http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/ruben.html Guide to the Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs, 1921-1922 Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs C0308 Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Beckman George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center August 14, 2017 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2017-08-14T13:33-0400 Description is in English Describing Archives: A Content Standard 2019-02-13 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. Descriptive Summary Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs C0308 George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center. English 0.25 linear ft. 1921-1922 16 silver gelatin prints of a brick building and several houses in Newburgh, New York by Jacob Ruben. Ruben, Jacob, 1882-1974 Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

 Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Jacob Ruben Newburgh, New York photographs must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

 Preferred Citation

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

 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.

 Biographical Information

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).

 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.

 Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the order it was received.

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 Index Terms Geographical Names: Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Newburgh (N.Y.) Subjects: Architecture Document Types: Gelatin silver prints Contents List 1 1 Construction of a brick building, 1921

4 photographs

1 1 Houses and residential images, 1921-1922

12 photographs