Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs

Access and use

Location of collection:
George Mason University
2400 Fenwick Library
Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library MS2FL
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Mieko Palazzo
Phone: (703) 993-2220
Fax: (703) 993-2669
Restrictions:

There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

Public Domain. There are no known restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs, C0308, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.25 Linear Feet
Creator:
Ruben, Jacob, 1882-1974
Abstract:
16 silver gelatin prints of a brick building and several houses in Newburgh, New York by Jacob Ruben.
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs, C0308, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of sixteen 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" silver gelatin photographic prints dating from 1921-1922. Four of the photos depict a brick building under construction in 1921, and the other twelve depict homes and residential areas in 1921-1922.

4 photographs

12 photographs

Biographical / historical:

Photographer Jacob Ruben was born in Russia in 1882 to a Jewish family. The family came to America in the late 1880s (1910 US Census). Ruben and his wife Sarah lived in Newburgh, New York, a town in the Hudson Valley between New York City and Poughkeepsie, and had three children, Rachel, Harry, and Beatrice (1920 U.S. Census). According to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Ruben was a stationer/publisher, and he "became a well-known commercial photographer in the Hudson River Valley area near Newburgh for over four decades until after the Second World War." Ruben died in 1974 (Dumbarton Oaks Research Libary and Collection).

Acquisition information:
Purchased by Special Collections and Archives staff before January 2016.
Processing information:

Processing completed by Elizabeth Beckman in August 2017. EAD markup completed by Elizabeth Beckman in August 2017. Finding aid updated by Amanda Menjivar in September 2023.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in the order it was received.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard