Collection of Documents - "Sha'ar Zion" Library in Tel-Aviv, 1920s

Collection of Documents - "Sha'ar Zion" Library in Tel-Aviv, 1920s
Archive containing about 200 documents from the period during which Avraham Kahana directed the "Sha'ar Zion" library in Tel-Aviv. Tel-Aviv, ca. 1924-1927.
An archive documenting the "Sha'ar Zion" library under the direction of Avraham Kahana. For more information about "Sha'ar Zion" library, see previous item.
Among the documents in this collection: * Autograph letter by Avraham Kahana, to the culture committee of Tel-Aviv municipality in which he proposes his services as chief librarian of "Sha'ar Zion" library (1924). * Detailed reports about the situation in the library, including lists with detailed comments handwritten by Avraham Kahana and by Azar. * Lists with historic data, general or professional, about the library. * Notebook and pamphlets with detailed protocols of library board meetings (among the participants: Ravnitzky, Rabinovich, Churgin, Kahana). * Leaf of "Statistics of readers who took books home during 1926" arranged according to months (details about books taken out by students, workers, clerks, free professions, non-professionals etc.). * A duty roster, written by hand. * List of books for acquisition. * Letter from Meir Dizengoff (on stationery of Ahad HaAm house) with notes handwritten by Shoshana Persitz, regarding 3000 books moved from "Sha'ar Zion" library to the library in Ahad HaAm house. * Letters of recommendation for potential workers for the library, among them an autograph letter by Meir Dizengoff and printed letters signed by him. * Letters about administrative matters - naming the library in the name of Levanda, budgets, allocating funds for JNF, appointment of workers, and more. * A stenciled letter, from the head of the publicity department of "Gdud Meginay HaSafah" in Tal-Aviv. * Letter from Avraham Kahana to his son, Uriel, in which he mentions library matters. * Letters concerning firing two workers in the library, including letters from Jaffa Workers' Council, invitation to a "Members Trial", copy of a verdict, letters from Meir Dizengoff and lists of claims handwritten by Kahana. * Additional items.
Total of about 200 documents. Size and condition vary. Some leaves in very good condition, and some in fair-poor condition (dark stains, rough tears).
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.