About This Item
- TitleRosh ha-Shanah
- Call NumberHOLI_0085
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Truly devout and humble, this elderly woman praying to have her sins washed away into the ocean at Brighton Beach, a religious rite of the Rosh ha-Shanah season, declined to give the cameraman her name or address."
- Date1938
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 27, 1938; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBeaches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Judaism -- Customs and practices -- New York (State) -- New York ; Prayer -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rosh ha-Shanah
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrighton Beach (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.