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[Jews praying on Williamsburg Bridge, New York City, on New Year's Day] – Vintage Print

[Jews praying on Williamsburg Bridge, New York City, on New Year's Day], [1909] — historic photograph
[Jews praying on Williamsburg Bridge, New York City, on New Year's Day], [1909]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Worshippers gather on the Williamsburg Bridge in this 1909 view, a spot that was unusual for prayer. The bridge, which opened in 1903, linked the crowded Lower East Side of Manhattan with Williamsburg in Brooklyn, two neighborhoods with large Jewish immigrant communities at the time. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs taken in New York in the early 1900s. The negative is damaged, so the scene is softer and less detailed than the subject deserves.

Created / published[1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Bridge identified as Williamsburg by I. Wolfman, 2003. George Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsJews--Spiritual life--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. New Year--1900-1910. Williamsburg Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,134 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170761

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