Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: DU scope note: Use for objects that actually are photographic prints on light-sensitive paper, or scans of photographic negatives or prints. For for originals, copies and scans of transparencies and slides, use: Slides (Photography) (lcsh). For works ABOUT photographs (diaries, logs, instructions, criticism, ...) use Photographs (lcsh).AAT scope note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. It does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Portrait of Henry Plonsky, between 1920-1930
Item
Identifier: B063.08.0016.00025
Abstract
Henry Plonsky sits, wearing a suit and holding a document in his hand. Polish-born Plonsky arrived in Denver in 1877. He helped form an Orthodox minyan above his store on Larimer Street. He became a successful shoe and boot merchant in partnership with Leopold Mayer and was instrumental in the establishment of the Orthodox Jewish congregation Ahavey Emunah in 1880 and later the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol Synagogue and the Beth Joseph congregation.
Dates:
between 1920-1930