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Immigrants

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Hyman Zadek Salomon , 1969

 File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0002
Abstract

Hyman Z. Salomon was born in 1832 in Posen, Prussia. He moved to what was then the city of Auraria, now Denver, in 1859 and is claimed to be the first Jewish settler in Colorado. He married Cecilia Joel and the couple had two daughters. Hyman originally set up as a mercantile man but he was also involved with the Capitol Hydraulic Company, the Platte River Ditch Company, and several other businesses in Denver along with his brother, Fred Z. Salomon. Hyman passed away on November 21, 1897.

Dates: 1969
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 9, S-V / Box 9

Immigration Documents and Portrait of the Dolinsky Family, between 1900-1920

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00017
Abstract

Composite photograph featuring a Polish passport and document along with a Dolinsky family portrait. The portrait photograph includes: Nechama (Mollie) Dolinsky Goldberg, her father and two brothers. This composite photograph was probably taken in the 1970s, however the documents and portrait date to around 1910.

Dates: between 1900-1920
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 5

Immigration Documents and Portrait of the Dolinsky Family, between 1900-1920

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00019
Abstract

Composite photograph featuring a Polish passport and document along with a Dolinsky family portrait. The portrait photograph includes: Nechama (Mollie) Dolinsky Goldberg, her father and two brothers. This composite photograph was probably taken in the 1970s, however the documents and portrait date to around 1910.

Dates: between 1900-1920
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 5

Jack Welniarz (Welner), 1945-1950

 File
Identifier: B266.03.0002.0010
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence in Yiddish and official correspondence and documents in English from Abe Winograd about getting his nieces and nephews from Displaced Persons camps in Europe.

Dates: 1945-1950
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B266, Winograd Judd Family Papers / Winograd Documents and Papers / Box 2

Jacob Fleischer, 1870-1912, 1996

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Identifier: B111.03.0003.0016
Abstract Jacob Fleischer (1846/7-?, Ancestry.com) was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States between 1865 and 1870. He was naturalized in 1871, in Morgan County, Illinois. In 1882, Fleischer married Rosa Harthleimer (sp?) Fleischer in Colorado. Jacob purchased a parcel of seven lots in Denver on what is now stretching from Alameda north down Leyden. Fleischer appears to have worked with the Denver Brewing Company, and he went on a trip to California in 1899 to visit the California Wine...
Dates: 1870-1912; 1996
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 3, D-F / Box 3

Jewish Relief Society, 1903-1911

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Identifier: B171.01.0001.0001
Abstract

Contains correspondence between the Industrial Removal Office, the Colorado Committee, and Jewish charities, primarily the Jewish Relief Society of Denver.

Dates: 1903-1911
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B171, Industrial Removal Office Colorado Correspondence / Correspondence / Box 1

Joseph, Solomon, 1880-circa 1992

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Identifier: B111.09.0009.0013
Abstract Joseph Solomon was born in Essen, Prussia on May 14, 1840. He moved to Nashville when he was 19 and opened a clothing store there. He married Emma Adler in 1865 and moved to Kentucky 9 years later with their 3 children. They moved again to Denver in 1878, now with 6 children, and Joseph opened a pawn and loan business and helped to found the early Jewish congregations in Denver. He operated a dry goods business for the miners in Alma, CO and owned the "Daisy Mine." He died in 1901 of what...
Dates: 1880-circa 1992
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 9, S-V / Box 9

Julius Basinski, 1963

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Identifier: B111.01.0001.0022
Abstract Julius Basinski authorted 22 pages of reminisences about his life as a merchant in the Montana mining fields. Born in 1844 in Germany, Basinski emigrated in 1866 and dealt in cigars, candy, butter, eggs, calico, and other provisions in various Montana communities, iincluding Helena, Bozeman, and Miles City in the Yellowstone Valley. He sold goods to the U.S. Army, was one of the first book dealers in Miles City, raised sheep, had a banking career, and was noted for his honesty. He later...
Dates: 1963
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 1, A-B / Box 1

Kagan Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B187
Abstract Alexander Kagan was born in Paris, France in 1906 to Russian parents. At the age of 14, Alexander began work as a fabric and jewelry designer. He came to the United States in 1922 with his mother Chana (Anna) and his brother Haim Persah (Paul). He worked as a fabric designer in New York and in 1930 he became a US citizen. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Pueblo, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1954 and died in the Denver area in 1994....
Dates: 1895-1980
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Kagan Family Papers

Lang Family

 File
Identifier: B111.06.0006.0012
Scope and Contents

Folder contains one typed page of family history written by Josephine Lang Tanzer.

Dates: 1879-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 6, J-L / Box 6

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