About This Item

  • Call NumberGRDN_0201
  • Title[Elka and Abraham Israel]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GRDN 0202), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Elka Israel, chairman of the West Flatbush C. V. O. Victory Garden Committee, and her husband, Abraham, working in a community vegetable garden. 0201 shows them with cabbages and, 0202, with corn.
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: "Photograph by Bernard Ravitz; date: 0201: Aug. 26, 1945; 0202: Aug. 12, 1945. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCabbage -- New York (State) -- New York ; Corn -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vegetable gardening -- New York (State) -- New York ; Victory gardens -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Gardens: Victory gardens