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Jewish families

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 553 Collections and/or Records:

Box 1, 1891-1994

 File — Box B444.0001: Series B444.01 [Barcode: U186023300518]
Identifier: B444.01.0001

Box 1, 2018

 File — Box B421.0001: 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

Box 1, 2003-2011

 File — Box B344.0001: Series B344.01; Series B344.02; Series B344.03; Series B344.04; Series B344.05 [Barcode: U186022263713]
Identifier: B344.04.0001
Abstract One folder containing various notices and speeches concerning Jack Greenwald and his second Bar Mitzvah when he was eighty-three. There are three speeches Jack Greenwald honoring his father Rabbi Harav Yekusiel Yehuda Greenwald. Jack Greenwald's first speech was in 2003 when he was about to be seventy-three. Attached to the speech is All The Laws of Mourning written by Rabbi Greenwald in 1947. The second speech was the observation of the 50th Yahrzheit (memorial) of Rabbi Greenwald, and the...
Dates: 2003-2011

Box 1, between 1869-1996

 File — Box B319.0001: Series B319.01 [Barcode: U186020736516]
Identifier: B319.01.0001
Scope and Contents

The book Vale of Cedars; The Martyr by Grace Aguilar (1868) was awarded Celestine Lesem by the Hebrew Bible School in Quincy, Ill. Folder with papers and documents.

Dates: between 1869-1996

Box 1, 1910-2012

 File — Box B289.0001: Series B289.01; Series B289.02 [Barcode: U186020742460]
Identifier: B289.01.0001
Abstract Louis Robinson came from Eastern Europe with his wife Etta and their children in the 1890s. He founded the Climax Dairy in 1895 in Denver, Colorado. He also donated land and was on the Board of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. His sons Hyman and Morris took over the dairy and Hyman married Etta Miller. Etta Robinson died in 1900 when their son Samuel was born. After the depression World War II, Sam Robinson started the Robinson Dairy. Sam Robinson and his wife Helen Stone had two...
Dates: 1910-2012

Box 1, 1925-1945

 File — Box B447.0001: Series B447.01; Series B447.02 [Barcode: U186023303451]
Identifier: B447.02.0001
Abstract

The box contains a Menorah and the Spanish novel "La Hermana San Sulpicio" that belonged to Jane's grandmother Ruth Strauss Oppenheim.

Dates: 1925-1945

Box 1, 1926-1996

 File — Box B192.0001: Series B192.01 [Barcode: U186020738673]
Identifier: B192.01.0001
Abstract

Newsclippings, scrapbook pages, and laminated newspaper articles from Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and newsclippings.

Dates: 1926-1996

Box 1, 1881 - 1967

 File — Box B108.0001: Series B108.01 [Barcode: U186020738429]
Identifier: B108.01.0001
Abstract

Contains a folder with Appel family histories and a folder on the Appel Clothing Company with advertisements and financial reports.

Dates: 1881 - 1967

Box 1, 2022

 File — Box B440.0001: Series B440.01 [Barcode: U186023258486]
Identifier: B440.01.0001
Abstract

Box contains a book written by Marlene Zinn Dalton Connors: "Welcome Moishe: A Story of the Moishe and Ruchel Zinn Family in America."

Dates: 2022

Box 1, circa 1900-1905

 File — Box B106.0001: Series B106.01 [Barcode: U186020736223]
Identifier: B106.01.0001
Abstract

Contains Flora Anfenger Hornbein (maiden name Flora Anfenger)'s wedding dress and corset.

Dates: circa 1900-1905