Jewish women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A Legacy of Healing: Early Colorado Jews in Medicine, 2005
Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00004
Abstract
Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who contributed to medicine, the Jewish community, and Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with people who knew some of the early key figures.
Dates:
2005
Abraham and Miriam Kobey with Son Benjamin, circa 1890
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0021.00070
Abstract
Abraham Kobey sits in a chair in front of his home. Miriam Kobey and Benjamin Kobey (their son) stand beside him holding hands.
Dates:
circa 1890
Miriam Kobey, between 1910-1921
Item
Identifier: B063.08.0016.00034
Abstract
Formal studio portrait of Miriam Kobey. She is wearing a white, collared shirt and a flowered hat.
Dates:
between 1910-1921
Miriam Rachofsky Kobey and Grandchildren, circa 1905
Item
Identifier: B100.03.0001.0003.00002
Abstract
Miriam Rachofsky Kobey and her grandchildren (from left to right, Rebecca, Miriam holding Silas, Philip, and Leon) pose in front of an ivy-covered trellis in Aspen, Colorado. Immigrants Abraham and Miriam (Mary) Kobey began their life in Colorado in Central City. The devout couple became vegetarians for a time while living there because kosher meat transported from Denver often arrived spoiled. After they moved to Denver, Abraham worked as a rabbi and sofer, or scribe, and Miriam became a...
Dates:
circa 1905
Shwayder Family Papers and Samsonite Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: B245
Abstract
The Shwayder family of Denver, Colorado, is best known for the luggage company Samsonite Corporation, which the family founded and operated. Isaac and Rachel Shwayder had migrated from Manchester, England to Colorado in 1881 and eventually settled in Denver. In 1910 their son, Jesse Shwayder, opened a small luggage factory in Denver with his father along with his brothers Mark, Maurice, Benjamin, and Solomon Shwayder. The company started as Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, was later...
Dates:
1896-2002