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Jew New Year - Boot Black – Vintage Wall Art

Jew New Year - Boot Black, n/a — historic photograph
Jew New Year - Boot Black, n/a. Historic photograph from the New Year 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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A window into the past: Jew New Year - Boot Black, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A shoe-shine stand and a Jewish New Year observance are the two subjects this glass negative pairs, according to its title. The title, "Jew New Year - Boot Black," was written by Bain News Service staff, whose George Grantham Bain Collection holds many street and holiday scenes from the early 1900s, but the label is unverified, so the date and exact location remain uncertain. Rosh Hashanah falls in early autumn, and the pairing suggests a city street where Jewish families and working bootblacks shared the same sidewalks. Pictures like this offer a glimpse of everyday commerce in immigrant neighborhoods of the period.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,754 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-11875

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