Genealogies and history of Jacobosky-Friedburg-Gaeser-Altman families in United States

Includes photographs, genealogies, correspondence, clippings, certificates, and typescripts. Papers cover four generations of Jacobosky, Friedberg, Gaeser, and Altman families and include genealogies, family memoirs (1861-1964) compiled by Etta Friedberg Gaeser (1936) and Francine Altman Lichtman (1964), correspondence (1930s-1980s), and certificates awarded to Walter Gaeser (Navy) and Ermine Gaeser Altman (including an original United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate, 1955). Photographs (1870s-1980s) document the families and contain an 1877 tintype, several cabinet cards (ca. 1900) and numerous candid family snapshots; bulk dates 1920s-1960s; mixture of prints and originals. Also represented are the Fass-Lesser families (relatives of the Jacoboskys and Friedburgs); papers include memoirs and photographs, 1930s.