Cotopaxi (Colo.)
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt 50th Wedding Anniversary, circa 1948
Miriam Milstein, circa 1895
Miriam Milstein sits at a table with a tapestry behind her. Mrs. Milstein's husband was Shul Baer Milstein, an early leader in Denver, Colorado's west side Orthodox Jewish community, and Congregations Zera Abraham. Shul Baer Milstein was the patriarch of Cotopaxi Colony, an agricultural community located near Cotopaxi, Colorado that failed in 1884. The couple never lived in the Cotopaxi community.
Muhlstein and Ornstein Family Papers
Oral History Interview with Betty Lustig, 1995 November 14
Covers her family immigrating, their part in the Cotopaxi Colony, members of Hebrew Educational Alliance when it began, Jewish family life.
Oral History Interview with Louis Siegel, 1979 March 13
Talks about life on Denver's west side, fathers experience with the carrier’s union, pulling a wagon of fruit or ice, doing other manual labor jobs.
Oral History Interview with Rose Stuhlbarg, 1978 August 6
Rose Stuhlbarg details Jewish life on the West Side of Denver, Colo. She also talks about her parents who emigrated from Russia. Her father practiced folk-medicine and her mother was a midwife. She mentions the Yiddish theater in Denver. She discusses her life after her first husband died, and the Depression years in Denver. Her first husband was murdered while on the Denver Police Force in 1919.
Oral History Interview with Sam Beck, 1976 September 17
Ore House at Saltiel's Mine, between 1870-1900
Three unidentified miners pose at the Saltiel Mine's ore house in Cotopaxi, Colorado.
Saltiel's Store, between 1879-1882
Saltiel's store in Cotopaxi, Colorado.
Schwarz Report, 1882
Copies of Julius Schwarz report on the "Colony of Russian Refugees at Cotopaxi, Colorado, established by The Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society of the United States." Julius Schwarz reported to the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society on the status of the Russian settlers at the Cotopaxi Colony.