New York City 4

In his account of the Ross family’s 1938-1939 sojourn in the US Ross’s son  Ralph Colin writes that he and his parents left Bremerhaven on October 10, 1938 for a five-day voyage on the ss Europe to New York; Ross’s biographer, on the other hand, writes that they left on October 17.^1-2 A day after their arrival Ralph Colin went on to Chicago to attend school, while Colin Ross and his wife Lisa stayed in New York, at the Biltmore Hotel, from where they traveled within and without the city.

This brief sequence shows a few trees with foliage, suggesting that it was shot in November. Ross stayed in New York until early December 1938. On December 2, 1938, he wrote a letter on his hotel’s stationary (see Permission requested) to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., where he would have an appointment on December 6.