Album of Photographs – HaShomer HaTza'ir in Lithuania, 1920s

Album of Photographs – HaShomer HaTza'ir in Lithuania, 1920s
Album of photographs formerly owned by Aharon Dinner, member of HaShomer HaTza'ir youth movement in Kovno (Kaunas). Kovno and elsewhere, 1920s and early 1930s.
The album contains photographs of hundreds of Jewish boys and girls, members of HaShomer HaTza'ir in Europe, wearing the movement's uniform, raising flags, during trips in the wild, at farewell parties for those immigrating to Palestine and during visits to branches of other Zionist movements (HaIvri HaTza'ir, The Zionist-Socialist Party, and more).
Mounted alongside most of the photographs are small notes giving the names of the people photographed, the branch ("Shachar", "Boneh", "Kibush"), the place and the year the picture was taken. Several photographs with additional note, inscribed to the owner of the album from the boy or girl appearing in the photograph (the notes are handwritten in Hebrew and Yiddish). The owner of the album is marked in some of the photographs (in pen).
Approx. 45 photographs, mounted to album (four photographs detached). Enclosed: dozens of additional photographs, in fragments, having been ripped off the album. The album: 33 cm. Photograph size and condition vary. Complete photographs in good-fair condition, with blemishes and stains (mainly to edges). Stains and blemishes to album. Several leaves detached. No front board and no spine.