Wool
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Indians at work, health; Navaho sheep and wool, self-government, 1943-1953
Pamphlets, reports, newsletters, memos
J. L. Brown Hide Co., 1929
File contains two checks from the J.L. Brown Hide Company at 1821 15th Street, Denver, CO from January of 1929. Benjamin Sosny owned the company and his youngest daughter, Sylvia Sosny's photo appears on the checks. File also contains one printed page from 2007 about the acquisition of these checks from Eileen and David Naiman, who donated them to Beck Archives.
Morris Strouse , 1886-1977
Morris Strause was born in Braunsbach, Germany on August 28, 1835. He moved to New York where he married Theresa Holzman and traveled across the US in various merchant positions. He moved to Colorado in search of gold and settled in Grand Junction with his family in 1882 where he began a clothing business, trading furs and skins and incorporating wool when the railroad was built. He passed away in November, 1928 as the Grand Junction's oldest and longest running merchant.
University of Denver - Students, circa 1890
The image depicts 39 unidentified students of the University of Denver, wearing winter coats, hats, and standing in front of an unidentified building, circa 1890.