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Denver (Colo.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Clara Goldsmith, circa 1880

 Item
Identifier: B063.08.0039.00004
Abstract Clara Goldsmith Weil stands behind a fence prop for a formal portrait. Clara, born in 1860, was the first female Jewish baby born in Denver. Clara's parents, Clara and Henry Goldsmith, had migrated by covered wagon from Leavenworth, Kansas. The elder Clara died in childbirth and her daughter was named after her mother. Clara Goldsmith Weil was raised by her aunt and uncle Rosa and Abraham Goldsmith. The elder Clara Goldsmith's death was the impetus behind the organization of Denver's...
Dates: circa 1880

Clara Goldsmith Bowman Weil, circa 1920

 Item
Identifier: B063.08.0064.00046
Abstract

Studio portrait of Clara Goldsmith Bowman Weil as an older woman with her hair pinned up and wearing a lacy dress.

Dates: circa 1920

Growing up in Early Colorado: The Lives of Jewish Children, 2012

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00011
Abstract

Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who grew up in Jewish communities in Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with people describing their childhoods.

Dates: 2012

Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico: The Goldsmith Family, 2004

 Item
Identifier: B374.01.0001.00001
Abstract

The booklet is the product of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society's Jewish Pioneer Oral History Video Archive Project, conducted in partnership with the Department of History and the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico. The booklet is composed of recollections of Dorothy Shipman, Clara Goldsmith Weil was born in Denver. Kansas Territory in 1860, married Nathan Weil in Pueblo, and then the family moved to New Mexico.

Dates: 2004

Pioneering Jewish Women Exhibit, 2009

 File
Identifier: B230.02.0007.0025
Abstract

File folder contains exhibit plan and item level records for the "Pioneering Jewish Women of Colorado".

Dates: 2009