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 binding. The album was published, most probably, by "Keren HaYesod", and the photographs, most of them or all of them, were taken by Shmuel Yosef Schweig. See: "Shmuel Joseph Schweig, The Materiality of Photography" (exhibition catalogue – the Tefen Open Museum for Photography in Tel-Hai Industry park, 2010).
The photographs in the album are attached to thick leaves with passé-par-tout, with titles inscribed on them in fine handwriting (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" (possibly Independence Day 1950 or 1951). • "Transit Camp for Olim". "New House being built". • "Ruins of old synagogue in Meron". • "King Solomon's Columns in the Southern Negev". • "Conquering the desert, Beer-Ora in the Negev". • "Cement Factory" [in Haifa]. • "Factory for fertilizers and chemical products in Haifa". • "Mining Treasures from the Ground". • "Factory for Irrigation Pipes in Ashkelon". • and more.
50 photographs, approx. 12X17 cm. Good condition. Album: approx. 38 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minor blemishes, mostly to margins of binding and to spine. Housed in a cardboard case.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.