About This Item
- TitleMorris Yankelwoitz
- Call NumberSWEL_0184
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Rosh ha-Shana began yesterday ... Photograph shows Morris Yankelwoitz blowing ram's horn [shofar] to signify event. He is an inmate of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Orphan Asylum." Image includes four other elderly men. Note: It is assumed that the name of this institution is really Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged.
- Date1937
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 6/37; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectBrooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) ; Old age homes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rosh ha-Shanah ; Shofar
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (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.