Gift Containers for Shipment to Armed Forces Overseas, circa 1944

Item

Identifier: B063.04.0029.0004.00001

Staff Only

Abstract

Ben Blumberg and Sidney Jacobs, dressed in suits, stand on either side of a truck loaded with packages for B'nai B'rith servicemen during World War II. Ben Blumberg and Sydney Jacobs were leaders in the Denver chapter of B'nai B'rith. The truck is from Tom's Express, a moving company and is parked in front of an inn.

Dates

circa 1944

Digital Repository

Gift Containers for Shipment to Armed Forces Overseas

Inscription and Marks

Handwritten on the back of the photograph: ''L.-R, Ben Blumberg - 'Gift Containers for shipment to Armed Forces Overseas,' Sydney [sic] Jacobs, Mailed out packages of things the servicemen needed to all members of B'nai B'rith who were in the service.''

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Extent

1 Photographic Prints (photograph) : fair, black and white ; 16 x 20 inches

Additional Description

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 prints, cabinet cards, and cartes-de-visite.