END OF BRITISH RULE IN PALESTINE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Significant collection of photographs of the end of British rule in the Middle East.

A group of 14 press photographs, dated 1940-1947, various sizes (largest 255 x 205 mm., and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of various British and American press agencies. (Insignificant marginal finger-soiling and creasing.)

Interesting collection of images, bookended with the earliest dated photograph shows Yeomanry Cavalry in pith helmets riding through a remote village, while the last shows smoke clouds rising over Jerusalem. A photograph dated 1946 shows an Arab street decorated with Palestinian flags celebrating the escape of the Grand Mufti to Cairo, while another shows the hole in the side of the prison at Acre after the daring Irgun breakout. The wide-range of subjects continues, with images of the Arab Legion, a meeting of the Arab Higher Committee, police investigating a truck used in a terrorist attack, as well as a photograph purporting to show Arabs and Jews working together with a Jewish women buying bananas from an Arab greengrocer.