Bercu Family
Family
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bercu Gross Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: B356
Overview
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.
Box 26, between 1917-1990
File
Identifier: B356.02.0026
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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.
Box 27, between 1940-2010
File — Box: B356.05.0027
Identifier: B356.05.0027
Scope and Contents
Contains three scrapbooks with photographs and travel souvenirs of the Mistachkin, Bercu, Gross and Horwitz families.
Box 48, 1929-2002
File — Box: B356.02.0048
Identifier: B356.02.0048
Scope and Contents
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).
Cookbook, circa 2000
File
Identifier: B356.05.0026.0010
Scope and Contents
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.
Extended Family, circa 2000
File
Identifier: B356.05.0026.0029
Scope and Contents
Folder contains pages from a magnetice photograph album with photographs of extended family.
Extended Family, circa 2000
File
Identifier: B356.05.0026.0030
Scope and Contents
Pages from photograph album of the extended families of Norman and Dorothy Bercu Gross.
Family Tree Chart, circa 2000
File
Identifier: B356.05.0026.0001
Scope and Contents
Contains family tree chart of the Bercu and Gross extended families. The chart does not contain dates.
Spanish Dancer, between 1925-1932
Item
Identifier: B356.01.0003.0013.00001
Overview
Dancer (possibly Dorothy Bercu) in a male Spanish Dance costume. Dorothy and Harryette Bercu performed on the Vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s.
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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B356, Bercu Gross Family Collection
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Vaudeville
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Box 3
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Dancer