Denver (Colo.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Attendees at a Reunion of Emanuel Confirmands, 1992 August 23
Item
Identifier: B063.06.0006.00064
Abstract
Several Emanuel Confirmands from 1916-1942 pose together in Temple Emanuel during a reunion. Left to right first row: Joan (Heidenheimer) Travis, Celia (Atlavaick) Meyers, Betty (Fine) Striker, Marjorie (Bernick) Grimes, Dee (Rosenblum) Paul, Patty (Jacobs) Baum, Edna Conner, Bobbie (Milstein) Cook, Mildred (Menkovsky) Karden. Second row: Joan (Goodney) Axelrod, Phyllis (Atlavaick) Reckler, Jean (Hershorn) Segal, Billie (Reichart) Silversmith, Bobbi (Barnett) Tobias, Peggy (Frankel) Crane,...
Dates:
1992 August 23
Box 1, 2018
File — Box B421.01.0001: Series B421.01 [Barcode: U186023258305]
Identifier: B421.01.0001
Abstract
The Gordon Sign Company was founded by Harry A. Gordon in 1904. It is the oldest full-service sign company in the United States. Harry Abraham Gordon was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1878 and settled in Denver, Colorado shortly before he founded the Company. His two sons, Edward and Leonard Gordon took over the company in the 1940s and later started one of the largest neon sign companies in Colorado. The collection contains a book of photographs of Gordon neon signs, "Gordon Neon: A Family...
Dates:
2018
Gordon Sign Company
Collection — Box B421.01.0001: Series B421.01 [Barcode: U186023258305]
Identifier: B421
Abstract
The Gordon Sign Company was founded by Harry A. Gordon in 1904. It is the oldest full-service sign company in the United States. His two sons, Edward and Leonard Gordon took over the company in the 1940s and later started one of the largest neon sign companies in Colorado. The company was purchased by investors in 2012, but the Gordon Sign Company name was retained by the successor company. Gabriella Marks and Debra Nichols, granddaughters of Leonard Gordon, published a book in 2018 with...
Dates:
2018
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Gordon Sign Company