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JHC. Jewish Heritage Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: JHC

Found in 313 Collections and/or Records:

Laufer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-076
Abstract

Papers of the Laufer family, Polish immigrants who ran a kosher restaurant on King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Materials include an original Laufer's Kosher Restaurant business card, naturalization certificates, a ketubah, and two family photographs. Most materials are photocopies. Also included are 12 cupping glasses or "bankas" used for medicinal purposes.

Dates: 1910-circa 1945

Anna Olswanger papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-077
Abstract

Publications, short stories, and other papers of Anna Olswanger, children's story author and freelance editor. Included are published copies of Olswanger's short stories "Big Mistreatin' Bittersweet'n Blues" and "Chicken Bone Man," as well as materials relating to Olswanger's father, Berl Olswanger, a blues musician and composer from Nashville (Tennessee), and his sister Gene Olswanger.

Dates: 1985-2004

Price family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-079
Abstract

Photographs, eulogies, and newspaper clippings of the Price family of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Materials mostly relate to the family's clothing store, Prices' Store for Men. Also included is a brief history of the founders of Temple B'nai Israel in Spartanburg.

Dates: 1903-2003

Tybee Bogeslov Levy papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-080
Abstract

Photographs and papers of Tybee Bogeslov Levy, a Russian immigrant who settled in Walterboro, South Carolina. Photographs include black and white portraits of Levy and her family. Also included is an obituary of Bernhard Levy, Tybee's husband, who owned a store in Walterboro and was Postmaster General of Colleton County.

Dates: circa 1908-circa 1946

Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum photograph

 Item
Identifier: Mss 1034-081
Abstract

Group portrait photograph taken at the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, circa 1910. The image shows Superintendent Samuel Wolfenstein with children residing at the orphanage. Nathan Kohler, father of Marjorie Kohler Abrams of Greenville, South Carolina, is pictured in the photograph.

Dates: circa 1910

"Camp Lawless" photograph album

 Item
Identifier: Mss 1034-082
Abstract

A photograph album containing snapshots from a vacation in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. "Camp Lawless" is written on the album, which was likely created by Paul Hamilton Rogers or Ruth Richardson Rogers. The album includes pictures of the friends, including Clifton Moïse and Marguerite Cromer, at the cabin as well as at the Biltmore Estate.

Dates: circa 1912

David Ashby Stuckey bills of sale, receipts, and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-085
Abstract

Bills of sale, receipts, and correspondence of David Ashby Stuckey, a cotton farmer from Lee County, South Carolina.

Dates: 1873-1899, undated

Krasnoff family photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-086
Abstract

Photographs and audiovisual material of the Krasnoff family of Bishopville, South Carolina. Materials relate mostly to Sollie and Leo Krasnoff, sons of Meyer Krasnoff, the proprietor of a general store on Main Street in Bishopville.

Dates: circa 1900-1950

Glenn Springs, South Carolina, photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-087
Abstract

Black and white photographs of visitors to the Glenn Springs hotel and resort in Glenn Springs, South Carolina. Individuals pictured include Gittel and Jake Lerner, Rivka Goldberg, Ida and Morris Sokol, Irvin "Dunny" and Joseph Zalkin.

Dates: 1924-1927

Lois and Raphael Wolpert photographs of Beth Israel Congregation

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-089
Abstract

This collection consists of ten photographs taken by Lois and Raphael Wolpert documenting various events and people associated with Beth Israel Congregation in Florence, South Carolina.

Dates: 1956-1974