An impressive album of photographs, souvenir from a journey in Israel during the summer of 1949.
An album containing 168 photograph, including a photograph of the passenger ship SS Kedma; photographs from Jaffa, The Jezreel Valley and the Galilee, Haifa, Tiberias and the Tomb of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes, Acre, Safed, Kerem Hatemanim in Tel-Aviv, The Iraq-Suwaydan police fort (Metzudat Yoav), Negba, Kibbutz Nir-Am, Be'er Sheva, and other sites; photographs of an Independence Day parade in Tel-Aviv, May 4, 1949 (the parade was cancelled shortly after it began); and more. Most of the photographs are captioned on the album's leaves (in German) and some are described at some length, creating a travelogue documenting the visit of the couple Zvi and Shulamit (the owners of the album) during their journey in the country.
Size of photographs varies, approx. 7X7 cm – 12.5X12.5 cm. Arranged in the album by means of mounting-corners. Album: 40X31 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Worn binding, with tears, party detached.

Approx. 220 photographs of new immigrants in transit camps (ma'abarot), by photographer Sam Frank. Israel, early 1950s.
The photographs depict immigrants from Yemen (including numerous photographs of Habbani Jews), Iraq, India, Uzbekistan, Romania and elsewhere, in the transit camps of Tira, Bnei Zion, Tel Mond, Nahariya, Khalsa (Kiryat Shemonah), Ein Shemer, Even Yehuda, Be'er Sheva and Kisalon, and in housing complexes for immigrants in Acre and Be'er Sheva. Among the photographs are portraits of children and adults, family and group photographs, and photographs showing trade and industry, work and rest, alongside general views of the transit camps – tents, fabric shelters and shacks. In addition, the collection documents immigration absorption and aid to the immigrants: immigrant children in Yokne'am, a WIZO kindergarten in the transit camp of Even Yehuda, aid activities of the army in the Kisalon transit camp, aiding the 1951 winter floods victims, occupational training of immigrants, and more.
Sam Frank (1920-2007), born in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1948, settling in Tel-Aviv and working as a photographer. Among other projects, he took the pictures that illustrated several books by the author and puppeteer Dina Dzatelovski.
Some of the photographs are stamped on verso with photographer's stamp; however, most are mounted to leaves in groups, by subjects. The mounted photographs are partly captioned and dated on the leaves (English).
Enclosed: Two photographs by Boris Carmi.
Size and condition vary; most of the photographs are approx. 5.5X5.5 cm. Good overall condition.
See items 111-112.

Archive of approx. 1200 photographs, approx. 50 contact prints and hundreds of negatives from the estate of photographer Sam Frank. Israel, ca. 1950s to 1970s.
The photographs in the archive, many of which were taken during the 1950s, follow the first decades of the State of Israel and encompass most aspects of life in the newly established State. The photographs show the institutes of the state in various events – Herzl's burial in Jerusalem (negatives), the 23rd Zionist Congress (1951), the visit of American Secretary of State John Foster Dallas in Israel (1953), the burial of Baron Rothschild in Israel and more; cultural institutions and events – "HaBimah" theater at the transit camp of Tira (1951), the "Ohel" theater, many concerts and theater plays, a chess championship (presumably 1951), car races, and more; social and educational organizations – the activity of WIZO and the "Mikveh Yisrael" school; and other varied subjects – factories, the Tel-Aviv zoo, occupational therapy at the military hospital of Tel-Aviv (the "Tel HaShomer" hospital), IDF soldiers, the editorial staff of HaAretz, demonstrations against the Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany and Menachem Begin's speech, archeological discoveries in Ashkelon, new immigrants in transit camps, the members of the Karaite community of Egypt in Moshav Matzliach, and more.
Alongside these photographs, which are of a journalistic and documentary character and were presumably commissioned by various bodies, the archive contains many street photographs, depicting people of all strata of the Israeli society.
Enclosed are two certificates from a national photography competition of the Government Press Office and the "American Fund for Israeli Institutions" held in 1952. The certificates indicate that Frank won first prize for the photograph "Towards a New Life" and commendation for another photograph. They incorrectly give his name as Shmuel Frank, although Frank's Hebrew name was Shimon, and are signed, among others, by the painter Reuven Rubin.
Enclosed: approx. 40 photographs (reproduced from the original photographs) of Jerusalem during the 1920s and 1930s; ten photographs of President Chaim Weizmann alongside his wife Vera as well as in various official events, all by Rudi Weissenstein, stamped "Tzalmania Pri-Or" (Pri-Or Photography studio); several photographs by other photographers, including Boris Karmi.
Some of the photographs are stamped on verso with photographer's stamp; however, most of them are mounted to leaves in groups, by subjects. The mounted photographs are mostly captioned on the leaves (English). The contact prints are also mounted to leaves and are summarily captioned.
Size and condition vary; most of the photographs are approx. 5.5X5.5 cm. Good overall condition.
See items 110-111.

A large collection of more than 750 photographs by Paul Gross, the photographer of The Orient Press Photo Company, including photographs of views and sites in Israel and photographs of archeological findings. Israel, [ca. 1950s-1960s].
A large collection of photographs by Paul Gross, who bought Zoltan Kluger's share in The Orient Press Photo Company and became the company's photographer in 1950.
Most of the photographs were printed in a small format and are mounted in groups, arranged by subject, to The Orient Press Photo Company album leaves. These include: • Nature and landscape photographs from all over the country (several are from Sinai). • Photographs of the Old City of Jerusalem. • Photographs of Tiberias, Nazareth, Nablus, Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem and elsewhere. • Photographs of the ruins of the synagogue of Capernaum and the ruins of the synagogue of Baram and photographs of various archeological exhibits. • And more. Several of the leaves are captioned (by hand; mainly in English). Alongside each photograph is its serial number.
The collection also contains photographs in larger format; some are stamped on verso with Paul Gross' stamp.
Approx. 620 photographs mounted to approx. 90 album leaves (height: 33 cm) + approx. 150 loose photographs. Size and condition vary.