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Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $5,750
Including buyer's premium
Collection of photographs documenting the first decades of the city of Tel-Aviv, from the day of its establishment (April 11, 1909) to ca. mid-1920s. The photographs are not signed; most or all of them were taken by Avraham Soskin.
The collection contains 46 photographs, including several of Avraham Soskin's well-known photographs documenting the first days of Tel-Aviv – a photograph of the land lottery of the "Achuzat Bayit" Society ("The Seashell Lottery" – the event considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv, 1909); a photograph of a ceremony of "the laying of the first stone on the land"; a photograph of the kiosk on Rothschild Boulevard (1910); a photograph of the post and telegraph building; a photograph of the "Galei Aviv" casino; a photograph of workers levelling dunes of sands; and other photographs.
In addition, the collection contains photographs of visits of dignitaries to Tel-Aviv and of various events that were held in the city: Chaim Weizmann during the ceremony of handing over a flag to the First Hebrew Battlion of Judea (First Judeans); Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Commission; reception in honor of Albert Einstein and his wife in 1923; reception in honor of Alfred Millner; Winston Churchill with Meir Dizengoff; Lord Balfour with Chaim Weizmann and others (at the "Herzlia" gymnasium?); a "Totzeret HaAretz" exhibition; and more.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German Colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914, Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both photography studio and home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed).
Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel-Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city.
Most of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on verso.
46 photographs, mostly approx. 11X17 cm. (one photograph is smaller). Condition varies. Stains (most of them on margins and on verso). Traces of gluing, tears and open tears to the margins of some of them (most of them small). Pencil scribbles on some photographs.
The collection contains 46 photographs, including several of Avraham Soskin's well-known photographs documenting the first days of Tel-Aviv – a photograph of the land lottery of the "Achuzat Bayit" Society ("The Seashell Lottery" – the event considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv, 1909); a photograph of a ceremony of "the laying of the first stone on the land"; a photograph of the kiosk on Rothschild Boulevard (1910); a photograph of the post and telegraph building; a photograph of the "Galei Aviv" casino; a photograph of workers levelling dunes of sands; and other photographs.
In addition, the collection contains photographs of visits of dignitaries to Tel-Aviv and of various events that were held in the city: Chaim Weizmann during the ceremony of handing over a flag to the First Hebrew Battlion of Judea (First Judeans); Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Commission; reception in honor of Albert Einstein and his wife in 1923; reception in honor of Alfred Millner; Winston Churchill with Meir Dizengoff; Lord Balfour with Chaim Weizmann and others (at the "Herzlia" gymnasium?); a "Totzeret HaAretz" exhibition; and more.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German Colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914, Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both photography studio and home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed).
Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel-Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city.
Most of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on verso.
46 photographs, mostly approx. 11X17 cm. (one photograph is smaller). Condition varies. Stains (most of them on margins and on verso). Traces of gluing, tears and open tears to the margins of some of them (most of them small). Pencil scribbles on some photographs.
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Photography
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Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Collection of photographs and maps issued by the Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd. [Haifa, 1926].
26 photographs of the Haifa bay, the Kishon, the Na'aman Stream and its surroundings, including the "junction of the Kishon and the Fuwarah" the Na'aman Stream, the Jedroo village with the house belonging to "the effendi, the former owner of the land acquired by the Haifa Bay Dev. Co. Ltd.", "the Kurdaneh mill" and workers preparing the land, as well as two maps of the area of the Haifa bay outlining the swamps and streams of the area and the building plans of the company. All the photographs and maps are mounted to leaves bearing the company's name in Hebrew and English, some of which bear the legend "Propaganda Material 1926".
Eight of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on the leaves, in Hebrew and English.
Albums bearing the name of the company - Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd., whose leaves are identical to these, are found in the collection of the NLI and the collection of the Haifa University Library; however, the photographs, maps and captions that appear there differ from those found in the present copy. Presumably, the company made several albums for advertising purposes, and the leaves offered here belong to a copy that was not completed.
In the NLI listing of the album, the photographs are attributed to Shmuel Yosef Schweig, and indeed, Schweig's archive includes photographs documenting the development works in the area of the Haifa bay. However, several of these photographs appear in the archive of photographer Raphael Ernst Salus and possibly, all the photographs were taken by him.
Raphael Ernst Salus (1897-1982), born in Czechoslovakia, immigrated to Palestine in 1921 and worked as a photographer. He was one of the group of founders of Kibbutz Cheftziba, established in 1922. For many years, he was a visitor guide at the ancient synagogue of Beit Alpha and was engaged in archeological research.
In 1925, Yosef Levi (1885-1949), an engineer, resident of Haifa, a buyer of lands and one of the founders of Nahariya, established the Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd., as means of realizing his dream of building a Hebrew town that will encompass the entire Haifa Bay area. The company purchased the rights to 60,000 dunam of land in the Zevulun Valley yet encountered difficulties and in 1928, the rights to most of the lands were transferred to the Jewish National Fund.
Enclosed: two maps of the Haifa Bay area bearing the title "The Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd.", showing the future uses of the land in the area (not in NLI).
Leaves: 29 cm. Photographs and maps: 14X9 to 12X18 cm. Enclosed maps: approx. 30X20 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Filing holes in one of the enclosed maps.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
26 photographs of the Haifa bay, the Kishon, the Na'aman Stream and its surroundings, including the "junction of the Kishon and the Fuwarah" the Na'aman Stream, the Jedroo village with the house belonging to "the effendi, the former owner of the land acquired by the Haifa Bay Dev. Co. Ltd.", "the Kurdaneh mill" and workers preparing the land, as well as two maps of the area of the Haifa bay outlining the swamps and streams of the area and the building plans of the company. All the photographs and maps are mounted to leaves bearing the company's name in Hebrew and English, some of which bear the legend "Propaganda Material 1926".
Eight of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on the leaves, in Hebrew and English.
Albums bearing the name of the company - Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd., whose leaves are identical to these, are found in the collection of the NLI and the collection of the Haifa University Library; however, the photographs, maps and captions that appear there differ from those found in the present copy. Presumably, the company made several albums for advertising purposes, and the leaves offered here belong to a copy that was not completed.
In the NLI listing of the album, the photographs are attributed to Shmuel Yosef Schweig, and indeed, Schweig's archive includes photographs documenting the development works in the area of the Haifa bay. However, several of these photographs appear in the archive of photographer Raphael Ernst Salus and possibly, all the photographs were taken by him.
Raphael Ernst Salus (1897-1982), born in Czechoslovakia, immigrated to Palestine in 1921 and worked as a photographer. He was one of the group of founders of Kibbutz Cheftziba, established in 1922. For many years, he was a visitor guide at the ancient synagogue of Beit Alpha and was engaged in archeological research.
In 1925, Yosef Levi (1885-1949), an engineer, resident of Haifa, a buyer of lands and one of the founders of Nahariya, established the Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd., as means of realizing his dream of building a Hebrew town that will encompass the entire Haifa Bay area. The company purchased the rights to 60,000 dunam of land in the Zevulun Valley yet encountered difficulties and in 1928, the rights to most of the lands were transferred to the Jewish National Fund.
Enclosed: two maps of the Haifa Bay area bearing the title "The Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd.", showing the future uses of the land in the area (not in NLI).
Leaves: 29 cm. Photographs and maps: 14X9 to 12X18 cm. Enclosed maps: approx. 30X20 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Filing holes in one of the enclosed maps.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
An album with 23 photographs documenting pioneers, workers, kindergartens, settlements and cities in Palestine. [ca. 1920s].
The photographs depict: a teacher and class in a field near Kefar Chitim, workers at a carpentry in Ein Charod, Jewish and Arab children in the Palestinian village of Kumya, a builder at "Kefar Haivri" (today, the Neveh Ya'akov neighborhood in northern Jerusalem), one of the huts of Um Juni (the first location of the Degania group), young immigrants from Iran at a weaving house in Jerusalem, panorama of the city of Tiberias (folded), panorama of the city of Bnei Berak in its first days (folded), group photograph of settlers from Yugoslavia, and more.
The photographs are mounted to the leaves of the album; captioned and numbered in handwriting on the margins of the leaves (German).
23 photographs. Approx. 11.5X9 cm to 16.5X11.5 cm. (two of them are folded: one is 31X10.5 cm and the second is 46X10.5 cm.) Good condition. Minor blemishes to several photographs and leaves. The binding is slightly worn.
The photographs depict: a teacher and class in a field near Kefar Chitim, workers at a carpentry in Ein Charod, Jewish and Arab children in the Palestinian village of Kumya, a builder at "Kefar Haivri" (today, the Neveh Ya'akov neighborhood in northern Jerusalem), one of the huts of Um Juni (the first location of the Degania group), young immigrants from Iran at a weaving house in Jerusalem, panorama of the city of Tiberias (folded), panorama of the city of Bnei Berak in its first days (folded), group photograph of settlers from Yugoslavia, and more.
The photographs are mounted to the leaves of the album; captioned and numbered in handwriting on the margins of the leaves (German).
23 photographs. Approx. 11.5X9 cm to 16.5X11.5 cm. (two of them are folded: one is 31X10.5 cm and the second is 46X10.5 cm.) Good condition. Minor blemishes to several photographs and leaves. The binding is slightly worn.
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Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Collection of photographs by Zvi Orushkes (Oron). Palestine, [1920s and 1930s].
Sixteen photographs. Most of them were taken in the 1920s and document new neighborhoods and Kibbutzim and Jewish workers; among them: photographs of workers digging canals in Ein Charod, building terraces in Kiryat Anavim and paving a road in Kefar Yechezkel; photographs of the Borochov neighborhood, Kibbutz Beit Alpha, Degania Alef; and more. Three of the photographs were presumably taken in the 1930s; two of them depict the maternity ward of the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem and the third depicts an officer of the Mandatory police alongside a Haredi Jew.
Nine of the photographs bear various stamps of the photographer Zvi Orushkes (Oron). The others were also, presumably, taken by him.
The photographer Zvi Oron (1888-1980) was born in Bialystok as Zvi Orushkes. He first studied photography when he worked with his brother-in-law, who owned a photography shop in Warsaw. In 1913 Orushkes decided to move to the USA and started working as a photographer himself. When the USA joined World War I, Orushkes enlisted in the Jewish Battalions and became a soldier of the 39th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers ("The American Battalion"), with which he travelled to Palestine. After his release from the army, he settled in Tel-Aviv and opened his own studio. During this period, he frequently worked for the JNF, documenting the new settlements being established throughout the country. In 1930, he moved to Jerusalem, opening a new studio on Jaffa St. Over the years, Orushkes worked as a press photographer and for the British government of Palestine, which greatly appreciated his works. His thousands of photographs constitute an important historical documentation of most of the years of the British Mandate for Palestine. In 1947, Orushkes suffered from shock subsequent to the bombing of the British federal building close to his studio in Jerusalem and his photographic activity slowed down. In 1958, he donated his photograph collection to the central Zionist Archives.
16 photographs, approx. 11X16 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes and stains. Brown stripes on verso of most photographs (presumably due to mounting); some of them can be seen on the front of the photographs. Tears to one of the photographs, reinforced with tape. A fold line in one of the photographs.
Literature: "Photographers of Palestine" (Hebrew), by Guy Raz ("HaKibbuyz Hameuchad", 2003), p. 60.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Sixteen photographs. Most of them were taken in the 1920s and document new neighborhoods and Kibbutzim and Jewish workers; among them: photographs of workers digging canals in Ein Charod, building terraces in Kiryat Anavim and paving a road in Kefar Yechezkel; photographs of the Borochov neighborhood, Kibbutz Beit Alpha, Degania Alef; and more. Three of the photographs were presumably taken in the 1930s; two of them depict the maternity ward of the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem and the third depicts an officer of the Mandatory police alongside a Haredi Jew.
Nine of the photographs bear various stamps of the photographer Zvi Orushkes (Oron). The others were also, presumably, taken by him.
The photographer Zvi Oron (1888-1980) was born in Bialystok as Zvi Orushkes. He first studied photography when he worked with his brother-in-law, who owned a photography shop in Warsaw. In 1913 Orushkes decided to move to the USA and started working as a photographer himself. When the USA joined World War I, Orushkes enlisted in the Jewish Battalions and became a soldier of the 39th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers ("The American Battalion"), with which he travelled to Palestine. After his release from the army, he settled in Tel-Aviv and opened his own studio. During this period, he frequently worked for the JNF, documenting the new settlements being established throughout the country. In 1930, he moved to Jerusalem, opening a new studio on Jaffa St. Over the years, Orushkes worked as a press photographer and for the British government of Palestine, which greatly appreciated his works. His thousands of photographs constitute an important historical documentation of most of the years of the British Mandate for Palestine. In 1947, Orushkes suffered from shock subsequent to the bombing of the British federal building close to his studio in Jerusalem and his photographic activity slowed down. In 1958, he donated his photograph collection to the central Zionist Archives.
16 photographs, approx. 11X16 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes and stains. Brown stripes on verso of most photographs (presumably due to mounting); some of them can be seen on the front of the photographs. Tears to one of the photographs, reinforced with tape. A fold line in one of the photographs.
Literature: "Photographers of Palestine" (Hebrew), by Guy Raz ("HaKibbuyz Hameuchad", 2003), p. 60.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Approx. 210 photographs documenting the Jewish settlement in Palestine during the British Mandate. Palestine, [1920s-1940s].
A large, varied collection of photographs documenting Kibbutzim and settlements (some taken during their establishment), agricultural work, and construction work during the British Mandate for Palestine.
The photographs depict, among other things: • Workers doing construction work and paving roads (one of the photographs, documenting a group of workers after paving the Rishon LeZion-Rechovot road in 1927, was taken by Avraham Soskin). • A Tu Bishvat procession in Jerusalem (1920s). • Pioneers working in fields and orchards. • A demonstration against the White paper in 1939 (a photograph by Rudolf Jonas). • Girls in the workers' farm near Jerusalem, 1939. • The building of Kibbutz Massada; the lands of Urim, before the establishment of the Kibbutz; and sights from Kefar Yehoshua, Ein Charod, Ramat HaKovesh, Kefar Chitim, Neveh Yam, Yesud HaMa'ala, Metula, Safed, Tiberias, Jaffa, Haifa, Jerusalem and other settlements across the country. • And more.
Some of the pictures were taken for the Jewish National Fund, including photographs by Rudi Weissenstein (bearing his stamp). Several photographs bear the stamps of the photographers Ephraim (Efrem) Ilani, Avraham Malawski, Z. Loewenheim, and others.
A total of approx. 210 photographs. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
A large, varied collection of photographs documenting Kibbutzim and settlements (some taken during their establishment), agricultural work, and construction work during the British Mandate for Palestine.
The photographs depict, among other things: • Workers doing construction work and paving roads (one of the photographs, documenting a group of workers after paving the Rishon LeZion-Rechovot road in 1927, was taken by Avraham Soskin). • A Tu Bishvat procession in Jerusalem (1920s). • Pioneers working in fields and orchards. • A demonstration against the White paper in 1939 (a photograph by Rudolf Jonas). • Girls in the workers' farm near Jerusalem, 1939. • The building of Kibbutz Massada; the lands of Urim, before the establishment of the Kibbutz; and sights from Kefar Yehoshua, Ein Charod, Ramat HaKovesh, Kefar Chitim, Neveh Yam, Yesud HaMa'ala, Metula, Safed, Tiberias, Jaffa, Haifa, Jerusalem and other settlements across the country. • And more.
Some of the pictures were taken for the Jewish National Fund, including photographs by Rudi Weissenstein (bearing his stamp). Several photographs bear the stamps of the photographers Ephraim (Efrem) Ilani, Avraham Malawski, Z. Loewenheim, and others.
A total of approx. 210 photographs. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
62 photographic postcards depicting the life of the Yishuv in Palestine. Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Petach Tikvah, Chadera, Rishon LeZion, Rechovot, Kefar Saba and elsewhere, first half of the 20th century (several later postcards).
The collection contains postcards with photographs depicting scenes of the life of the Yishuv during the end of the Ottoman rule, the British Mandate and the first days of the State of Israel. Including studio portraits; group portraits of teachers, students at school and outside, workers, travelers, groups of pioneers, and more; photographs of Jewish soldiers and IDF soldiers; main sites in various settlements and general views of streets in Tiberias, in Tel Aviv and more; photographs of events and celebrations; and more.
Among the photographs: • Portrait of Joseph Trumpeldor during World War I. • A group photograph of pioneers celebrating the new year of 1923 in Tel-Aviv. • Five photographs of Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz in a public event. • School children in Balfouria working in the garden. • May 1 Conference in Kefar Saba. [1930s or 1940s]. • An immigrant camp run by the Zionist Commission in Tel Aviv. [early 1920s]. • A watchtower in Kfar Menahem. • And more.
14X9 cm on average. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to some postcards.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The collection contains postcards with photographs depicting scenes of the life of the Yishuv during the end of the Ottoman rule, the British Mandate and the first days of the State of Israel. Including studio portraits; group portraits of teachers, students at school and outside, workers, travelers, groups of pioneers, and more; photographs of Jewish soldiers and IDF soldiers; main sites in various settlements and general views of streets in Tiberias, in Tel Aviv and more; photographs of events and celebrations; and more.
Among the photographs: • Portrait of Joseph Trumpeldor during World War I. • A group photograph of pioneers celebrating the new year of 1923 in Tel-Aviv. • Five photographs of Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz in a public event. • School children in Balfouria working in the garden. • May 1 Conference in Kefar Saba. [1930s or 1940s]. • An immigrant camp run by the Zionist Commission in Tel Aviv. [early 1920s]. • A watchtower in Kfar Menahem. • And more.
14X9 cm on average. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to some postcards.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Approx. 40 photographs documenting the establishment of settlements in Palestine, especially the Tower and Stockade (Homa u'Migdal) settlements. Chanita, Kefar Szold, Kefar Kisch and elsewhere in Palestine, 1930s-1940s (most of them from the 1930s).
Among the photographs: • Photographs from the establishment of Chanita as part of the Tower and Stockade enterprise, 1938. The photographs depict groups of the founders of the kibbutz; a tent camp; the members of the "Hagana" who accompanied the settlers during the establishment of the settlement, including Moshe Dayan; the representatives of the Zionist institutions and the "Hagana", David Ben-Gurion, Eliyahu Golomb, Menachem Ussishkin and Yosef Weitz; and more. Most of the photographs are captioned and dated on verso. Some of them are stamped with the stamp of "Photo Zemany, Haifa". • Photographs by Zvi Oron (Orushkes) documenting the establishment of settlements, including group photographs of pioneers and members of the Jewish Settlement Police (some of them depict second Aliyah man Avraham Herzfeld, a forefather of the pioneering settlements). • Photograph from the establishment of Kefar Szold (1937) and a photograph of the watchtower built in the Kibbutz. • Photograph from the establishment of Kefar Kisch, 1946. • And other photographs.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Among the photographs: • Photographs from the establishment of Chanita as part of the Tower and Stockade enterprise, 1938. The photographs depict groups of the founders of the kibbutz; a tent camp; the members of the "Hagana" who accompanied the settlers during the establishment of the settlement, including Moshe Dayan; the representatives of the Zionist institutions and the "Hagana", David Ben-Gurion, Eliyahu Golomb, Menachem Ussishkin and Yosef Weitz; and more. Most of the photographs are captioned and dated on verso. Some of them are stamped with the stamp of "Photo Zemany, Haifa". • Photographs by Zvi Oron (Orushkes) documenting the establishment of settlements, including group photographs of pioneers and members of the Jewish Settlement Police (some of them depict second Aliyah man Avraham Herzfeld, a forefather of the pioneering settlements). • Photograph from the establishment of Kefar Szold (1937) and a photograph of the watchtower built in the Kibbutz. • Photograph from the establishment of Kefar Kisch, 1946. • And other photographs.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
24 photographs documenting the Palestine Police Force and the Jewish guards. Palestine, [ca. late 1930s to 1940s].
Photographs from various places in Palestine documenting the routine work and training of the Jewish guards in the Palestine Police Force. Among the photographs: • Photographs of formations. • A group photograph beside an armored vehicle. • A photograph of Tegart's wall worker camp in the north in 1938. The photograph depicts David Cohen, one of the leaders of the Yishuv and a "Solel Boneh" executive. • A photograph of two ghaffirs (watchmen) in a guard tower. • Photograph of a group of Jewish guards of the Beach Guard unit, captioned in the plate: "Beach Guard. Kefar Vitkin 10/4/43" (Hebrew). • Photograph of two officers of the Palestine Police Force, captioned on verso in handwriting: "Sheindler, in charge of police force" [possibly, one of the officers is Max Sheindler, of the Palestine Police Force Jewish department]. • And more.
Five of the photographs were taken by Zvi Orushkes (Oron) and are stamped on verso with the stamp of his studio in Jerusalem. Several of the photographs are stamped on verso with stamps of "Studio Alexander", "Photo Teva" and "Photo studio … N. Ben-Noam" (all in Hebrew).
Size and condition vary. Stains, tears and blemishes to some of the photographs.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Photographs from various places in Palestine documenting the routine work and training of the Jewish guards in the Palestine Police Force. Among the photographs: • Photographs of formations. • A group photograph beside an armored vehicle. • A photograph of Tegart's wall worker camp in the north in 1938. The photograph depicts David Cohen, one of the leaders of the Yishuv and a "Solel Boneh" executive. • A photograph of two ghaffirs (watchmen) in a guard tower. • Photograph of a group of Jewish guards of the Beach Guard unit, captioned in the plate: "Beach Guard. Kefar Vitkin 10/4/43" (Hebrew). • Photograph of two officers of the Palestine Police Force, captioned on verso in handwriting: "Sheindler, in charge of police force" [possibly, one of the officers is Max Sheindler, of the Palestine Police Force Jewish department]. • And more.
Five of the photographs were taken by Zvi Orushkes (Oron) and are stamped on verso with the stamp of his studio in Jerusalem. Several of the photographs are stamped on verso with stamps of "Studio Alexander", "Photo Teva" and "Photo studio … N. Ben-Noam" (all in Hebrew).
Size and condition vary. Stains, tears and blemishes to some of the photographs.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
Eighteen press photographs from the British Mandate and the War of Independence. Palestine, ca. 1936-1949.
The photographs, most of which document the British police and army forces and the Jewish armed forces during the late 1930s and 1940s, are stamped on
verso with various stamps and bear press information notes (in English).
The photographs depict: • An armed Jewish youth alongside a barbed wire fence in Tel-Aviv (1936). • Policemen beside a British armored vehicle (1938). • The establishment of an outpost in the Negev (one of the eleven settlements established during a large settling operation in the northern Negev in October 1946). • A barrier that was placed in Tel-Aviv subsequent to the kidnapping of five British soldiers (1946). • Training session of the Jewish Settlement Police (1947). • Policemen in one of the offices of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem which was damaged in an explosion (1947). • A group of British officials in Jerusalem, before leaving Palestine with the end of the British Mandate (1948). • A wounded soldier watching David Ben-Gurion's speech during the inauguration of Kvish HaGevurah (the "Road of Valor") (1949). • And more.
Size varies, approx. 20X15 cm to 25X20 cm. Condition varies. Stains, creases and small tears. Re-touching marks to several photographs.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The photographs, most of which document the British police and army forces and the Jewish armed forces during the late 1930s and 1940s, are stamped on
verso with various stamps and bear press information notes (in English).
The photographs depict: • An armed Jewish youth alongside a barbed wire fence in Tel-Aviv (1936). • Policemen beside a British armored vehicle (1938). • The establishment of an outpost in the Negev (one of the eleven settlements established during a large settling operation in the northern Negev in October 1946). • A barrier that was placed in Tel-Aviv subsequent to the kidnapping of five British soldiers (1946). • Training session of the Jewish Settlement Police (1947). • Policemen in one of the offices of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem which was damaged in an explosion (1947). • A group of British officials in Jerusalem, before leaving Palestine with the end of the British Mandate (1948). • A wounded soldier watching David Ben-Gurion's speech during the inauguration of Kvish HaGevurah (the "Road of Valor") (1949). • And more.
Size varies, approx. 20X15 cm to 25X20 cm. Condition varies. Stains, creases and small tears. Re-touching marks to several photographs.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Fifteen aerial photographs of Jerusalem and its surroundings. [ca. 1930s-1940s; one later photograph].
Among the photographs: • Photograph of a village in the surroundings of Jerusalem; taken during the flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin above Palestine in 1931 (captioned in print, in German). • Two press photographs of a Hawker Hart airplane above Jerusalem. One of the photographs is dated with a stamp to 1936; the press information note on its verso indicates that the airplane was used for distributing British broadsides. • Six photographs stamped on verso "Photo Keren Hayesod"; two of them depict the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem and one of them depicts the Rockefeller Museum (ca. late 1930s). They were possibly taken by Zoltán Kluger, who worked as an aerial photographer for Keren Hayesod. • Photograph by Fred Csaznik. • Photograph of the Temple Mount by Shmuel Yosef Schweig (signed with the photographer's stamp on verso); taken, presumably, after the Six-Day War.
Approx. 10.5X14.5 cm to 30X25 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Among the photographs: • Photograph of a village in the surroundings of Jerusalem; taken during the flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin above Palestine in 1931 (captioned in print, in German). • Two press photographs of a Hawker Hart airplane above Jerusalem. One of the photographs is dated with a stamp to 1936; the press information note on its verso indicates that the airplane was used for distributing British broadsides. • Six photographs stamped on verso "Photo Keren Hayesod"; two of them depict the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem and one of them depicts the Rockefeller Museum (ca. late 1930s). They were possibly taken by Zoltán Kluger, who worked as an aerial photographer for Keren Hayesod. • Photograph by Fred Csaznik. • Photograph of the Temple Mount by Shmuel Yosef Schweig (signed with the photographer's stamp on verso); taken, presumably, after the Six-Day War.
Approx. 10.5X14.5 cm to 30X25 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Album with 50 black and white photographs, depicting settlement, agriculture, nature, industry and the army during the first years of the State of Israel. [Published by Keren HaYesod, 1950s].
An elegant album with the emblem of the State of Israel on its front cover. The album was presumably published by Keren HaYesod, and most or all of the photographs were taken by Shmuel Yosef Schweig. See: "Shmuel Joseph Schweig, The Materiality of Photography", exhibition catalogue – the Tefen Open Museum for Photography in the Tel-Hai Industrial park (2010).
The photographs are mounted on thick leaves with passe-partout frames (covered with tissue guards), and are captioned in fine handwriting, in Hebrew and Spanish: "Jerusalem – General View", "Haifa from Mount Carmel", "Tel-Aviv, Dizengoff Street", "The Knesset at work", "People carrying weapons", "Navy forces marching in Jerusalem" (presumably Independence Day 1950 or 1951), "Transit Camp for New Immigrants", "Ruins of old synagogue in Meron", "King Solomon's Columns in the Southern Negev", "Conquering the desert, Be'er-Ora in the Negev", "Mortar Factory" [in Haifa], "Factory for fertilizers and chemical products in Haifa", "Factory for Irrigation Pipes in Ashkelon", and more.
50 photographs, approx. 12X17 cm. Good condition. Album: approx. 38.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minor blemishes, mostly to margins of binding and to spine.
An elegant album with the emblem of the State of Israel on its front cover. The album was presumably published by Keren HaYesod, and most or all of the photographs were taken by Shmuel Yosef Schweig. See: "Shmuel Joseph Schweig, The Materiality of Photography", exhibition catalogue – the Tefen Open Museum for Photography in the Tel-Hai Industrial park (2010).
The photographs are mounted on thick leaves with passe-partout frames (covered with tissue guards), and are captioned in fine handwriting, in Hebrew and Spanish: "Jerusalem – General View", "Haifa from Mount Carmel", "Tel-Aviv, Dizengoff Street", "The Knesset at work", "People carrying weapons", "Navy forces marching in Jerusalem" (presumably Independence Day 1950 or 1951), "Transit Camp for New Immigrants", "Ruins of old synagogue in Meron", "King Solomon's Columns in the Southern Negev", "Conquering the desert, Be'er-Ora in the Negev", "Mortar Factory" [in Haifa], "Factory for fertilizers and chemical products in Haifa", "Factory for Irrigation Pipes in Ashkelon", and more.
50 photographs, approx. 12X17 cm. Good condition. Album: approx. 38.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minor blemishes, mostly to margins of binding and to spine.
Category
Photography
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
An impressive album of photographs, souvenir from a journey in Israel during the summer of 1949.
An album containing 168 photograph, including a photograph of the passenger ship SS Kedma; photographs from Jaffa, The Jezreel Valley and the Galilee, Haifa, Tiberias and the Tomb of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes, Acre, Safed, Kerem Hatemanim in Tel-Aviv, The Iraq-Suwaydan police fort (Metzudat Yoav), Negba, Kibbutz Nir-Am, Be'er Sheva, and other sites; photographs of an Independence Day parade in Tel-Aviv, May 4, 1949 (the parade was cancelled shortly after it began); and more. Most of the photographs are captioned on the album's leaves (in German) and some are described at some length, creating a travelogue documenting the visit of the couple Zvi and Shulamit (the owners of the album) during their journey in the country.
Size of photographs varies, approx. 7X7 cm – 12.5X12.5 cm. Arranged in the album by means of mounting-corners. Album: 40X31 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Worn binding, with tears, party detached.
An album containing 168 photograph, including a photograph of the passenger ship SS Kedma; photographs from Jaffa, The Jezreel Valley and the Galilee, Haifa, Tiberias and the Tomb of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes, Acre, Safed, Kerem Hatemanim in Tel-Aviv, The Iraq-Suwaydan police fort (Metzudat Yoav), Negba, Kibbutz Nir-Am, Be'er Sheva, and other sites; photographs of an Independence Day parade in Tel-Aviv, May 4, 1949 (the parade was cancelled shortly after it began); and more. Most of the photographs are captioned on the album's leaves (in German) and some are described at some length, creating a travelogue documenting the visit of the couple Zvi and Shulamit (the owners of the album) during their journey in the country.
Size of photographs varies, approx. 7X7 cm – 12.5X12.5 cm. Arranged in the album by means of mounting-corners. Album: 40X31 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Worn binding, with tears, party detached.
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Photography
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