7 and ¼” x 9 and ⅜”, textured burgundy paper wrapper with string binding. Contains 24 brown paper leaves with 64 black and white photographs measuring 5 ¼” x 3 ¼” or smaller, and one larger black and white photograph measuring 7 ¾” x 4”. Also contains three newspaper clippings. Most photos have captions handwritten in German. Front pastedown reads “Jaffa und Umgebung Personalbilder” or “Jaffa and surrounding area staff photos.” Album belonged to German-Jewish settlers living in Mandatory Palestine, ca. 1924. Contains photos of the “Blau Weiss” or “Blue and White” organization, a German-Jewish youth organization, that promoted settlement and vocational training in Palestine after WWI, including the Kibbutz Kwuza Zwi. Photos of the Blau Weiss include the installation of a shoe factory in the Work Station; one member preparing food for the work station; Turnfest [a gymnastics festival], Passover 1924; two members doing construction in a rural area; and Blau Weiss Conference near Tel Aviv, 1924. Also included are several photos of Ernst Simon, who would go on to found Brit Shalom. Photos of Simon are undated, all but one (which shows him working in a rural area near Tiberias) have no caption. One photo shows him on a trip to the Sphinx in Egypt. Additionally, the album includes many photos of Mandate Palestine including Arab villages, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Jenin, Jericho, and Mt. Carmel. Several photos are included of Palestinians, including villagers, a man on horseback, a water seller, and several photos of a camel caravan. Also includes photos of the Arab government police, a Bedouin, and sailors flying a Turkish flag. A few of these photos contain captions written directly onto the image in white in English or Hebrew, or appear to be postcard with stamped text in English or Hebrew. The pasted in newspaper clipping is undated and reads in German “Newspaper clipping reads “Kindergarten in Nahalal, the largest smallholder settlement (moshav) on National Fund land in the heart of Emek Jezrell, which is already self-sustaining after seven years of existence.” Two additional newspaper clippings are tipped in at the end, both photographs of settlements, without dates or captions. Item #601005