About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0541
  • TitleFramed studio portrait of mother and daughter dressed for her first communion.
  • SummaryPortrait of Mary Ventura with her mother Mamie Ventura on the occasion of Mary's first communion. Decorative frame has photographer's stamp: "Rudnick's Studio, 729 Grand St., Brooklyn, N.Y.".
  • Date[1935?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsstudio portraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 6, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Robert Iannuzzi at Green-Wood Cemetery. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • CreatorRudnick's Studio
  • SubjectGirls ; Women ; First communion ; Clothing and dress
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.