Album with 50 black and white photographs, depicting settlement, agriculture, nature, industry and 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 cover. The album was most probably published by Keren HaYesod, and most or all of the photographs were taken by Shmuel Yosef Schweig. See: "Shmuel Joseph Schweig, The Materiality of Photography", exhibition catalogue – the Tefen Open Museum for Photography in the Tel-Hai Industrial park (2010).
The photographs are mounted on thick leaves with passe-partout frames (covered with tissue guards), and are captioned in fine handwriting, in 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" (presumably Independence Day 1950 or 1951), "Transit Camp for New Immigrants", "Ruins of old synagogue in Meron", "King Solomon's Columns in the Southern Negev", "Conquering the desert, Be'er-Ora in the Negev", "Mortar Factory" [in Haifa], "Factory for fertilizers and chemical products in Haifa", "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 edges of binding and to spine. Slipcased.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.