About This Item


  • TitleTwo photographs, left to right: middle aged woman singing at mike, two middle aged women in kitchen.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0070
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySilvia "Sid" Sheber singing at Oscar's on the Lower East Side (left), and Silvia "Sid" Sheber with her friend Felice (no last name given) (right).
  • Date[1968?] (left), [1964?] (right)
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsportraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph digitized on October 3, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Iris Sheber at Kings Bay library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectWomen ; Singing ; Telephone
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)New York (N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.