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PALESTINE - 1936-1939 ARAB REBELLION PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
A group of 38 press photographs, dated 1926-1939, various sizes (3 largest approx. 255 x 305mm, most 175 x 240mm and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of various British, American and French press agencies. (One photograph scored and creased, a few dogeared.)
LARGE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ARAB REBELLION. Many photographs show British soldiers and Palestine Police patting down Arab suspects. One photograph shows an Arab girl as a victim of the violence, while two of the largest ones show British deployments of tanks in Lydda and infantry behind sandbag barricades in Jerusalem. The images are wide-ranging, and include some unusual images such as troops from the Arab Legion based in Transjordan deployed under the British flag near Tel-Aviv, armed Jews under the heading 'L'armee juive de demain...', Jewish prisoners cutting back cacti under British police supervision, the Arab delegation at the 1939 conference at St. James's, demolition of an Arab house in Jenin by British troops, Colonial Secretary Malcolm Macdonald mounting the steps of an aircraft flying to Geneva in 1939 to present his new peace plan to the League of Nations, and an image of the King's Own Scottish Borderers ('Kilts in the streets of Nazareth') practising with a trench mortar while Arab workers in the background, building a wall, look on.
A group of 38 press photographs, dated 1926-1939, various sizes (3 largest approx. 255 x 305mm, most 175 x 240mm and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of various British, American and French press agencies. (One photograph scored and creased, a few dogeared.)
LARGE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ARAB REBELLION. Many photographs show British soldiers and Palestine Police patting down Arab suspects. One photograph shows an Arab girl as a victim of the violence, while two of the largest ones show British deployments of tanks in Lydda and infantry behind sandbag barricades in Jerusalem. The images are wide-ranging, and include some unusual images such as troops from the Arab Legion based in Transjordan deployed under the British flag near Tel-Aviv, armed Jews under the heading 'L'armee juive de demain...', Jewish prisoners cutting back cacti under British police supervision, the Arab delegation at the 1939 conference at St. James's, demolition of an Arab house in Jenin by British troops, Colonial Secretary Malcolm Macdonald mounting the steps of an aircraft flying to Geneva in 1939 to present his new peace plan to the League of Nations, and an image of the King's Own Scottish Borderers ('Kilts in the streets of Nazareth') practising with a trench mortar while Arab workers in the background, building a wall, look on.