Online Auction 023 Part I + Part II - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture + Judaica

Collection of Photographs – Orange Picking / Workers and Farmers

Opening: $200
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium
7 photographs, most of them group photographs, documenting workers and farmers in Palestine, mainly while picking and packaging oranges. [ca. 1905-1930s].
1. "All the workers of Rishon LeZion" in 1905 or 1906.
2. "Agricultural lessons, Mikveh Israel, October 10, 1921" (the students and teachers), photographer: N. Tenenblum, Tel-Aviv.
3. Workers packaging oranges in an orchard, presumably in Petach Tikvah, [1922? / 1920s].
4. A group of workers picking oranges in an orchard in Petach Tikvah, 1922. Photographer: Shimshon Weinstein, Petach Tikvah.
5. "The packing group in the Rivkind orchard, Rishon LeZion 1932-33", photographer: Y. Ironi.
6. Orange picking in an orchard in Petach Tikvah, photographer: N. Ben-Noam, Petach Tikvah.
7. A girl holding a basket of oranges.
Size varies, approx. 11.5X15.5 cm. to 15X21 cm. Condition varies, fair to good. Stains and tears to some of the photographs or the cardboard plates on which they are mounted.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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