Marinoff Family, 1893

The photograph shows Meyer Marinoff, his second wife Schonechaya, her daughter Sarah at the left of the photograph, and the children of Meyer and his first wife Leah Marinoff. The children of Meyer and Leah Marinoff identified in the photograph are Israel (Mike), Jacob, Louis, Sam and Fania. Leah Marinoff died shortly after Fania was born. A women in the photograph is identified as Libby. The Marinoffs in the photograph immigrated to Boston in the mid 1890s. Fania Marinoff was orphaned at an early age and was sent to live in Denver with her brothers Mike and Jacob. She moved to New York in 1903 and became an actress.

The above information is taken from the original photograph and 2 copies of a family photograph taken in Odessa, Russian Empire. A copy of the original photograph and the matting has the location as Odessa in Russian.