Approx. 50 paper items of hotels and guesthouses in Palestine, including menus, invitations, letters, receipts and more. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and elsewhere, ca. 1920s-1950s. Hebrew, English, French, German and Arabic.
In the collection: • Paper items of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem: an illustrated advertising brochure, various menus (among them, menus of Christmas and New Year's dinners in 1937-1938. Some of them with illustrations), paper labels, letters on the official stationery of the hotel and more. • Paper items of various hotels and guesthouses in Jerusalem: Hotel Fast, Allenby Hotel, Warschawski Hotel, Grand New Hotel, and more. • Letters handwritten on the official stationery of hotels in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa: Hotel Joseph Soffer (a letter from 1917), the New York Hotel of Moshe Sheftel (1926), the Ritz Hotel (1935). Gat Rimmon Hotel, Hotel Pension Karpin (a letter from 1939 handwritten by the author Rabbi Binyamin. Signed "Y. Redler-Feldman"), and more. • Arabic letter on the official stationery of Hotel Tiberias. • Instruction brochure for the guests of "Kefar HaChoresh" guest house and convalescent home (founded by the "Margo'ah L'Oved" Company). • And additional items.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.