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Scope and Contents Two memorial photograph albums documenting the funeral of Moshe Yidel Gelbart. The albums were sent to his two brothers in South Carolina. Gelbart died of appendicitis on February 25, 1935, in Mogielnica, Poland. The albums, made of fabric and paper, contain black and white photographs that chronicle Gelbart's funeral procession, his casket, mourners, and gravesite, including an image of Gelbart with his wife and son eight days before his death. Each page includes decorative labels in Hebrew...