JHC. Jewish Heritage Collection

Collection Overview Collection consists of two copies of a printed family tree of the Oppenheim family, tracing Oppenheim relatives back to the late 14th century (some gaps in time periods) and concluding in the 1980s. The author of the list of photographs (which appears printed on the family tree) was not consistent in listing names, particularly in terms of including middle names and married names for women. Includes information on the Von Butzbach, Ballin, Bachrach, Menz, Meir, Levi, Weinsburg, Gompei,...

Collection Overview Collection consists of the negative (3"x 5") of a photograph of Lewis Drucker (ca. 1900) wearing uniform of the Austrian Army, photocopied images of Rose, Laurence and H. Eric Heiden from book, "Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star: Proceedings of the Forty Sixth Annual Session Grand Chapter of South Carolina Order of the Eastern Star, Myrtle Beach, SC, June 16-18, 1953," and a photocopied biographical sketch of Rose F. Drucker Heiden, Worthy Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter of South...

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Black and white photograph (5" x 7"), ca. 1950, of Frances Bass Ginsberg with her husband, Arthur Ginsberg, in Florida. Each is holding two strings of large mouth bass.

Collection Overview Depicts crowds of people at the goose-market in Cracow, Poland, ca. 1860s. Hasidic Jew with payos and streimel in foreground is bending over to pick up a goose (from a group of geese); man (possibly a vendor) with long white beard leans against a wagon and smokes a pipe. Two children (one barefoot) walk in the right foreground. Several women in background carry baskets; man dressed in suit and top hat also visible. Streets appear to be laden with straw; two-story building in background has...

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Two certificates (Dec. 1953) from Dan Lodge No. 593 of B'nai B'rith (Charleston, SC) and from District Grand Lodge No. 5 honoring Harold P. Givner for twenty-five years of service to the organization.

Collection Overview Collection includes Ida and Abraham Appel's South Carolina marriage license (1922); Ida Appel's original Certificate of U.S. Citizenship (1935) and U.S passport (1967); Abraham Appel's social security cards, South Carolina driver's license (1961), and laminated clipping of his obituary (1962). Also includes Harry I. Appel's birth certificate (1924) from Mercy Hospital, Charleston, SC, Notification of Birth Registration (1924) from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and a...

Collection Overview Collection of material related to Julius H. Bloom's World War I military service. Includes photograph (print) of Bloom in uniform, ca. 1918 and panoramic image (print) of Company A, 1st Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division (a.k.a. Butler Guards) at Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918; color photograph (original) of seventeen Butler Guard veterans (including Bloom) and clipping (Sept. 4, 1971) from Greenville Piedmont re. reunion of Butler Guards.; Also Bloom's certificate of...

Collection Overview Papers consist of Buxton's original annotated typescript (bound), "Franklin J. Moses, Jr., the Scalawag Governor of South Carolina," a thesis presented to the Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, April 26, 1950. Included are a letter and two postcards from southern historian, Frances B. Simkins, which contain critique of the thesis, along with comments and encouragement to publish....

Collection Overview Contains photocopy of Theresa Baruch Weil's United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate (ca. 1910); photocopy of Frank and Ed Levenson's South Carolina business registration (1918); Sam Levenson's certificate (ca. 1943-1944) of completion for Enlisted Specialist Course for Veterinary Technicians, U.S. Army. Photographs include two prints, (b/w, 8" x 10") of Sam Levenson and fifteen other uniformed service men in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1944.; Includes...

Collection Overview Collection includes Benjamin and Mary Solomon's official United States of America Certificates of Naturalization (1942, 1945) with photo identifications. On reverse of Benjamin Solomon's certificate is typed notation (signed by N.P. deSaussure, Deputy Clerk of U.S. District Court) that Solomon's name was changed from Berall Lozer Charchewsky, as part of the naturalization. Also included is an abstract of Benjamin and Mary Solomon's marriage license from the Register of Marriages...