Bercu Family

The material in the collection includes items, photographs, and papers related to Dorothy Bercu Gross and her husband Norman Gross, her extended family, and her Vaudeville career in the 1920s and 1930s. Her father owned the Chicago Hide, Fur and Wool Company in Douglas, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado. The collection spans from the late 1800s to 2015 and illustrates an extended Jewish family and vaudeville performers.

The collection includes papers, records, correspondence, photographs, photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspapers and newspaper clippings, framed photographs, documents, quilts and needlework, Vaudeville costumes and instruments, books, and record albums.

Contains three scrapbooks with photographs and travel souvenirs of the Mistachkin, Bercu, Gross and Horwitz families.

Contains scrapbook (1930s and 1940s); Harold (Bob) Bercu photograph and correspondence (circa 1945); Norman Mistachkin (1935); George Bercu photograph (circa 1925); pencil drawing of Dorothy Bercu (2002) and George Bercu Masonic documents (1929).

Contains "Generations of Recipes" cookbook created by Valerie Gross Schreiber. The cookbook has recipes from memebers of the extended Bercu and Gross families and also photographs.

Folder contains pages from a magnetice photograph album with photographs of extended family.

Pages from photograph album of the extended families of Norman and Dorothy Bercu Gross.

Contains family tree chart of the Bercu and Gross extended families. The chart does not contain dates.

Dancer (possibly Dorothy Bercu) in a male Spanish Dance costume. Dorothy and Harryette Bercu performed on the Vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s.