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Jewish pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Isaac Goldstein, circa 1879

 File
Identifier: B111.04.0004.0011
Abstract

Little is known about Isaac Goldstein (?-1879) beyond that he was killed in the White River War (Ute War) and his body was found by soldiers. It is said that Goldstein was searching for his lost love in the West, believing her to have been captured by a Native American tribe.

Dates: circa 1879

Isadore Elkan and Anna Freudenthal Solomon, 1997

 File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0012
Scope and Contents I. E. (Isadore Elkan) Solomon was born on May 23, 1841 in Kruschwitz, Prussia and moved to Pennsylvania in 1858. He became a US citizen in 1865 and married Anna Freudenthal in 1872 after meeting her in Poland. They moved to Arizona with their three children in 1876, opening a store shortly afterward in the town that came to be known as Solomonville. The town grew, and the Solomon Commercial Company incorporated more and more items and industries, selling automobiles and opening a flour mill,...
Dates: 1997

Jewish Benevolence, Panel 1, 2001

 Item — Object B297.02.01.00036: Series B297.02
Identifier: B297.02.01.00036
Abstract

One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Jewish Benevolence" features more historical information and includes National Jewish Hospital, Francis Wisebart Jacobs, and JCRS.

Dates: Other: 2001

Jewish Communities Outside of Denver, Panel 1 , 2011

 Item — Object B297.02.01.00038: Series B297.02 [Barcode: U186023282574]
Identifier: B297.02.01.00038
Abstract

One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Jewish Communities Outside of Denver" features more historical information and includes Cohen Family of Fairplay, Issacs of Leadville. Cripple Creek, Sam and Bertha Flax, Abraham Rachofsky of Central City, and Meyer Brothers of Northern Colorado.

Dates: 2011

Jewish Pioneers: Colorado Experience, 2014

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00019
Abstract

Film by Rocky Mountain PBS about Jews in early Colorado. The film sourced materials from the Beck Archives.

Dates: 2014

Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico Exhibition Catalog, 2003

 Item
Identifier: B374.01.0001.00016
Abstract

Exhibition Catalog from a 2003 exhibit at the Museum of New Mexico: "Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico, 1821-1917."

Dates: 2003

Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico: The Taichert Family, 2005

 Item
Identifier: B374.01.0001.00010
Abstract

The booklet is the product of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society's Jewish Pioneer Oral History Video Archive Project, conducted in partnership with the Department of History and the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico. The booklet is composed of recollections of members of the Taichert family.

Dates: 2005

Jewish West Exhibit, Autry Museum, 2000-2010

 File
Identifier: B230.02.0007.0006
Abstract

File Folder six contains brochures, correspondence, copies of loan agreements, content outlines, and floorplan drafts for the "Jewish Life in the American West" Exhibition.

Dates: 2000-2010

Lillian Salomon Books

 Collection
Identifier: B364
Abstract Lilian Salomon was born in Colorado in 1866, one of Denver's earliest Jewish pioneer families. She grew up in Denver and married James Geoffrey McMurry and had one child, James Taylor. Her father Hyman Zadek Salomon was a charter member of B’nai B’rith Denver lodge no. 171 and part owner of Salomon Bros. Grocers. Collection contains a two volume set of Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land by John Lloyd Stephens (1838) with an inscription in the second volume "Lillie...
Dates: 1838-1885