Some 40 news journal photographs documenting the Jewish-Arab conflict in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1929-1949.
Included in the collection: • Arabs returning property stolen from Jews in Jerusalem in the 1929 Palestine riots; • Jewish British Mandatory police guards in armored vehicles serving to protect the Jewish Yishuv (1938); • British soldiers circling Jerusalem’s Old City Walls in a military parade (1937); • smoke rising above the rooftops of the Old City in the battles of Israel’s War of Independence (May 1948); • smoke rising above the Russian Compound in the battles of the War of Independence (1948); • three members of the Haganah underground advancing in a crawl toward Jerusalem’s German Colony (1948); • tubular missile launchers spread out along Shlomzion HaMalka Street (then known as Princess Mary St.) at the time of Israel’s Declaration of Independence and the subsequent invasion of Arab armies (May 1948); • demolition of Moses Montefiore’s Windmill in the Mishkenot Sha’ananim neighborhood; photo of the commander of the Arab militias in Jerusalem, Abd Al-Kadir al-Husayni; and more.
One of the photographs in the collection, taken by the photographer David S. Boyer, documents the bombing of Ben Yehuda Street in February of 1948. It is printed in large format (33X26.5 cm.) and in particularly high quality, and is mounted on a plate of thick paper.
Also enclosed: A photo of the British army in Tel Aviv, and another photo, dated 1956.
Some 45 photographs. Varying sizes and condition. Overall good condition. Inked stamps, handwritten notations, and notes aimed at news media organizations attached to backs. Several photos in duplicate copies.
