Photograph albums

Abstract

The material in the collection includes items, photographs, and papers related to Dorothy Bercu Gross and her husband Norman Gross, her extended family, and her Vaudeville career in the 1920s and 1930s. Her father owned the Chicago Hide, Fur and Wool Company in Douglas, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado. The collection spans from the late 1800s to 2015 and illustrates an extended Jewish family and vaudeville performers.

Abstract

Betty Jean Hunter (1927-2018) is an alumna of the University of Denver (BS, Home Economics, Class of 1951). She later worked as a nurse. The collection consists of her Alpha Gamma Delta paddle, her University of Denver diploma, a black and white photograph of her graduation day, and a copy of a photograph of her as a nurse.

Abstract

Bound collection of 39 photoprints on [collodion?] printing-out paper (mounted on cardboard). Includes interior and exterior views of the University of Denver and Haish Manual Training School buildings, scenic and industrial views around Colorado, with an unmounted glossy black and white portrait of the photographer inserted loose.

Abstract Henry Schoen immigrated from Hungary in 1890 and worked as a salesman. He married Mildred Block on June 14, 1914 in Denver with Rabbi William S. Freidman performing the ceremony. They had two children, Lewis and Vivian. Mildred was Colorado born to German immigrant parents. The Schoen family were members of Congregation Emanuel and they, along with Mildred's mother Babette Block, in Congregation Emanuel Cemetery.Collection contains postcards, a marriage certificate, report cards...