Alice Gertrude Moïse Sipley papers
Collection Overview
Photographs and papers of Alice Gertrude Moïse Sipley of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Sumter, South Carolina. Materials include black and white photographs of family members and downtown Charleston, South Carolina, the 1904 wedding album of Albert Luria Moïse and Eva May Nathans, and an 1867 award of merit pendant to L. Cohen. Also included are color photographs of the stained-glass windows of Temple Sinai in Sumter, South Carolina, and a 1996 newspaper clipping describing their history.
Dates
- Creation: 1867-1996
Creator
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
Alice Gertrude Moïse Sipley (1906-2003), was born is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Albert Luria Moïse (1872-1940), a native of Sumter, South Carolina, and Eva May Nathans Moïse (1878-1948), a native of Charleston, South Carolina. In 1946, Alice married Louis Walton Sipley (1897-1968), the founder and director of the American Museum of Photography in Philadelphia. From 1946 to 1959, in connection with Louis's work with the American Museum of Photography, Alice started the Model's Guild of Philadelphia. The Guild, initially starting with a group of sixteen models and eventually expanding to approximately two hundred, supplied photographers and fashion stores with models in the Philadelphia area.
Extent
4 folders
Abstract
Photographs and papers of Alice Gertrude Moïse Sipley of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Sumter, South Carolina. Materials relate to the parents and relatives of Sipley and also to the history of the stained glass windows of Temple Sinai in Sumter, South Carolina.
Collection Arrangement
- Family photographs, 1952, undated
- Wedding album and invitation, 1904, undated
- Award of Merit pendant, 1867
- Temple Sinai, Sumter, South Carolina, 1996, undated
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2009 by Anita Rosenberg.
Processing Information
Processed by Joshua Minor, August 2011.
Source
- Rosenberg, Anita Moïse Rosefield (Donor, Person)
Subject
- Sipley, Alice Gertrude Moïse, 1906-2003 (Person)
- Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Alice Gertrude Moïse Sipley Papers, 1867-1996
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Joshua Minor; machine-readable finding aid created by: Joshua Minor
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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