Auction 91 Part 1 Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
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A small souvenir album with 28 photographs of abandoned illegal immigrant ships at the port of Haifa and other ports. The photographs depict various ships, including the SS Hanna Szenes, SS Palmach, SS Henrietta Szold, SS HaChayal HaIvri, SS Chaviva Reick, and SS Theodor Herzl. The ships seized by the British authorities and kept at the Haifa port were known as "the Fleet of Shadows". At the beginning of the album is a folded leaf with the photographer's name and information about the photographs: the names of the ships, the number of immigrants and their arrival date in Palestine (the list enumerates eighteen photographs only, the rest of the photographs in the album were possibly taken by other photographers or added later). The front board reads "A Fleet Returning to the Homeland, Illegal Immigrant Ships at the Port of Haifa" (Hebrew).
Enclosed: a "shanah tovah" card published by Photo-Studio Kugel, with the same photographs of the illegal immigrant ships appearing in the album.
A total of 28 photographs. Size of photographs: approx. 11.5X8.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Some of the photographs are captioned by hand on the leaves. Blue binding tied with string, with tissue guards. The leaves of the album and the photographs are slightly bent. Tears and blemishes to the tissue guards (some of them repaired with acid-free tape). Abrasions and blemishes to binding.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
![Album comprising 25 photographs, most or all by the photographer Kurt Triest. Palestine: [ca. late 1930s to late 1940s].
Am](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/227.jpg "Album of Photographs – Kurt Triest – Mandatory Palestine and the 1948")
Album comprising 25 photographs, most or all by the photographer Kurt Triest. Palestine: [ca. late 1930s to late 1940s].
Among the photographs: field plowing under the protection of a mounted Jewish Noter (a member of the Notrim" forces – Jewish auxiliaries serving in the British Armed Forces in Mandatory Palestine); Palmach soldiers; British soldiers in the streets of Tel Aviv; Rabbi reading to an audience in Tel Aviv beach; the lighthouse in Jaffa; camels hauling cargo; and more.
The photographs a preceded by a title page, compiled of color, scissor-cut, letters (one letter missing): "Ein Al[b]um in Bildern, vor 1948" [An Album in Pictures, before 1948].
Nineteen of the photographs are stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Kurt Triests; one bears an additional stamp, blurred ("The Victory Committee"?). Some photographs with divided backs, to be used as postcards.
Kurt Triest was born in Nuremberg, and studied painting in the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1929 he established a photography studio, and was employed as a graphic designer by various German newspapers and publishers. In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, and became the regular photographer of the "Habimah" theatre. He opened the photography studio "Photo-Temunah", together with the photographer Moshe (Max) Rosenthal. Triest ceased to work as a photographer following the establishment of the State of Israel, after developing an allergy for chemicals used in the process of photograph development.
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Stains, pinholes and minor abrasions to some photographs. Inscriptions on verso. Album: 11.5X20 cm. Without binding (album leaves bound with string). Blemishes and wear.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
![Portfolio of photographs, published by Keren HaYesod. [Israel, 1950s].
26 photographs depicting the newly established State](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/228.jpg "Portfolio of Photographs – Shmuel Yosef Schweig – Keren HaYesod")
26 photographs depicting the newly established State of Israel – Independence Day in Jerusalem, Haifa, Mount Herzl, the "Nesher" cement factory, Youth Aliya children at Degania Aleph, the Negev, Immigrants on their way to Israel, agricultural work, and more. The photographs are mounted on thick leaves with passe-partout frames, captioned in Hebrew and in English.
The photographs were presumably taken by Shmuel Yosef Schweig.
Photographs: 12X17 cm. Good condition. Mounted to thick paper (33 cm; some stains and creases to paper) and placed in a thick portfolio, with the logo of Keren HaYesod on the front and the words "ישראל Israel" on the spine. Minor stains and blemishes to portfolio. Strip of cloth tape to portfolio.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.