Beck Archives Businesses Collection
Abstract
The Businesses Collection reflects the diverse role Jews played in the economic growth of the American West, particularly within Colorado. It includes a paper on Jewish businesses and articles and documents from and about a variety of businesses, dating from 1890 to 2007.
Dates
- Coverage: 1861-2015
- Majority of material found in 1920-1985
Creator
- University of Denver. Center for Judaic Studies. Ira M. Beck Memorial Collection of Rocky Mountain Jewish History (Organization)
Language of Materials
Biographical / Historical
The businesses represented in the Collection include the J.L. Brown Hide Company owned by Benjamin Sosny in the 1920s; Dave Cook's Sporting Goods Store; Dewey Liquor Co.; Feld Hardware and Sforim; The Queen City Scrap Iron Company established by A. Goodstein in Denver in the 1890s; The May Company founded by David May in 1877; Miller and Melnick Ranch; Rockmount Ranch Wear founded by Jack Weil in the 1940s; Robinson Dairy established by Louis Robinson in 1885; the Sartoga Mines Company founded by Phillip J. Ragooland; Schachet Mercantile founded in 1918 by Eli Schachet and his sons; Star West Productions established by the Pettit brothers in the 1970s; the Union State Bank; and Weisbart Ranch which was turned from a cattle ranch into a fish farm.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box and one document in map case) : Full Legal Document Box
Scope and Contents
Arrangement
- Breweries
- Business enterprises
- Dairy farms
- Food service
- Green's Dry Goods Store (Antonito, Colo.)
- History
- Jewish businesspeople
- Jewish businesspeople -- Colorado
- Jewish businesspeople -- Colorado -- Denver
- Jewish merchants
- May Department Stores Company
- Mines and mineral resources
- Ranching
- Saliman's Bar and Grill
- Schachet Mercantile Company (Denver, Colo.) (1918-1981)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository