Guldman, Leopold Henry, 1852-1936
Person
Biography
Leopold H. Guldman was an early Jewish businessman in Colorado. After opening Golden Eagle Dry Goods stores in Leadville and Cripple Creek, he moved to Denver in 1879 and opened the third and most successful Golden Eagle store. He was one of the founders of Beth Israel Hospital, Temple Emanuel, and National Jewish Hospital. He also founded the Guldman Community Center in 1934 on West Colfax in Denver, which later became part of the Denver Jewish Community Center. He was born December 18, 1852 and died in Denver in 1936. He was proprietor of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Store
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Beck Archives Microfilm and Microforms Collection
Collection
Identifier: B117
Abstract
The Rocky Mountain News microfilmed records and recived some microfilms from other organizations. Collection contains microfilmed copies of the following publications and organizations: the Intermountain Jewish News, records from the Jewish community in Colorado Springs, a William S. Friedman Scrapbook, the Rose Hill Cemetery Association, the Denver Jewish Outlook, the American Israelite, the American Jewish Archives Files,, the I.M. Beck Microfilming Project of Colorado Jewish History,...
Dates:
Other: 1800-2014
Bloomfield Park Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: B130
Abstract
Sam Bloomfield had a fish market in Bloomfield Park (now Rude Park) that catered to the Orthodox Jews in the West Colfax area. In the early 1920s, philanthropists Isadore Rude, Leopold Guldman, and Mary Reed bought the land and deeded it to the City and County of Denver. The collection contains a scrapbook with articles about a Mesa county scandel involving murder and fish, Sam Bloomfield and his fish market, the West Side neighborhood, and various groups that met at the Park. The scrapbook...
Dates:
Other: 1901-1922
Box 1, 1937-1953
File — Box B156.01.0001: Series B156.01; Series B156.02 [Barcode: U186020758584]
Identifier: B156.02.0001
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence from Germany of Ludwig Beckhart, the Feldner family, the Kasper Family, the Neubauer family, the Rosenbaum family, the Salomon family, the Schiff family, the Spier family, the Stark family, the Wolff family, and the Zacharias family. The families were trying to get assistance to get out of Germany from the estate of Leopold H. Guldman, who was a wealthy businessman in Denver, his widow Bertha Guldman, and their son-in-law Jacob L. Wolff. Wolff and his...
Dates:
1937-1953
Collection on Guldman Family and Golden Eagle Dry Goods
Collection
Identifier: B294
Abstract
Leopold H. Guldman was born in Harburg, Bavaria in 1853 and immigrated to the United States in 1870. He was one of Colorado's leading merchants and philanthropists. Guldman came to the Colorado mountains in search of silver, but found it more profitable to open the Golden Eagle clothing stores in Leadville and Cripple Creek. In 1879, Guldman moved to Denver and opened his third and most successful Golden Eagle enterprise, which for many years was Denver's leading popular-price department...
Dates:
between 1894-2013
Glass-Beaded Drawstring Purse, circa 1925
Item
Identifier: B294.02.0002.00002
Abstract
This blue glass-beaded purse on blue cloth with drawstring and beaded tassel at the bottom, was sold at Leopold Guldman's Golden Eagle Dry Goods store in Denver, Colorado. There is still a tag from the Golden Eagle Dry Goods store attached to the purse. Leopold Guldman opened the Denver Golden Eagle Dry Goods store in 1879 on Sixteenth Avenue and Lawrence Street in downtown Denver and was the first merchant to locate a large store on Sixteenth. The purse was made in Czechoslovakia in the...
Dates:
circa 1925
Going Out of Business Sale at the Golden Eagle, 1941
Item
Identifier: B063.01.0001.00011
Abstract
The final day of the Denver Golden Eagle's Going Out of Business Sale. A large crowd of people stand in the street and the Denver Police Department is on hand to maintain the crowd. Leopold H. Guldman was the founder of the Golden Eagle store.
Dates:
1941
Golden Eagle Good Luck Token, 1935
Item
Identifier: B294.02.0002.00001
Abstract
Golden Eagle Dry Goods store tokens were given out to customers of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company in the 1930s. Leopold Guldman opened the Denver Golden Eagle Dry Goods store in 1879 on 16th and Lawrence streets. This store token has a Lincoln penny (1935) mounted in a tin circle inscribed with a horseshoe and four-leaf clover. In raised lettering with the horseshoe is inscribed "Keep me and you will have good luck." On the reverse of the tin circle is inscribed in raised lettering...
Dates:
1935
Guldman Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: B156
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence from Germany of Ludwig Beckhart, the Feldner family, the Kasper Family, the Neubauer family, the Rosenbaum family, the Salomon family, the Schiff family, the Spier family, the Stark family, the Wolff family, and the Zacharias family. The families were trying to get assistance to get out of Germany from the estate of Leopold H. Guldman, who was a wealthy businessman in Denver, his widow Bertha Guldman, and their son-in-law Jacob L. Wolff. Wolff and his...
Dates:
1937-1953
Jewish Community Center Records
Collection
Identifier: B179
Abstract
The Jewish Community Center originated in 1922 as part of a nationwide movement to provide cultural and athlectic activities to local Jewish communities. The Center operated in various locations until a new location was opened at East Alameda and Dahlia. In 1995, after extensive renovation, the Center was dedicated as the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center. Collection contains programs, publications, events, ephemera, architectural plans and administrative papers from the Jewish...
Dates:
1934-1975
L. H. Guldman, circa 1931
File
Identifier: B063.08.0029.0002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains materials intentionally assembled by the Ira M. and Peryle Hayutin Beck Memorial Archives of Jews in the Rocky Mountain region. The bulk of the photographs are from or related to various towns in Colorado, but the collection also contains photographs from other states in the western United States and other countries. There are some 19th century photograph types represented in the collection, including albumen prints, daguerrotypes, tintypes, post cards, colorized...
Dates:
circa 1931
Additional filters:
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- Archival Object 11
- Collection 6
- Subject
- Denver (Colo.) 12
- Colorado 9
- Jews 5
- Department stores 4
- Jewish businesspeople 4
- Jewish merchants 4
- Jewish families -- Colorado 3
- Social life and customs 3
- Central City (Colo.) 2
- Colorado Springs (Colo.) 2
- Correspondence 2
- Dry-goods 2
- Jewish community centers 2
- Jewish men 2
- Jews -- Colorado -- Denver 2
- Merchants 2
- Oral histories 2
- Architectural documents 1
- Businesspeople 1
- Community life 1
- Cripple Creek (Colo.) 1
- Czechoslovakia 1
- Documents on microfilm 1
- Education 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Colorado 1
- Fish markets 1
- Fishmongers 1
- Floods 1
- Fort Collins (Colo.) 1
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1
- Immigrants 1
- Immigrants -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Jewish businesspeople -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Jewish camps 1
- Jewish children 1
- Jewish men -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Jewish newspapers 1
- Jewish way of life 1
- Jewish women 1
- Jews -- Germany 1
- Law offices -- Records and correspondence 1
- Leadville (Colo.) 1
- Mikveh 1
- Montana 1
- Philanthropists 1
- Photographs 1
- Pueblo (Colo.) 1
- Schools 1
- Sculpture 1
- Stores, Retail 1
- Tokens 1
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.) 1 + ∧ less
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