Colorado
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Beck Archives Microfilm and Microforms Collection
Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver’s Jewish Community, 2009
Brief description of several early Jewish leaders of commerce, philanthropy, religion, and community as well as several Jewish lawyers, doctors, merchants, and politicians in Colorado.
Carrie Herring for Colorado Reflections
Carrie Herring describes her experiences in Iowa and owning a grocery store before moving to Denver in the late 1920s. Herring reflects on her time working at Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company before attending a comptometer course and obtaining a job at Macklem Baking Company, working her way up to the board. Herring discusses the impact of World War II on businesses and her experience at Altrusa Club, a women's service club formed during World War I.
Collection on Guldman Family and Golden Eagle Dry Goods
From Peddlers to Merchant Princes: Early Colorado Jewish Entrepreneurs, 2006
Going Out of Business Sale at the Golden Eagle, 1941
The final day of the Denver Golden Eagle's Going Out of Business Sale. A large crowd of people stand in the street and the Denver Police Department is on hand to maintain the crowd. Leopold H. Guldman was the founder of the Golden Eagle store.
Leopold H. Guldman and Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company Records
Leopold H. Guldman was born in Harburg, Bavaria in 1853 and immigrated to the United States in 1870. Guldman opened the successful chain of Golden Eagle clothing stores in Leadville, Cripple Creek and Denver. He was one of Colorado's leading merchants and philanthropists. The collection consists largely of business records including correspondence, ledgers, journals, and financial papers related to the Golden Eagle stores.
Portrait of Mr. L. H. Guldman, between 1920-1930
Leopold Guldman, owner of the Golden Eagle Department Stores in Leadville and Denver, Colorado is pictured smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper.
Rose Lucas for Colorado Reflections
Rose Lucas reflects on her childhood and her first memories of Colorado. Discussing her mother, who was a governess for the children of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor and her father, who opened the first Jewish bakery in Denver in the early 1900s. Lucas remembers horse-drawn wagons, making deliveries for the bakery, and working for the Golden Eagle. Recalls the City Hall Fire in 1898, the flood of 1905, and the robbery of the Denver Mint in 1920.
The Four Meyer Brothers, circa 1908
Morris Meyer came to Colorado in the 1890s to cure his tuberculosis and founded the Golden Rule Dry Goods Store in Rocky Ford. At one time, there were seven flourishing Meyer Stores operating in Northern Colorado. Pictured here are the four Meyer brothers dressed in suits, ties, and bowler hats. From left to right: Charles (Greeley, Colorado), Morris (Rocky Ford, Colorado), Sam (Fort Collins, Colorado) and Max Meyer (Greeley, Colorado).