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Butchers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Interior of Phil Brown's Kosher Butcher Shop, circa 1927

 Item
Identifier: B063.01.0009.00001
Abstract

Interior of Phil Brown's Kosher Butcher Shop. Phil Brown is standing behind the counter with an unidentified man. The shop was located in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1927

Jacob and Charlotte Gordon and their Daughters, circa 1920

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Identifier: B063.05.0013.00016
Abstract Jacob and Charlotte Gordon stand in front of a building. In front of them are their daughters, Bess (with a large bow), Baila, and Eleanor. A son born later is not shown in the photograph. Jacob, a schohet (a kosher slaughterer in the Jewish tradition), Talmudic scholar, and later a mohel (one who performs the ritual circumcision), migrated to Denver, Colorado, in 1914 from Russia to join his uncle, Velvel Heller. By 1917 Jacob Gordon saved enough to bring his wife and daughter Bess from...
Dates: circa 1920

Philip Brown, 1919-1963

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Identifier: B111.01.0001.0018
Abstract Phillip P. Brown (1912-1994) was a Jewish activist and writer in Denver. He was part of the Motor Transport Corps of the U.S. Army, and was promoted to Seargent First Class in 1919. He married Juliette Lang on December 18, 1921, and they had two children, Jerome and Cecile. He fought in World War II from 1941-1945. Brown wrote a number of pamphlets and essays about Judaism, including: "Judaism and Christianity: Fundamental Differences," and "Why Jews & Judaism Could not and Should not...
Dates: 1919-1963

Prize Winning Dressed Beef of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1948

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00003
Abstract

A prize-winning dressed piece of beef that was done by the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The meat won an award at the National Western Stock show held in Denver, Colorado. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Dates: 1948

Prize Winning Dressed Beef of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1948

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00004
Abstract

Butcher dressing a prize-winning piece of beef at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The meat won an award at the National Western Stock show held in Denver, Colorado. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Dates: 1948

Schachet Mercantile Company, circa 1978

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Identifier: B063.01.0009.00009
Abstract Exterior view of the Schachet Mercantile Company on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The building was originally built as a saloon in 1896, rented by Eli Schachet and his sons in 1918 and served as the headquarters for their meat and fish store until it closed in 1981. Schachet came to Denver for his health and served the Jewish West Colfax neighborhood for many years as a ''schochet'' (ritual slaughterer for kosher meat). With his sons, he expanded his business to include smoked fish...
Dates: circa 1978

Schachet Mercantile Company, 1982 June 27

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Identifier: B063.01.0017.00027
Abstract

Exterior view of the Schachet Mercantile Company on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The building was originally built as a saloon in 1896, rented by Eli Schachet and his sons in 1918 and served as the headquarters for their meat and fish store until it closed in 1981.

Dates: 1982 June 27

Shul Baer Milstein Sits with a Long Pipe, circa 1895

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00003
Abstract

Shul Baer Milstein, wearing a yarmulke and smoking a long pipe, sits at a table with an open Talmud in front of him. A tapestry hangs on the wall behind his chair. Milstein, who immigrated from Russia, was an early leader in Denver's west side Orthodox Jewish community and in Congregation Zera Abraham. He was also a patriarch of the Cotopaxi Colony, an agricultural community located in Cotopaxi, Colorado that failed in 1884. He was a peddler and later opened his own kosher butcher shop.

Dates: circa 1895

Shul Baer Milstein Sits with a Long Pipe, circa 1895

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00005
Abstract

Shul Baer Milstein, wearing a yarmulke and smoking a long pipe, sits at a table with an open Talmud in front of him. A tapestry hangs on the wall behind his chair. Milstein, who immigrated from Russia, was an early leader in Denver's west side Orthodox Jewish community and in Congregation Zera Abraham. He was also a patriarch of the Cotopaxi Colony, an agricultural community located in Cotopaxi, Colorado that failed in 1884. He was a peddler and later opened his own kosher butcher shop.

Dates: circa 1895

Shul Baer Milstein Sits with a Long Pipe, circa 1895

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Identifier: B063.08.0016.00016
Abstract

Shul Baer Milstein, wearing a yarmulke and smoking a long pipe, sits at a table with an open Talmud in front of him. A tapestry hangs on the wall behind his chair. Milstein, who immigrated from Russia, was an early leader in Denver's west side Orthodox Jewish community and in Congregation Zera Abraham. He was also a patriarch of the Cotopaxi Colony, an agricultural community located in Cotopaxi, Colorado that failed in 1884. He was a peddler and later opened his own kosher butcher shop.

Dates: circa 1895