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Colorado

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Beck Archives Microfilm and Microforms Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B117
Abstract The Rocky Mountain News microfilmed records and recived some microfilms from other organizations. Collection contains microfilmed copies of the following publications and organizations: the Intermountain Jewish News, records from the Jewish community in Colorado Springs, a William S. Friedman Scrapbook, the Rose Hill Cemetery Association, the Denver Jewish Outlook, the American Israelite, the American Jewish Archives Files,, the I.M. Beck Microfilming Project of Colorado Jewish History,...
Dates: Other: 1800-2014

Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver’s Jewish Community, 2009

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00008
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2009

Carrie Herring for Colorado Reflections

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Identifier: couda-herring
Abstract

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.

Dates: Date Not Yet Determined

Collection on Guldman Family and Golden Eagle Dry Goods

 Collection
Identifier: B294
Abstract Leopold H. Guldman was born in Harburg, Bavaria in 1853 and immigrated to the United States in 1870. He was one of Colorado's leading merchants and philanthropists. Guldman came to the Colorado mountains in search of silver, but found it more profitable to open the Golden Eagle clothing stores in Leadville and Cripple Creek. In 1879, Guldman moved to Denver and opened his third and most successful Golden Eagle enterprise, which for many years was Denver's leading popular-price department...
Dates: between 1894-2013

From Peddlers to Merchant Princes: Early Colorado Jewish Entrepreneurs, 2006

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00005
Abstract Jews played a central role in the development of Colorado through their contributions to economic life and development. Denver's first mercantile store was opened by Jewish citizen Fred Salomon in 1859. Before long, stores run by Jewish merchants and their family members in search of work and wealth flourished on the main streets of most Colorado towns including, Denver, Central City, Leadville, Trinidad, and Fairplay. This film focuses on the lives of a number of early merchants, including...
Dates: 2006

Going Out of Business Sale at the Golden Eagle, 1941

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Identifier: B063.01.0001.00011
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1941

Leopold H. Guldman and Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B092
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1800-1980; 1879-1941

Portrait of Mr. L. H. Guldman, between 1920-1930

 Item
Identifier: B063.08.0008.00015
Abstract

Leopold Guldman, owner of the Golden Eagle Department Stores in Leadville and Denver, Colorado is pictured smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper.

Dates: between 1920-1930

Rose Lucas for Colorado Reflections

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Identifier: couda-lucas
Abstract

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.

Dates: Date Not Yet Determined

The Four Meyer Brothers, circa 1908

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Identifier: B063.05.0013.00021
Abstract

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).

Dates: circa 1908