Collection of Photographs and Negatives by the Photographer Rudolf Jonas – Planting Trees on Mount Carmel – Tu ...

Collection of Photographs and Negatives by the Photographer Rudolf Jonas – Planting Trees on Mount Carmel – Tu Bishvat, 1950
Collection of photographs and negatives by Rudolf Jonas documenting a tree-planting ceremony on Tu BiShvat (the 15th of Shvat), attended by the Mayor of Haifa Shabtai Levi. [1950].
Twelve photographs, all stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp "Rudolf Jonas, Jerusalem": * A procession of school students walking to where the ceremony takes place. * Raising the flag. * The Mayor of Haifa Shabtai Levi planting the first tree. * And more.
Each photograph is accompanied by the original negative. The collection includes three additional negative, without their photographs.
Rudolf Jonas (1898-1972), studied law in Berlin and Marburg, where he got to know the Zionist Movement and under its influence, visited Palestine in the middle of the 1920s, documenting it with his camera. In 1933, he immigrated to Palestine, living in Jerusalem, where he worked as an amateur photographer on behalf of Keren HaYesod. After the War of Independence, he moved to Haifa where he continued working as a photographer.
12 photographs + 15 negatives, average size: 6x6 cm. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.