Box JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 1

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;...

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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).