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Denver (Colo.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 55526 Collections and/or Records:

Sam Barets, circa 1910

 Item
Identifier: B063.08.0065.00056
Abstract

Studio portrait of Sam Barets a member of Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, Denver Lodge No. 171.

Dates: circa 1910
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 65

Sam Beck, between 1970-1982

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00010
Abstract

Portrait of Sam Beck, founder of Central Electric, sitting at his desk.

Dates: between 1970-1982
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 8

Sam Beck, between 1970-1982

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00011
Abstract

Portrait of Sam Beck, founder of Central Electric, sitting at his desk.

Dates: between 1970-1982
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 8

Sam Beck and the Peppers, 1942 May 10

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Identifier: B063.05.0041.00054
Abstract

Left to right Sam Beck, Rose Pepper, and Jacob Pepper, father and grandparents of Ira Beck, pose together in front of a house in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1942 May 10
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 41

Sam Beck in Formal Pose, 1954

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Identifier: B063.08.0030.0006.00001
Abstract

Sam Beck stands behind a chair in a formal pose. Sam Beck founded the Central Electric Supply Co. and was elected chairman. Located at 500 Quivas Street in Denver, Colorado, Central Electric was a leading wholesale distributor of electrical construction material and lighting equipment in the Rocky Mountain region. Ira M. Beck succeeded his father as the president of the company in 1969.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 30 / Sam Beck

Sam Bock, 1933-1984

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Identifier: B111.01.0001.0015
Abstract Sam Bock (1911-1984) was a noted engineer in Colorado and Maryland. Bock was born in Denver, graduated from the University of Denver in 1932 with an engineering degree, and moved to Maryland during the 1940s. In 1940, he married Charlotte Ginsburg. He worked for the Remington Arms Plant (now the Denver Federal Center) during WWII, and subsequently worked for the Colorado Highway Department, Sinai Hospital (administrative engineer), and the U.S. Department of Defense. Bock was also the...
Dates: 1933-1984
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 1, A-B / Box 1

Sam Cohen, 1894-1983

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Identifier: B111.02.0002.0013
Abstract Samuel Cohen (1845-?) was born in Wloclawek, Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to New York City in 1866. In 1873, Cohen went west to Denver on the advice of a friend. He found little opportunity in Denver, and went south to Pueblo, where he stayed for a short time. Upon finding little opportunity in Pueblo as well, Cohen traveled to Fairplay, Colorado (in Park County) entirely on foot, where he finally settled. Cohen became one of Fairplay's leading merchants, and invested heavily in mining...
Dates: 1894-1983
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 2, C / Box 2

Sam Davis' Application for Admittance to JCRS, 1911 August 18

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Identifier: B002.01.0104.0137.00001
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Sam Davis' handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (28), place of birth (Russia), and occupation (tailor). He was married and had 3 children, and his nearest relatives were his siter in N.Y., and wife in Denver. On the backside it reads he was admitted as an emergency case on August 18, 1911, and left on October 9, 1911.

Dates: 1911 August 18
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 104: (Patients #1751-1989) [Admit Dates: March 1911-November 1911] / JCRS Patient #1939 Sam Davis

Sam, Elaine, and Belle Beck, between 1935-1950

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Identifier: B063.05.0041.00059
Abstract

Sam and Belle Beck with their daughter Elaine Beck.

Dates: between 1935-1950
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 41

Sam Flax, circa 1979

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Identifier: B111.03.0003.0015
Abstract Sam [Afsey] Flax (1887-1979, SSI) was born in Kovna, Russia to a large family. He originally intended to study at a local yeshiva, but had to leave for America in 1905 due to Czarist persecution. Flax spent eleven months in New York before following his sweetheart Bertha and her family to Cripple Creek, Colorado. Sam and Bertha were married in Cripple Creek on August 1, 1909. They went back to New York for a brief period, but after finding little success, returned west to Denver, Colorado,...
Dates: circa 1979
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 3, D-F / Box 3

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