Box JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3

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Family history compiled by Jerold Hirschman, 1981-includes information about the Solomon Hirschman Family, Jonas Sternberger Family, David Sternberger Family, Elias Mayer Family, Henry Hirschman Family and Jerold Hirschman Family; information compiled by Judy H. Rivkin and Henry Hirschman about the Hirschman family connection to the College of Charlestons, Jewish Studies Center.

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Articles (1918, 1935) re. deaths of David Sternberger and Dr. Rosa Hirschman Gantt (first female to graduate from Medical College of South Carolina); article re. history of house at 11 Montagu St., (Hirschman family home) Charleston, SC; editorials (1986) re. J. Hirschmans efforts to save marshland on the Ashley River, Charleston, SC; biographical sketch of Rosa Hirschman Gantt, published in Nov. 1987 issue of Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association.

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Portrait (1912) of male members of the Henry Hirschman family: Lionel, Henry, Joseph M., Solomon, Edgar, Victor and Jerold; image (ca. 1930s?) of Rosa Sternberger Hirschman; Jerry, Lilah, Henry and Judy Hirschman, ca. 1942-1943; Lilah and Jerry Hirschman, ca. 1975.

Scope and Contents Two photocopy images of the Rivkin family; first taken in 1910, New York City, includes Ida, Louie and Irving Rivkin, Sam, Bessie, Celia and Joe Rivkin, Miriam, Bella and Avram Mordecai Rivkin and Ida, Morris, Mitchell and Annie Rivkin; second image (color photocopy) of Rachel and Jake Rivkins wedding, 1920 includes, Lewis, Jacob and Avram Mordecai Rivkin, Rachel Winter Rivkin, Tamara Devorah Rivkin, Sarah Rivkin, Celia and Bessie Rivkin, Caba Earl Rivkin and Raphael "Jake" Rivkin; both...

Collection Overview From the Collection: This sheet of commemorative stamps honors the Monitor and the Virginia, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and sixteen individuals who were important in the Civil War: Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, David Farragut, Frederick Douglass, Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Stand Watie, Joseph E. Johnston, Winfield Hancock, Mary Chesnut, William T. Sherman, Phoebe Pember, and "Stonewall" Jackson. Details for each stamp appear on the back of the...

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The prayer book contains two back pages of Israel family births and deaths, from 1862 to 1870.

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Two engraved wedding invitations: from marriage of Dina Kohn (daughter of Theodore Kohn) and Gus Hirsch, Orangeburg, SC, August 6, 1902; from marriage of Rosalie Levy (niece of Morris Israel) and William Rosenbaum, Charleston, SC, Nov. 27, 1901. Both invitations include reception cards. Note: invitations purchased from Ole Towne Antique Mall, Columbia, SC.

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State of South Carolina Individual Income Tax Returns (1927-1929) prepared for Sol Kohn. Each packet of documents contains the actual tax return form and typed Statements of Profit and Loss; Statements of Dividends Received; Statements of Donations; and Statements of Gain or Loss on Securities Sold. Financial information pertains to Kohn's personal assets as well as income generated from his two stores. Note: Tax returns purchased from Ole Towne Antique Mall, Columbia, SC.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Memo (August 1945) from Philip S. Ballard, Major, Air Corps Assistant Adjutant, Headquarters of the 499th Bombardment Group/Unit Personal Section (San Francisco, SC) re. announcement that Irving Sonenshine had been awarded the Oak-Leaf Cluster to Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross; includes "General Orders No. 27" which describes the Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross and lists the 1945 recipients. Map (January 1945) of the Nagoya-Osaka (Japan); printed at top of map"A-2...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Note: entire collection is color copies of photographs. Includes images of Annie Friedman Lourie with her mother, Betty Friedman, and sisters Becky Friedman and Minnie Kalinsky, ca. early 1940s; group photos (ca. 1945) include Sara Lourie Gordon, Sarah Kalinsky Nossakoff, Morris Kalinsky, Ethel Kalinsky Kramer, Minnie Kalinsky, Arnold Levinson, Libby Levinson, Margie Levinson Goldstein, Mary Lourie Rittenberg, and Dr. Herbert Lourie. Also includes image of Gov. Strom Thurmond in 1950 cutting...