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Ben Wisebart, Wide Awake Clothiers

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Advertising Card for Ben Wisebart, Clothier, circa 1876

 Item
Identifier: B063.01.0009.00011
Abstract

Advertising card that reads "Ben Wisebart Wide Awake Clothier, 366 Larimer St., Denver, Colorado." Wisebart was elected mayor of Central City, Colo. in 1876. His sister was Frances Wisebart Jacobs. This photograph of the card was taken circa 1978.

Dates: circa 1876

Box 1, between 1869-1996

 File — Box B319.01.0001: Series B319.01 [Barcode: U186020736516]
Identifier: B319.01.0001
Scope and Contents

The book Vale of Cedars; The Martyr by Grace Aguilar (1868) was awarded Celestine Lesem by the Hebrew Bible School in Quincy, Ill. Folder with papers and documents.

Dates: between 1869-1996

Family Papers and Records, 1873-1996

 File
Identifier: B319.01.0001.0001
Scope and Contents One folder contains wedding invitation for Benjamin and Clara Drefoos (1873), wedding invitation for Edna Wisebart (1912), 1896 Masons card for Benjamin W. Wisebart, Drefoos family history (1996), Jacobs and Wisebart Family Tree, memorial to Rosetta Wisebart (1918) by the Council of Jewish Women, and copy of a 1881 advertisement for Ben Wisebart The Wide Awake Clothier on Larimer Street. Second folder contains Marriage Certificate for Edna Wisebart and Harry L. Wohlgemuth, dated October 6,...
Dates: 1873-1996

Wisebart Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B319

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Type
Archival Object 4
Collection 1
 
Subject
Central City (Colo.) 3
Denver (Colo.) 3
Family histories 3
Weddings 3
Colorado 2