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Saul Alexander papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1030
Collection Overview Collection includes bound account and inventory ledgers, cancelled checks, check registers, correspondence, photograph, ephemera, and electrocardiograph chart. Collection contains business records (1914-1925) from The Saul Alexander Dry Goods Store in Summerville, South Carolina. Eleven bound volumes include an account ledger (1914-1919) organized by name of vendor; six inventory ledgers (1915-1925), each lists type of merchandise, quantity in stock, and price; expense ledger (1922-1924)...
Dates: 1914-1937
Found in: Special Collections

Baltimore Bargain House (Baltimore, MD) records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-110
Abstract

Baltimore Bargain House, Baltimore, Maryland, mail order catalog, flier, and order form.

Dates: 1916, undated
Found in: Special Collections

Bills of sale from Sumter (S.C.) stores

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-083
Abstract

Two bills of sale made out to David Ashby Stuckey and his wife. One (1873) is from Marx E. Cohen, a dealer in dry goods, groceries, shoes, and hardware. The second (1896) is from Schwartz Bros., a dry goods store and millinery. Both stores were located in Sumter, South Carolina.

Dates: 1873, 1896
Found in: Special Collections

Breibart family photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-108
Abstract Photographs and photograph facsimiles of members of the Breibart family of Charleston, South Carolina. Samuel Breibart established a grocery store on Meeting Street called Breibart's Grocery. Photographs primarily include four of his five children: Solomon Breibart, a high school teacher and local historian, Mildred Breibart Sonenshine, Sidney Breibart, a pediatrician, and Jack Breibart, a journalist and newspaper editor. Also included are a small number of photographs of the Goldberg family...
Dates: 1916-1938, 1999
Found in: Special Collections

Collis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1148
Abstract The family papers of the Collis family of Charleston and Kingstree, South Carolina, reflect the experience of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to South Carolina. Materials include migration, marriage, education, and military documents; photographs; clippings; ephemera; and correspondence. Meyer Collis immigrated from Bialystok, Poland, to the United States sometime in the early 20th century; his future wife Lena Schiawitz followed in 1905. They settled in Charleston, where...
Dates: approximately 1900-2008; Majority of material found within 1906-1967
Found in: Special Collections

Dinner jacket

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-044
Collection Overview

Black wool dinner jacket, lined in black with sleeves lined in mauve, carries a label sewn inside collar: "Bentschner and Visanska Fashionable Outfitters, Charleston, S.C." A label on an interior pocket states: "Tailored in all-wool/fabric by A.B. Kirschbaum Co., Philadelphia, New York" and provides a line for the owner's name and date.

Dates: between 1915-1940
Found in: Special Collections

Furchgott and Brothers department store newspaper advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-090
Abstract

Collection consists of a full page advertisement for Furchgott and Brothers and a postcard of a 1900 photograph of King Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Special Collections

Alwyn Goldstein papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1096
Abstract

Biographical materials, correspondence, research files, printed materials, photographs, family scrapbooks, and family photograph albums of Alwyn Goldstein of Georgetown, South Carolina. Also included are materials relating to Alwyn’s Department Store and various administrative records of Temple Beth Elohim.

Dates: 1886-2014
Found in: Special Collections

Hirschman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-045
Collection Overview

Includes Hirschman family biographical notes, news clippings (1918-1987) and images (1912-1975). Original souvenir handkerchief from the 1929 South Carolina Federation of Temple Sisterhoods annual meeting held in Greenville, SC. Also includes several images of the Rivkin family, ca. 1910 and 1920.

Dates: 1910-1987
Found in: Special Collections

Hornik's Bargain House catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-097
Abstract

The collection includes a spring 1910 catalog from Hornik's Bargain House of Charleston, South Carolina, a dry goods wholesale store. The catalog contains descriptions, images, and prices of goods as well as general advice on how to run a successful business. Also included is a color reproduction of a postcard featuring the Charleston city market on Meeting Street. The M. Hornik & Co. storefront, located on the corner of Meeting and Market Streets, can be seen in the background.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Special Collections

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