalal and other places. Enclosed: A list (duplicate of the handwritten original) with serial numbers and description of the contents of some of the photographs. The name Meir Greenberg (the photographer?) appears at the top of the list. Approx. 9X14 – 12X17.5 cm. Condition varies. Overall good condition. • Thirty-seven photographs, titled and dated on the (English), from the years 1936-1938. Among them: A sentry armed with a rifle guarding a group of bathers near Maoz Haim; the gate of Atlit on the day of its establishment, 1938; laundresses in Kibbutz Degania; a sword-swallower in Tiberias; thatched Arab houses near Yesud HaMa’ala; a passing Arab peddler, with a donkey as pack-animal, in the Batei Warsaw neighborhood in Jerusalem; a Magen David Adom vehicle on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, 1938; and more. Approx. 11.5X8.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.