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Jewish businesspeople -- Colorado

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: FOR USE AT RESOURCE LEVEL ONLY

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Robinson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B289
Abstract Louis Robinson came from Eastern Europe with his wife Etta and their children in the 1890s. He founded the Climax Dairy in the 1895 in Denver, Colorado. He also donated land and was on the Board of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. His sons Hyman and Morris took over the dairy and Hyman married Etta Miller. Etta Robinson died in 1900 when their son Samuel was born. After the depression World War II, Sam Robinson started the Robinson Dairy. Sam Robison and his wife Helen Stone had two...
Dates: 1910-2012
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Robinson Family Papers

Rockmount Ranch Wear/Jack Weil, 1985-2015

 File
Identifier: B112.03.0001.0008
Abstract

File contains newspaper articles, advertisement cards, and biographical information about the Rockmount Ranch Wear Company that was founded by Jack Weil in the 1940s. Created the diamond snap design for cowboy shirts. Newspaper clipping about the Rockmount Ranch history and the new "Cannabis Cowboy Shirt" style.

Dates: 1985-2015
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B112, Beck Archives Businesses Collection / Mercantile / Box 1

Roth and Ambrose Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B348
Abstract Henry Roth moved to Pueblo, Colorado around 1896 with his wife Rose Schon Roth. Henry Roth joined the Pueblo Police Department and carried badge No. 29. Hannah Roth, the daughter of Henry and Rose Roth, was born on Hester Street in New York and was young when the family moved to Pueblo. Hannah Roth married itinerant Hungarian cowboy Adolph Hausman and the couple moved to a lumber camp in British Columbia, where their first child Harriett was born in 1913. After a year in Canada, the family...
Dates: between 1890-1976
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Roth and Ambrose Family Papers

Schneider Brewing Co., 1895-1897

 File
Identifier: B112.01.0001.0001
Abstract

File contains a copy of a brief biography and bank credit information for Phil and Henry Schneider, founders of the Phil Schneider Brewing Co. in Trinidad, Colorado.

Dates: 1895-1897
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B112, Beck Archives Businesses Collection / Breweries / Box 1

Shoenberg Farms Material Culture and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: B243
Abstract In 1911, Oscar and Anne Morrison sold a parcel of land in Jefferson County to New Yorker Louis D. Shoenberg. He had red brick buildings built, with plans to donate to the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives (NJH) as a memorial to his son who had died of tuberculosis. In 1912, the Dudley C. Shoenberg Memorial Farm was donated to Denver’s National Jewish Hospital. NJH opened in 1900 to treat tuberculosis patients. Louis Shoenberg began in the clothing business in boom town Leadville,...
Dates: 1900-2004
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Shoenberg Farms Material Culture and Photographs

Siegel Energy Company and Siegel Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B370
Abstract

The collection contains photographs, records, and news clippings of the Siegel Energy Company and the Siegel family. Ben Siegel founded the Siegel Oil Company in 1927 when he opened a small filling station at Bayaud and Santa Fe in Denver, Colorado. Ben Siegel was later joined by his sons Arnold and Larry Siegel. Siegel Energy Company is now managed by a third-generation of the Siegel family.. The collection gives the history of a Jewish owned family business.

Dates: 1934-2012
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Siegel Energy Company and Siegel Family Papers

Taking to the Road: Colorado Jews in the Automotive Business, 2017

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00017
Abstract

2017 RMJHS dinner video.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B230, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Records / Publications / Box 23 (DVDs)

The May Company/David May, 1952-1979

 File
Identifier: B112.03.0001.0010
Abstract

File contains a history/biography by M.A. student Byron Bronstein on ''The Gladiator of Low Prices: the Saga of David May in Early Colorado'' from Spring 1979. File also contains a "Special Edition of the Mayfare" entitled "The May Co. Celebrates Sevelty-Five Years of Progress. 1877 - 1952".

The May Company was founded by David May in 1877.

Dates: 1952-1979
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B112, Beck Archives Businesses Collection / Mercantile / Box 1

Winograd Judd Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B266
Abstract Abraham Winograd immigrated to the United State in 1909. He had been born in Biala, Poland in 1889 and died in Denver in 1971. His future wife, Matilda Pinsky had come earlier with her parents and brother from Lithuania. The couple had two children, Eleanor, born in Denver in 1916 and died in Greeley in 2007, and Harold Winograd, born in Denver in 1921 and died in Greeley in 1971. Eleanor Winograd married Morris Judd, who was born in Denver in 1916 and died in Boulder in 2008. Morris was a...
Dates: 1890-2013
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Winograd Judd Family Papers

Winter Weiss Co., 1927-1985

 File
Identifier: B112.06.0001.0027
Abstract

File contains information on the Winter Weiss Company from 1927-1985, including copies of several photographs, typed correspondence, two publications of "Portadrill" published by the Winter Weiss Co., and a 1985 issue of Colorado Heritage magazine, which includes information about the company.

Dates: 1927-1985
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B112, Beck Archives Businesses Collection / Service / Box 1

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