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Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-108
Abstract
Photographs and photograph facsimiles of members of the Breibart family of Charleston, South Carolina. Samuel Breibart established a grocery store on Meeting Street called Breibart's Grocery. Photographs primarily include four of his five children: Solomon Breibart, a high school teacher and local historian, Mildred Breibart Sonenshine, Sidney Breibart, a pediatrician, and Jack Breibart, a journalist and newspaper editor. Also included are a small number of photographs of the Goldberg family...
Dates:
1916-1938, 1999
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1148
Abstract
The family papers of the Collis family of Charleston and Kingstree, South Carolina, reflect the experience of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to South Carolina. Materials include migration, marriage, education, and military documents; photographs; clippings; ephemera; and correspondence. Meyer Collis immigrated from Bialystok, Poland, to the United States sometime in the early 20th century; his future wife Lena Schiawitz followed in 1905. They settled in Charleston, where...
Dates:
approximately 1900-2008; Majority of material found within 1906-1967
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-044
Collection Overview
Black wool dinner jacket, lined in black with sleeves lined in mauve, carries a label sewn inside collar: "Bentschner and Visanska Fashionable Outfitters, Charleston, S.C." A label on an interior pocket states: "Tailored in all-wool/fabric by A.B. Kirschbaum Co., Philadelphia, New York" and provides a line for the owner's name and date.
Dates:
between 1915-1940
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-090
Abstract
Collection consists of a full page advertisement for Furchgott and Brothers and a postcard of a 1900 photograph of King Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1910
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-045
Collection Overview
Includes Hirschman family biographical notes, news clippings (1918-1987) and images (1912-1975). Original souvenir handkerchief from the 1929 South Carolina Federation of Temple Sisterhoods annual meeting held in Greenville, SC. Also includes several images of the Rivkin family, ca. 1910 and 1920.
Dates:
1910-1987
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-097
Abstract
The collection includes a spring 1910 catalog from Hornik's Bargain House of Charleston, South Carolina, a dry goods wholesale store. The catalog contains descriptions, images, and prices of goods as well as general advice on how to run a successful business. Also included is a color reproduction of a postcard featuring the Charleston city market on Meeting Street. The M. Hornik & Co. storefront, located on the corner of Meeting and Market Streets, can be seen in the background.
Dates:
1910
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1058
Collection Overview
Collection consists of five original photographs (ca. 1910) of I.D. Rubin stores in Charleston, SC. Includes two interior and two exterior images of Uncle Dave's New York Pawn Office, 128-130 Market Street. Exterior image of Rubin's Specialty Store, 316 King Street, operated by Leon Rubin (son of Isaac Dave Rubin). All photographs are mounted on decorative board; several were taken by Charleston photographer, D.H. Baker. Includes folder of images (black and white photocopies) of the Isaac...
Dates:
1910
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1012
Collection Overview
Includes correspondence, typescripts, photographs, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, photocopies.
Papers related to Harold's Cabin include correspondence and articles (1950s-1960s), clippings (1970s-1990s), photographs (1920s-1960s), organizational history, and letters from Charleston mayors and national figures. Collection also contains personal papers: speeches (1980s) made at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) and KKBE correspondence (1979-1981); papers (1942-1945) regarding United States Army...
Dates:
1905-1990; Majority of material found within 1920-1980
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-104
Abstract
Three photographs of Harold Jacobs, owner of the Charleston, South Carolina, grocery store Harold's Cabin.
Dates:
1988, undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-040
Collection Overview
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.
Dates:
1927-1929