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Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

General, 1940-2007, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes certificates, photographs, a digital recording on DVD of Ruth Jacobs's graveside service, and eulogies for Jacobs's funeral.

Dates: 1940-2007, undated

Childhood and education, 1924-1943, 1994, 2001, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2-3
Scope and Contents

Includes report cards, play programs, and materials relating to North High School. Memoirs written by Jacobs about growing up during the Great Depression and about daily life in North, South Carolina, are also included. Jacobs's high school diploma is stored in oversize box 1.

Dates: 1924-1943, 1994, 2001, undated

South Carolina State Board of Health, 1945-1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and a summary of job duties relating to Ruth Bass Jacobs's secretarial work at the South Carolina State Board of Health.

Dates: 1945-1951

Marriage to Isaac Jacobs, 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5-6
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and a guestbook.

Dates: 1951

Correspondence, 1947-2004

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Collection Overview From the Collection: Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families, including Noach Bass, Nathan Bass, members of the Pearlstine family, and Ruth Jacobs's siblings, husband, and children. Materials also relate to Jacobs's involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Also included...
Dates: 1947-2004

Event invitations, 1941-2005

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Collection Overview From the Collection: Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families, including Noach Bass, Nathan Bass, members of the Pearlstine family, and Ruth Jacobs's siblings, husband, and children. Materials also relate to Jacobs's involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Also included...
Dates: 1941-2005

80th birthday party, 2003

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Consists of photographs and cards.

Dates: 2003

Photographs, 1920s-1950s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Collection Overview From the Collection: Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families, including Noach Bass, Nathan Bass, members of the Pearlstine family, and Ruth Jacobs's siblings, husband, and children. Materials also relate to Jacobs's involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Also included...
Dates: 1920s-1950s

General, 1941-1999

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Includes mostly newspaper clippings of articles written by Isaac Jacobs.

Dates: 1941-1999

Correspondence, 1943, 1991-1997

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Largely consists of letters from Glen Milnor, a childhood friend, describing memories of growing up in Charleston. Also includes a letter from Jacobs to the Pearlstine family sent while Jacobs was serving in the Pacific during World War II.

Dates: 1943, 1991-1997