About This Item
- Call NumberBJHP_0091
- TitleThe Geller family. Young man standing in front of a farm in winter.
- SummaryMorris Geller, father of Harold, standing on the grounds of the family farmhouse at 1023 Sheffield Avenue in in 1927.
- Date1927
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPEG, black and white
- Genreblack-and-white photographs
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized on January 2021 as a JPEG. Donated by Harold Geller Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
- Biographical NoteThe families of Samuel (1879-1960) and Annie (nee Hanna Leah Gorbach, 1877-1947) Geller came to the United States from Poland/Russia at the end of the 19th Century. They settled in Brooklyn on a farm located at 1023 Sheffield Avenue. Samuel was a tailor and member of the United Garment Workers of America. Their children Irving (1906-1986), Benny (1910-1977), Morris (1912-1995), and sister Jean grew up on the farm. Morris, an automobile mechanic, opened a gas station with his brothers on their parents’ land around 1950. Morris married Minnie (nee Kaplan, 1916-1993) in 1944 and they had three sons: Richard (1945-2011), Allen (1950-) and Harold (1955-).
- CreatorGeller, Harold
- SubjectFarms
- CollectionBrooklyn Jewish History Project
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Cite AsBrooklyn Jewish History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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