Rebecca Lepkoff Photograph Collection 1930's-1950's, 1970's

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Rebecca Lepkoff Photograph Collection 1930's-1950's, 1970's

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/lepkoff/lepkoff.html

This collection consists of approximately 74 photographs of the Lower East Side taken by Rebecca Lepkoff, primarily in the 1940's.

2.09 Linear feet; (2 boxes)

New-York Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6330632

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Lepkoff, Rebecca

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Rebecca Lepkoff (nee Brody) was born to Russian Jewish immigrants on the Lower east Side in 1916. Her parents emigrated from Minsk in 1910 and settled in a tenement apartment on Hester Street. As the family grew (Rebecca would eventually have five siblings), they moved from tenement to tenement but always within a few block radius. Lepkoff's father worked as a tailor; when Lepkoff was about 11 years old, her mother suffered a nervous breakdown which left her unable to properly care ...