40 stereoscopic glass negatives taken in Palestine and its surroundings. [ca. late 19th century or early 20th century].
The negatives depict sites such as Jerusalem, Temple Mount and the Western Wall in addition to sights typical of the Middle East: a caravan of camels, a woman carrying a water jug on her head, and more. Some of the negatives were presumably taken in Europe, and some depict Western travelers in typical attire, carrying parasols, alongside carriages, camels and donkeys,
The negatives are housed in two cases, one of them marked "Palestine" and the other "Jerusalem".
Approx. 10.5X4.5 cm. Good overall condition. The negatives are marked by numbered pieces of paper.

Collection of photographs and maps issued by the Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd. [Haifa, 1926].
26 photographs of the Haifa bay, the Kishon, the Na'aman Stream and its surroundings, including the "junction of the Kishon and the Fuwarah" the Na'aman Stream, the Jedroo village with the house belonging to "the effendi, the former owner of the land acquired by the Haifa Bay Dev. Co. Ltd.", "the Kurdaneh mill" and workers preparing the land, as well as two maps of the area of the Haifa bay outlining the swamps and streams of the area and the building plans of the company. All the photographs and maps are mounted to leaves bearing the company's name in Hebrew and English, some of which bear the legend "Propaganda Material 1926".
Eight of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on the leaves, in Hebrew and English.
Albums bearing the name of the company - Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd., whose leaves are identical to these, are found in the collection of the NLI and the collection of the Haifa University Library; however, the photographs, maps and captions that appear there differ from those found in the present copy. Presumably, the company made several albums for advertising purposes, and the leaves offered here belong to a copy that was not completed.
In the NLI listing of the album, the photographs are attributed to Shmuel Yosef Schweig, and indeed, Schweig's archive includes photographs documenting the development works in the area of the Haifa bay. However, several of these photographs appear in the archive of photographer Raphael Ernst Salus and possibly, all the photographs were taken by him.
Raphael Ernst Salus (1897-1982), born in Czechoslovakia, immigrated to Palestine in 1921 and worked as a photographer. He was one of the group of founders of Kibbutz Cheftziba, established in 1922. For many years, he was a visitor guide at the ancient synagogue of Beit Alpha and was engaged in archeological research.
In 1925, Yosef Levi (1885-1949), an engineer, resident of Haifa, a buyer of lands and one of the founders of Nahariya, established the Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd., as means of realizing his dream of building a Hebrew town that will encompass the entire Haifa Bay area. The company purchased the rights to 60,000 dunam of land in the Zevulun Valley yet encountered difficulties and in 1928, the rights to most of the lands were transferred to the Jewish National Fund.
Enclosed: two maps of the Haifa Bay area bearing the title "The Haifa Bay Development Comp. Ltd.", showing the future uses of the land in the area (not in NLI).
Leaves: 29 cm. Photographs and maps: 14X9 to 12X18 cm. Enclosed maps: approx. 30X20 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Filing holes in one of the enclosed maps.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Collection of photographs by Zvi Orushkes (Oron). Palestine, [1920s and 1930s].
Sixteen photographs. Most of them were taken in the 1920s and document new neighborhoods and Kibbutzim and Jewish workers; among them: photographs of workers digging canals in Ein Charod, building terraces in Kiryat Anavim and paving a road in Kefar Yechezkel; photographs of the Borochov neighborhood, Kibbutz Beit Alpha, Degania Alef; and more. Three of the photographs were presumably taken in the 1930s; two of them depict the maternity ward of the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem and the third depicts an officer of the Mandatory police alongside a Haredi Jew.
Nine of the photographs bear various stamps of the photographer Zvi Orushkes (Oron). The others were also, presumably, taken by him.
The photographer Zvi Oron (1888-1980) was born in Bialystok as Zvi Orushkes. He first studied photography when he worked with his brother-in-law, who owned a photography shop in Warsaw. In 1913 Orushkes decided to move to the USA and started working as a photographer himself. When the USA joined World War I, Orushkes enlisted in the Jewish Battalions and became a soldier of the 39th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers ("The American Battalion"), with which he travelled to Palestine. After his release from the army, he settled in Tel-Aviv and opened his own studio. During this period, he frequently worked for the JNF, documenting the new settlements being established throughout the country. In 1930, he moved to Jerusalem, opening a new studio on Jaffa St. Over the years, Orushkes worked as a press photographer and for the British government of Palestine, which greatly appreciated his works. His thousands of photographs constitute an important historical documentation of most of the years of the British Mandate for Palestine. In 1947, Orushkes suffered from shock subsequent to the bombing of the British federal building close to his studio in Jerusalem and his photographic activity slowed down. In 1958, he donated his photograph collection to the central Zionist Archives.
16 photographs, approx. 11X16 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes and stains. Brown stripes on verso of most photographs (presumably due to mounting); some of them can be seen on the front of the photographs. Tears to one of the photographs, reinforced with tape. A fold line in one of the photographs.
Literature: "Photographers of Palestine" (Hebrew), by Guy Raz ("HaKibbuyz Hameuchad", 2003), p. 60.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.