Collection of Photographs – The establishment of Settlements in Palestine – Tower and Stockade

Collection of Photographs – The establishment of Settlements in Palestine – Tower and Stockade
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.