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Jews - New York City - praying on Brooklyn Bridge [i.e., Williamsburg Bridge], New Years Day – Antique Wall Art

Jews - New York City - praying on Brooklyn Bridge [i.e., Williamsburg Bridge], New Years Day, 1909 — historic photograph
Jews - New York City - praying on Brooklyn Bridge [i.e., Williamsburg Bridge], New Years 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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Men in prayer shawls and dark coats gather on a bridge walkway in this 1909 photograph, marking the Jewish New Year, which the caption gives as New Year's Day. The original caption named the Brooklyn Bridge, but a later identification by a researcher places the scene on the Williamsburg Bridge, which opened in 1903 and linked the crowded Lower East Side to Brooklyn. The Bain News Service, a wire photo agency, made the picture, and its negatives later entered the Library of Congress. Pictures like this one show how Jewish immigrant families carried their religious observance into the public spaces of their daily lives in New York.

Created / published1909
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Identified as Williamsburg Bridge by I. Wolfman, 2003. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Relig.--Prayer; Holidays--Jewish New Year--1909; NY--NYC--Misc.--1909; NY--NYC--Brooklyn Bridge [sic]--1909; Jews--NY--NYC--1909; Geogr.; Judaism; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,256 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145976

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