Box 6

Scope and Contents Rachel Raisin kindergarten portfolio, photographs, Mordenai Raisin National Council of Jewish Juniors meeting program, 1941, Ashley Hall "Cerebrus" yearbooks belonging to Mordenai Lazarus Raisin, essay by Mordenai Lazarus Raisin, certificate for Mrs. Jacob L. Raisin from the Charleston Jewish Welfare Fund, and loan and appraisal forms and correspondence for items from the Mordenai Raisin Hirsch and Rachel M. Raisin collection displayed in "Portion of the People," the Charleston Museum, and...

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Correspondence to Mordenai Hirsch regarding whether an M. H. Lazarus ever lived in Cheraw, South Carolina. Also includes an interview with Virginia Hersch, who claims to be a descendent of Michael Lazarus and a notice of her death, mailed to Mrs. Jacob Raisin.

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Jewelry belonging to Jane Lazarus Raisin: pins from the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, along with a case from J. E. Caldwell & Co. jewelers in Philadelphia.

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Includes an ambrotype of Miriam Woolf Hirsch with her sons, Melvin J. and Isaac Willard; a card de visite of Isaac W. Hirsch in his Civil War uniform; and a copy of an image of Elizabeth Harris Hirsch. Also includes photographs of Miriam Hirsch, Thomas and Rosa Newman (parents of the Miriam Hirsch), Miriam's maternal grandparents, Jane Hirsch and Willard Hirsch.

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Includes Hirsch's certificate from the 25th Annual Reunion of United Confederate Veterans, and a recommendation for his medical discharge. With correspondence between Hirsch and his family, and his pledge to the Union not to take up arms. Also includes a 15¢ state of South Carolina paper note, "issued under Act Feb. 1862."

Scope and Contents Includes photocopies of the ketubah (marriage contact) for Isaac W. Hirsch and Elizabeth Harris, notice and congratulatory letter on Hirsch's election as commissioner of the Charleston Orphan House, obituaries and death notices, and a clipping about the home at 73 Rutledge, owned by Hirsch from 1893-1905. Also includes a letter from Hirsch to his children, letters from Alexander to Marion Hirsch, correspondence amongst members of the Hirsch family and historians regarding the genealogy of...

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Includes Hirsch's masonic certificate, several tributes to Hirsch, a speech given by Willard Hirsch after his grandfather's death, and related clippings. Also includes a certificate signifying Hirsch as a master mason, and clippings and correspondence from the masons regarding Hirsch's death.