ARAB REBELLION PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
Interesting collection of large-format photographs of the Arab Rebellion.

A group of 31 press photographs, dated 1936-1939, various sizes (mostly approx. 180 x 230 mm., a few larger or smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of mostly American press agencies, with a few from British and French agencies. (A few light marginal creases.)

Many photographs show British soldiers and Palestine Police involved in joint patrols, manning guard posts, taking up firing positions, and two show destruction of Arab houses by the British in reprisal actions. The images are wide-ranging, including a ‘radiofoto’ of a burnt-out police station in Bethlehem, destruction of Jewish homes by Arab rioters on the border of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv, a derailed locomotive at Lydda Junction, a mounted patrol of the Royal Scots, and one of the construction of the port at Tel-Aviv. There are several images of the leaders of the Arab Rebellion, as well as British politicians, including Sir Harold MacMichael, Malcolm Macdonald and Sir Edmund Brockelbank.