35 ephemera items - printed tickets, invitations and entrance tickets to public and private events held in Palestine in the 1920s. Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, 1923-1932 (most items are from mid-1920s).
Among the items: * Invitation to a Hanukkah ball in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, with the presence of the High Commissioner, 1923. * Invitation and entrance ticket to an exhibition of works by the artist Reuven Rubin in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, 1924. * Entrance ticket to the national convention of JNF ("In Palestine and Syria"), 1924. * Printed ticket, "Commemorating the first elections to the first Jewish municipality in Palestine", 1924. * Entrance ticket and invitation to the traditional Masquerade Ball of Baruch Agadati. * Three entrance tickets to the inauguration celebration of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1925 (in two different colors). * Invitation to the cornerstone laying ceremony for the "Eretz Israeli Theater" building, [ca. 1926]. * Invitation to a "Prosperity Ball" of the Association of Engineers and Architects in Palestine, 1937 (Designed as a 5 Palestinian Lira note). * Invitation to a ceremony on the occasion of the reinterment of the remains of Max Nordau, 1926. * Invitation to an official reception in honor of "the birthday of His Highness the King", 1928 * Paper slips, "for a prize for an 'actual affairs' mask" and for "the most interesting mask" from the Purim festivities of Baruch Agadati. * Invitation to a "meeting dedicated to the question of imposing the Hebrew language" on behalf of "Gdud Magine haSafah". * Participation ticket and entrance ticket to the closing ceremony of the first "Maccabiah", 1932. * More items.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Some items were used - tears, wear and stains. Tears or missing pieces.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.