About This Item


  • Call NumberBJHP_0081
  • SummaryFront row, left to right: Samuel, Ida and Louis Sillin. Back row, left to right: two unknown women and Sarah Horowitz, sister of Ida. Group posed in front of beach backdrop in photographer's studio, Coney Island.
  • Date[1917?]
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, 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 on December 2019 as a TIFF. Donated for capture anonymously Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
  • SubjectPortraits, group
  • PlaceConey Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleA Gravesend family. Four women and two boys in bathing suits posing in front of a studio backdrop of beach in Coney Island.