Box JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 1

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Color copy of Philip Lewinthal and Sarah Weinbergs marriage certificate, 1881; page from "History of Darlington," referencing the Lewinthal home; letter (1976) from Salem College to Laz. L. Schneider re. his grandmother, Frances Lewinthal Schneiders, time at the school (1897-1900); copy of advertisement (printed in the Georgetown Times Dec. 1988) re. closing of The New Store, Inc (with image of owners, Philip and Harold Schneider).

Scope and Contents Photocopy of Lazarus Levkoff and Sophie Strashuns (d. 1915) Georgia marriage license, 1908; clipping from Columbia Record (1928) re. Luba Strashuns election to the S.C. Pharmaceutical Assoc.; article (Feb. 1999) from The State (Columbia, SC) re. the former home of Sonia Strashun; family tree, "Descendents of Moses M. Levkoff"; contact list from Levkoff Family Reunion (compiled 1998), includes names and addresses; article from New York Post re. performance of Elissa Lee (Elisha Fox), a...

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All color copies. Portrait images of Benedict Weinberg and Fannie Reis Weinberg, ca. 1870s; portrait images of Frances Lewenthal Schneider, ca. 1902 and Sarah Weinberg Lewenthal, ca. 1890; Citadel portrait of Philip Lewenthal, 1929; Laz L. Schneider at his bar mitzvah, 1952; group photograph, Levkoff Family Reunion, 1998.

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Business card (ca. 1950); note to Dorothy Kipnis typed on Morris Sokol Furniture letterhead, Jan. 16, 1992.

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Patch (5cm), "Registered Pharmacist"; clippings (photocopies): "Drug Stores, Pharmacies A Booming Business Here," Charleston Evening Post, Nov. 9, 1976 (with image of Kipnis preparing prescription and wearing patch similar to one mentioned above); "Dr. Frank Kipnis, Known to Thousands as "Dr. Kaye" Retires from Landmark Drug Store on King Street After 30 Years", Charleston Chronicle, Sept. 6,1986.

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Includes wedding invitation, letter that accompanied hotel "gift bags" for guests, "Weekend Playbill" describing wedding events (printed in form of an actual playbill), two copies of program distributed at the ceremony (Synagogue Emanu-El).

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection consists of sixteen letters and two poems, all handwritten originals. Majority (fourteen) are love letters (April-Dec. 1877) from Joseph Mann to Amelia (Milia) Robinson, written during their courtship. Mann did not write in English, so a friend wrote the letters for him. Topics include Mann's sentimental anticipation of their nuptials and his love for Robinson. His letters also mention family members in Laurens and Robinson's siblings, references to Mann's store in Newberry, SC;...

Collection Overview From the Collection: The collections includes two photographs. First is an 8X10 black and white print (not original) of the Jacob Wolper Family (made after the family was reunited in Charleston, 1915). Pictured are Cecile Wolper Lazarus (1903-1975), Pauline Wolper Lynch (1898-1950), Cecile Barr Wolper (1887-1965), Louis Edwin Wolper (1910-1987), Jacob Wolper (1876-1940) and Max Wolper (1900-1985). Second photograph is an 8X10 group image (black and white) of the South Carolina-Georgia Masada Conclave at Jekyll...

Collection Overview From the Collection: 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 From the Collection: 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...