John and Ursula Schlosstein nee Gottschalk with their infant son Ralph. portraits family

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John Ettinger Collection 1941-1946

John Ettinger, 1987.

John and Ursula Schlosstein nee Gottschalk with their infant son Ralph. portraits family

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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.

Congregation Shearith Israel (New York, N.Y.) records, undated, 1755-1996.

Contains published and manuscript material relating to the activities and administration of the congregation and its subsidiary organizations including reports and weekly bulletins, early financial records and lists of those honored at religious services, copies of resolutions and forms of service and prayers for various occasions in manuscript form. Contains also material relating to the cemetery photographs, the Hebra Hased Va-Amet (the congregational burial society) and to later clergy in the congregation, Henry Pereira Mendes, David de Sola Pool and Louis Coleman Gerstein including published copies of their sermons.

Franks family papers, 1711-1821, [1965-1968].

Contains business correspondence, accounts and documents relating to Jacob Franks of New York, his two sons, Moses and David, a nephew, Isaac, and a John Franks of Halifax, possibly a member of the family.

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.

Contract with John Moore for building house on Mill Street

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Warrant to pay John Moore for building house on Mill Street

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