Lot 111
Collection of Press Photographs of Palestine and the State of Israel - 1930s to 1950s - Suez Crisis, Photographs of Leaders and Other Events
Twenty five press photographs of Palestine and the State of Israel. Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Rafiah, Sinai and other places, early 1930s through mid-1950s (one earlier photograph).
Among the photographs: * Chaim Weizmann and members of the "Zionist Commission" in Palsetine in 1918. * Panorama photograph of Nahum Sokolow delivering a speech during the inauguration ceremony of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, 1925. * Workers at Naharayim Power Plant with Lord Reading (Rufus Daniel Isaacs) and his wife, in 1932. * Three photographs of picking and packaging oranges in Jaffa, 1939. * Nine photograph from the time of the Suez crisis (David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan examining a map of Sinai; Israeli nurse treating an Egyptian wounded soldier; Israeli female soldiers in a provisional air traffic control tower in an airport in Sinai; Israeli soldier reading an Egyptian newspaper in an occupied post in Rafiah; and more). * Other photographs.
Ink-stamps of news agencies, press labels (in French and English), paper cards and handwritten notes on the back of the photographs. Seven photographs with ink-stamp of the photographer Jan Jacques Levi and his signature.
Size and condition vary. Average size: approx. 20X15 cm. Good overall condition. Slight stains and defects (mainly on the back and margins). Thin paper strips with handwritten titles and dates are pasted at the upper margins of four photographs. One photograph with an open tear at upper corner and one photograph with miniature holes (at margins, not affecting photograph).
