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ליום העצמאות = Israel Independence Day = Le Jour de L'Independance d'Israel = Dia de la Independencia de Israel

Description:
A boy in a blue kova tembel hat and blue and white striped shirt, and a girl in a yellow dress and a yellow hair bow, are holding a huge bouquet of colorful flowers. Behind them are confetti, banners, and streamers. Four Israeli flags fly with some stylized fireworks going off behind them. A small menorah is in the top center of the poster. Background of the poster is orange.
Date:
[between 1940 and 1979]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Collection of Zionist Posters Promoting Israel to Diaspora Jews, 1940-1979
ליום העצמאות = Israel Independence Day = Le Jour de L'Independance d'Israel = Dia de la Independencia de Israel

ארץ ישראל = Eretz Israel

Description:
Poster is a map of Eretz Israel, depicting Keren Kayemeth and other Jewish lands, "musha" (land held in joint ownership) with Keren Kayemeth and private individuals, Jewish settlements, Arab localities, settlements established by Keren Hayesod, settlements subsidized by Keren Hayesod, and settlements with individual settlers receiving Keren Hayesod subsidies.
Date:
[1940s]
Resource Type:
still image
cartographic
Collection:
Collection of Zionist Posters Promoting Israel to Diaspora Jews, 1940-1979
ארץ ישראל = Eretz Israel

בלול = The chicken coop = Dans le poulailler = En el corral

Description:
Four children in a chicken yard. One boy in a striped shirt and blue shorts and a teal kova tembel hat holds two buckets. One girl in a purple kerchief and green dress holds a bowl of chicken feed and is dropping feed for the chickens. A boy in a green kova tembel hat, plaid shirt and green pants drops feed for the chickens. A blonde girl in a teal and purple dress runs in the background. A chicken coop with three ramps is in the background. A rooster perches on a water dish in the foreground of the poster. Poster is primarily brown, green, and blue.
Date:
[between 1940 and 1979]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Collection of Zionist Posters Promoting Israel to Diaspora Jews, 1940-1979
בלול = The chicken coop = Dans le poulailler = En el corral

במטעי הבננות = In the banana plantation = Dans les bananeraies = En el platanal

Description:
Five children and a man with a banana cart. Three boys are holding banana bunches, bringing them to the cart. Two boys wear blue kova tembel hats, one wears a yellow straw hat. One girl with pigtails, wearing a yellow straw hat, sits on the cart, eating a banana. Another girl with a purple, flowered headscarf has a smaller cart, bringing a banana bunch to the cart. The man is the cart driver, holding the reins to his brown donkey, waiting for the children to load the bananas. He wears a green kova tembel hat. Poster is primarily green, blue, and yellow.
Date:
[between 1940 and 1979]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Collection of Zionist Posters Promoting Israel to Diaspora Jews, 1940-1979
במטעי הבננות = In the banana plantation = Dans les bananeraies = En el platanal

עופות = Poultry = Volaille = Aves

Description:
A dark-haired boy in a red kova tembel hat, blue shirt, and red-brown shorts stands by a pond carrying a basket of greens. A blonde girl in a red and white striped shirt and red shorts kneels by the pond, throwing bread crumbs into the pond. In and around the pond are ducks, swans, turkeys, and a frog on a lily pad. A red-roofed coop is in the background.
Date:
[between 1940 and 1979]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Collection of Zionist Posters Promoting Israel to Diaspora Jews, 1940-1979
עופות = Poultry = Volaille = Aves

Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba

Description:
This fine old fortress of solid stone was built in 1587 by Philip II of Spain of whiom it was said: "the Sun never sets on his dominions." In 1762 the English attacked Havana and this fort made a glorious defense, being assaulted by land. The tower was built in 1844 for a lighthouse. Morro Castle being no longer needed as a fortress, is now used as a Military Academy.
Date:
circa 1900-1969
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cuban Ephemera
Cuba Collections
Latin American & Caribbean Collections
Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba

Fraternity Park, Havana, Cuba

Description:
Cuban telephone co. bldg. in the background. As a remembrance of the VI Pan-American Conference, the Fraternity Tree was planted in this square, which has taken this name. Secretary of P.W., Mr. Cespedes, has made great success in planning this handsome square of Parisian lines built in the tropics, with tropical gardens and plants and colonial details. Havana is continually beautifying herself: this is only the start. Sooner or later Havana will be the prettiest city of all of the Americas. Come again.
Date:
circa 1928-1965
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cuban Ephemera
Cuba Collections
Latin American & Caribbean Collections
Fraternity Park, Havana, Cuba