Two Hundred Receipts of the Sejera Farm – 1903

Two Hundred Receipts of the Sejera Farm – 1903
Two hundred printed receipts of the Sejera farm, with information filled in by hand, official stamps and signatures of the directors of the farm. Sejera, 1903. French.
Official receipts of the Sejera agricultural farm, given for services provided and products supplied to the farm. Many are signed by Eliahu Krause, who served as director of the farm on behalf of the Jewish Colonization Association between 1901 and 1913, and later became the director of the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School. Several receipts are signed by Eliezer Nachum Brun, the director of the farm guestrooms. Several receipts stamped with Ottoman stamps and stamps of the Haifa company "A. Dück & Cie.".
The farm at Sejera was established in 1899, by the Jewish Colonization Association, as a center for agricultural training. Work at the farm began in 1900 and in 1902, the colony of Ilaniya was established on its grounds. David Ben-Gurion lived and worked in Sejera from October 1907 to October 1909. Among the successes of the agricultural enterprise of Sejera in its early years were employing Jewish guards from the "Bar Giora" organization where previously Arab guards were employed (known as "the conquest of guarding"); the establishment of the "HaChoresh" organization in an effort to unite all the workers in the colonies and national farms of the galilee; and the establishment of the first agricultural collective.
[200] receipts, 21X13 cm. bound together in a new binding (with new endpapers). Good condition. Fold lines to several receipts. Minor stains. Several closed and open tears (not affecting text).