Mounted photograph of the Hermann Lichtenstein Monument Works, New York, N.Y., 1909.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Busch Endowed Judaica Fund.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Hermann Lichtenstein Monument Works (New York, N.Y.)--20th century--Photographs.

Hermann Lichtenstein Monument Works (New York, N.Y.).

Stone carvers--New York (State)--New York--20th century--Photographs.

Stone carvers.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--20th century--Photographs.

Jews.

Genre:

Documentary photographs.

original photographs.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by gallerybfa (Prospect, Pennsylvania), 2023.

Physical Description:

1 item : photograph ; 30 x 26 cm; 20 x 15 cm (photograph)

Production:

[New York, N.Y.], 1909.

Language Note:

Caption in photograph in English and Yiddish.

Summary:

Mounted sepia photograph of the Hermann Lichtenstein Monument Works (text of sign: הערמאן ליכטענשטיין מצבות, מאנומענטעס, אונד געיטס = Hermann Lichtenstein Monument Works); manager and staff posing in front of a fresh gravestone ("Marcus S. Appelbaum, 1837-1909, = מרדכי שמואל ב"ר אהרן"); additional statues and gravestones in background of photo.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Busch Endowed Judaica Fund.

Cited as:

Mounted photograph of the Hermann Lichtenstein Monument Works, New York, N.Y., 1909 (UPenn CAJS ARC Misc Mss 000.225.14). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1481975766