Approximately 140 real-photo postcards and photographs of farmers and pioneer workers. Palestine, [first half of the 20th century. Most of the postcards and photographs are from the 1920s and 1930s].
The photographs show the daily life of laborers and construction workers in Palestine in the first years of the Yishuv and Jewish settlements throughout the country: construction workers in Tel Aviv, Herzliya and other places; workers mining zifzif (sand for construction purposes) in the Tel Aviv sands; workers building the Tel Aviv Port; workers paving roads; Jewish stonemasons; workers in various factories, including the potash mining plant at the Dead Sea, the Silikat brick factory in Tel Aviv, the Lodzia textile factory, the Shemen factory and others; pioneers plowing, pruning, picking and wrapping oranges, and cultivating the soil; settlement houses and first fruits celebrations in settlements such as Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Yesud HaMa'ala, Kfar Hassidim, Bnei Brak, Gesher and others; milking cows at Mikve Israel; group portraits of pioneers, including photographs and postcards depicting the "Riga Group", "Polish Pioneers" and "the Caucasus Pioneers"; Shomrim; and more.
Some of the photographs are marked with stamps of the photographers, including Yaakov Ben-Dov, Falu Zivlin, Z. Brill, Y. Gliksman and others. Some of the photographs are titled in the plate or on the reverse.
Approx. 7X11.5 cm to 9X14 cm. All of the photographs are divided on the reverse to be used as postcards. Some were mailed. Condition varies. Stains, creases and minor blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.