THE BRITISH ARMY & THE ARAB REBELLION, 1936-1939

Unusual images of Palestine taken during the Arab Rebellion.

[Photograph album. Palestine: c. 1938.] 166 original photographs, the majority 65 x 90 mm., ink captions on paper slips to most of the photographs, 25 leaves, oblong 4to (175 x 254 mm.) (two images missing, photos occasionally curled at edges). Contemporary cloth-backed olive-wood decorative souvenir binder (extremities faintly rubbed).

The first leaf contains the rare illicit postage stamp with the motto 'Palestine for the Arabs' over which 2 photographs are pasted. This album contains some rare images, including: 8 of the engine sheds and sidings of the Palestine railway at Kishon, Haifa; a (?)Scouts procession in Acre; 4 shots of the road to Jerusalem evidently taken from a moving bus; and 5 images of military camps, with one captioned ‘Aussie Camp’. The photographs geographically cover Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Acre, Haifa and Tiberias, with one of Tyre in Syria, and 7 of Egypt, including some of Ismalia; the album concludes with 11 images of Cape Town. Some of the images are souvenir-trade photographs.