Collection of Press Photographs from the British Mandate and the War of Independence – 1930s and 1940s

Collection of Press Photographs from the British Mandate and the War of Independence – 1930s and 1940s
Eighteen press photographs from the British Mandate and the War of Independence. Palestine, ca. 1936-1949.
The photographs, most of which document the British police and army forces and the Jewish armed forces during the late 1930s and 1940s, are stamped on
verso with various stamps and bear press information notes (in English).
The photographs depict: • An armed Jewish youth alongside a barbed wire fence in Tel-Aviv (1936). • Policemen beside a British armored vehicle (1938). • The establishment of an outpost in the Negev (one of the eleven settlements established during a large settling operation in the northern Negev in October 1946). • A barrier that was placed in Tel-Aviv subsequent to the kidnapping of five British soldiers (1946). • Training session of the Jewish Settlement Police (1947). • Policemen in one of the offices of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem which was damaged in an explosion (1947). • A group of British officials in Jerusalem, before leaving Palestine with the end of the British Mandate (1948). • A wounded soldier watching David Ben-Gurion's speech during the inauguration of Kvish HaGevurah (the "Road of Valor") (1949). • And more.
Size varies, approx. 20X15 cm to 25X20 cm. Condition varies. Stains, creases and small tears. Re-touching marks to several photographs.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.