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Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Images that are intended to portray one or more persons, fictitious characters, or mythological beings.

Found in 176 Collections and/or Records:

Framed Photograph - Portrait

 File
Identifier: D037.02.0007.0027
Abstract

File contains a large framed black and white photograph of a portrait of a woman.

Dates: 1900-1990

Fred Veston Paintings

 Collection
Identifier: B362
Abstract Fred Veston (1899-1980) was born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) and survived the Holocaust by fleeing east, until reaching Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). Seeing it was no better than Kraków. He then made his way to south western Poland and the Tatra Mountains, where Polish partisan groups continued to fight the German forces. He remained in the mountains until the end of the war in 1945. Overall 72 of Fred’s close and extended family were killed in the Holocaust. Fred married...
Dates: c. 1955-1980

General-lieutenant Zhavoronkov--frid00545

 Item
Identifier: frid00545
Abstract

General-lieutenant Zhavoronkov sitting at a desk, map on wall behind him, two phones behind him. Small airplane model in foreground on right.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925-1964

"Grandfather Radinsky" Oil Painting, circa 1950

 Item
Identifier: B371.01.0003.00001
Abstract

A framed oil painting of Jewish Rabbi, most likely Rabbi David Radinsky, identified on reverse as "Grandfather Radinsky by Jaq (?)." The script on the reverse isn't very clear but assuming it is the same artist as another identified portrait done by "Jaq" in the 1950s. Rabbi in protrait sits in floral upholstered chair next to small round table with maroon tablecoloth holding an open book in the table.

Dates: circa 1950

Grey and Byron Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B458
Abstract The Grey and Byron collection contains a variety of materials from the traveling Vaudeville pair, Dolly Grey and Bert Byron. Types of materials include clothing, accessories, jewelry, handgun, bullets, photographs, newspaper clippings, membership certificates, property documents, death certificates, scripts, poems, notes, short stories, sheet music, lyrics, general ledgers, pocket calendars, travel albums, and photo albums. Individuals included in this collection include Dolly Grey, Bert...
Dates: 1885 - 1964

Harry Lopas, 2003

 Item — Object B398.01.00001: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282299]
Identifier: B398.01.00001
Abstract

Framed drawing of Harry Lopas by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is largely black and white with yellow accents. Harry is looking off in the distance.

Dates: 2003

Helen Rudloff, undated

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0134.00001
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: undated

Henrietta Morris Portrait, 1860

 Item
Identifier: B460.0001.0001.00003
Abstract

A photograph of a portrait of Henrietta Morris, mother of Max Morris, in the 1860s.

Dates: 1860

Henry Lowenstein in Uniform, circa 1950

 Item
Identifier: B333.08.0003.00002
Abstract

Charcoal sketch of service man with dress hat on. Man is wearing glasses and rests his chin in his hand. Henry served in the US Army from 1950-1953.

Dates: circa 1950

Hunger, 1945

 Item
Identifier: B333.08.0003.00005
Abstract

Charcoal drawing on paper of young woman sitting on single bed (Maria Loewenstein's daughter Karin Steinberg. Her shoulders are hunched and her lower arms rest on the top her thighs. She looks off behind the artist’s right side with a vacant stare. The bed has a pillow and blanket but the rest of the area is bare. The drawing was done on wall paper with charcoal from bombed buildings in Berlin.

Dates: 1945