Pictures

Historical pictures of Homestead and its former residents. Check out the collections of family and business pictures. If you don’t see your family represented, please contact me so I can fix that!

Rabbi Widom and Cheder Students

A photograph of Rabbi Widom, two of his sons, and other Hebrew school students in the early 1920s.

Postcard of Homestead Hebrew Congregation c. 1917

An image of the synagogue on a postcard sent a few years after it was built!

The Spade Used at the 1913 Groundbreaking

Yes, it’s a picture of a shovel, but not just any shovel. It’s a very important shovel!

The Only Pictures of the First Synagogue

These hand-drawn maps of Homestead suggest the appearance of the first synagogue and its proximity to the main Jewish area.

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