About This Item


  • Call NumberBJHP_0101
  • SummaryPlane flown by Morris Geller in World War II.
  • Date[1941-1945]
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPEG, black and white
  • Creator[unknown]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Jewish History Project
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Jewish History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatstill image
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized in January 2021 as a JPEG. Donated by Harold Geller Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
  • SubjectUnited States Army Force ; World War, 1939-1945--United States
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleThe Geller family. Pictures of a military plane.
  • Biographical NoteThe families of Samuel (1879-1960) and Annie (nee Hanna Leah Gorbach, 1877-1947) Geller came to the United States from Poland/Russia at the end of the 19th Century. They settled in Brooklyn on a farm located at 1023 Sheffield Avenue. Samuel was a tailor and member of the United Garment Workers of America. Their children Irving (1906-1986), Benny (1910-1977), Morris (1912-1995), and sister Jean grew up on the farm. Morris, an automobile mechanic, opened a gas station with his brothers on their parents’ land around 1950. Morris married Minnie (nee Kaplan, 1916-1993) in 1944 and they had three sons: Richard (1945-2011), Allen (1950-) and Harold (1955-).