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Scope and Contents The majority of photographs feature Louis Baker in a professional setting. Images include Charleston County Livestock Growers Association events, Louis Baker with a group of children dressed as cowboys on the Fran Bob show, at a Livestock Association event in Illinois, with other businessmen in the Charleston Livestock Association, and seated in an office. Also includes an image of the Bakers' butcher shop at 556 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, and one family portrait of Morris...

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A record of Louis Baker's birth created in 1929 and signed by a Notary Public, a marriage certificate for Louis Baker and Pearl Cohen, and yahrzeit calendars for Morris Baker and Louis Baker.

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Includes a letter appointing Louis Baker as a Notary Public of the State of South Carolina, a letter from the Charleston County Livestock Growers Association to the family of Louis after his death, and a letter from L. Mendel Rivers to the wife of Max Cohen, Pearl Cohen Baker's father, after his death.

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American Business Women's Association National Citation awarded to Pearl C. Baker, a Merit Award to Mr. and Mrs. Baker from the Charleston Jewish Community Center, membership certificate for M. Baker and Sons in the National Independent Meat Packers Association, and a certificate of recognition from the Jewish Welfare Fund to Pearl C. Baker.

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Receipts and statements from Louis Baker's term as the treasurer of Beth Israel synagogue.

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Synagogue Emanu-El and Beth Israel event programs.

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Recordings of the Haftorah portions for Barry Baker's bar mitzvah in August 1957, and his brother, Stanley's, in November 1959, made by Cantor Jacob J. Renzer, Synagogue Emanu-El.

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Articles on the marriage of Louis Baker to Pearl Cohen, advertisements for M. Baker and Sons, reports of a major fire at the M. Baker and Sons plant, and the obituary of Louis Baker.

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Includes a 2007 Camp Baker program, with a tribute to Louis and Pearl Baker on the back cover. Louis and Pearl Baker volunteered use of a portion of their property on Folly Beach to accommodate the Charleston JCC's day camp, which was then named Camp Baker.