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.