Max Jacobsen Collection 1803-1894

Photocopies of documents: on the Schutzjude Moses Jacob during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1813); other documents relating to Jewish life in Hamburg; graduating diploma from "Hoehere Buergerschule" (1866); excerpt from letter of Louis Jacobsen to his son living in Leedsat the occasion of the outbreak of the Prussian French War (1870); letter of G. Roemer to Louis Jacobsen (1866) after he was refused the marriage with Emilie Jacobsen; partial translation of will of Nathan Joseph living in Wittingen (1844); excerpt from letter of Emilie Heine to her son Ludwig who is a first-year medical student in Munich (1894).

Portrait of Bernhard Wolffenstein (1803-1848)

The sitter was Dr.Ernst Hamburgers (of the L.B.I.Executive Commitee) great grandfather, a master dyer in Berlin by profession. He is shown almost frontally, smiling, dressed up in a suit and fancy shirt.

Zacharias Hamburger Collection 1803-1870

Photocopies of family papers, such as birth-, citizenship-, and marriage certificates, as well as a permit to trade in Schmiegel, Posen. Also included is a family tree, circa 1787-1880.

Hugo Steiner-Prag giving the opening address at the International Book Arts Exhibition; Leipzig.

Verso: Internationale Buchkunstausstellung Leipzing 1927. Eroeffnungsfeier in der Aula der Universitaet Prof. Hugo Steiner-Prag, Praesident der Austellung und I. Vors. des Vereins "Deutsche Buchkuenstler" haelt die Festrede

Hugo Steiner-Prag section at the International Book Arts Exhibition; Leipzig.

Verso: Internationale Buchkunstausstellung1927. Abteilung Hugo Steiner-Prag

Hugo Steiner-Prag approaching speaker's lectern at the International Book Arts Exhibition; Leipzig.

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Hugo Steiner-Prag seated in studio.

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Portrait of Hugo Steiner-Prag.

Handwritten dedication signed Fuer E.F. dated 1930; Signed by photographer lower right

Hugo Steiner-Prag and unidentified man discussing blueprints; Leipzig.

Photographers imprint bottom left

Portrait of Raeuberhauptmann (chief bandit) Wenzel Babinsky.

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Sokolosky: A Story of a Family 1860-1990

Genealogy of Sokolosky family reaching back to their Posen origins; emigration to New Orleans, Mississippi and Texas in 1860s; further family history in USA until 1990. Contains also preface by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, photographes of members of Sokolosky family, of gravestones and of family documents.

Statement of the Funds of K.K.S.I.

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Facsimile of Jonas Phillips' citizenship certificates

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Various bills and statements

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