About This Item

  • TitleJewish Family Welfare Society
  • Call NumberSWEL_0243
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "The United Jewish Aid Societies, whose central office at 1095 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, is pictured, has changed its name to the Jewish Family Welfare Society, according to an announcement by Mortimer Schwager, president. The society, sole family welfare agency of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, was founded thirty years ago." Image includes one parked automobile in right foreground.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: 1938. Photographer's name stamped on verso. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrowning, Irving
  • SubjectJewish Family Welfare Society (New York, N.Y.) ; Automobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Jews -- Societies, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Social service -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.