Jewish women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Family of Jessie and Nellie Shwayder, circa 1922
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0041.00083
Abstract
Jesse and Nellie Shwayder sit for a family portrait surrounded by their five children. All members of the family are looking at Norma, the baby, who sits center on Jesse's lap and is the only individual looking at the camera. The other children are, left to right, Dorothy, Fay, King, and Ruth.
Dates:
circa 1922
Five Stories by Nellie Shwayder
Item
Identifier: B245.02.0005.0001
Abstract
Digital copy of "Five Stories" by Nellie Swayder. The stories are fictional but set in Denver, Colorado.
Dates:
1967-2002
Group of Women at a Park, between 1915-1940
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0013.00001
Abstract
Seven women pose together in a group in a park. Left to right are Fanny Milstein, Bessie Balaban (Kindergarten teacher at Cheltenham School), Ida Shwayder, Grandmother Weitz, Doris Ginsberg, Nellie Shwayder, and Minnie Shwartz.
Dates:
between 1915-1940
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