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Jewish businesspeople

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 407 Collections and/or Records:

Harris Family Papers and Tin Cup Records

 Collection
Identifier: B411
Abstract Solomon Hirsch and Hannah Levi Hirsch had six sons who immigrated to the United States and changed their last name to Harris. They were born in Fordom, Posen (Poland) and settled in New Jersey. Solomon Harris and his brother Eli went out west and settled in Virginia City, Colorado. The two brothers opened the Harris Bros. Beehive dry goods store by 1880 when Solomon became the town's treasurer. Because of confusion with Virginia City in Nevada and Montana, the town was reincorporated as Tin...
Dates: Other: circa 1875-1884

Harry and Morris Hoffman Standing Inside Hoffman Liquor Store, circa 1955

 Item
Identifier: B063.01.0001.00042
Abstract

Harry Hoffman and his father, Morris, pictured in the 1950s, stand next to a display at Denver's landmark Hoffman Liquor Store. The liquor establishment was founded in 1937.

Dates: circa 1955

Harry Harris Coal and Wood Co.

 File
Identifier: B112.06.0001.0026
Abstract

File contains one envelope with "Harry Harris Coal & Wood Co. 2121 16th St., Denver, COLO." printed on it in green, as well as "Wadge or Pinnacle Coal" with a logo picture.

Dates: 1918-2015

Harry Kadish , October 20, 1926 - June 24, 2013

 File
Identifier: B111.06.0006.0002
Abstract

Harry Kadish (1818-1926) was a Russian immigrant who moved to Denver in 1880. He died at the age of 108. Was Russian Cavalry Commander in the Crimean War with Turkey in the 1850s.

Dates: October 20, 1926 - June 24, 2013

Hobby Stationery Co. Expands, Rockmont Acquires Half Interest, 1966

 Item
Identifier: B112.03.0001.0016.00001
Abstract

Newspaper article with the headline ''Hobby Stationery Co. Expands, Rockmont Acquires Half Interest.'' Article appears to be a part of some sort of collage.

Dates: 1966

Hyman Zadek Salomon , 1969

 File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0002
Abstract

Hyman Z. Salomon was born in 1832 in Posen, Prussia. He moved to what was then the city of Auraria, now Denver, in 1859 and is claimed to be the first Jewish settler in Colorado. He married Cecilia Joel and the couple had two daughters. Hyman originally set up as a mercantile man but he was also involved with the Capitol Hydraulic Company, the Platte River Ditch Company, and several other businesses in Denver along with his brother, Fred Z. Salomon. Hyman passed away on November 21, 1897.

Dates: 1969

Ida Bloom at Downings Coal and Feed, 1915

 Item
Identifier: B409.02.00001
Abstract

Digitized copy of photograph of Ida Bloom with bales of hay at Downing Coal and Feed Store on 2800 Downing street. In the storage room there is a ladder, a barrel, a large scale, cubby hole shelving, and filled burlap bags. Sam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado in 1911. His parents were Pizer and Ida Strait Bloom. Pizer was born in Poland in 1885 and Ida was born in New York City in 1894. The couple opened Downing Coal and Feed store in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1915

Individuals, 1962-1994

 File
Identifier: B113.01.0001.0004
Abstract

File contains newspaper clippings from 1962-1994 that are about individual people in the Jewish Denver community. The majority of the articles are from the early 1980s.

Dates: 1962-1994

Interior of Colorado Electric Wiring Company, circa 1900

 Item
Identifier: B063.01.0009.00004
Abstract

The c. 1900 photograph reveals the interior of the Colorado Electric Wiring Company with proprietor Benjamin Borwick standing with his sister Bessie.

Dates: circa 1900

Interior of Londoner's Store, Denver, Colo., circa 1890

 Item
Identifier: B063.01.0009.00051
Abstract

Canned goods and staples inside the Londoner Store located at 15th Avenue and Arapahoe Street in Denver, Colorado. The Londoner grocery store was owned by Wolfe Londoner, mayor of Denver from 1889 to 1891.

Dates: circa 1890