Levitt family

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Sisters Dorothy and Anne Levitt are standing in front of a building. Dorothy Levitt, standing on the left, is wearing a necklace and Anne Levitt has ribbons on her dress. The girls' parents were Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt.

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Sisters Dorothy and Anne Levitt are standing on the porch of their home at 15th Street and Dale Court in Denver, Colorado. Dorothy and Anne Levitt are wearing coats and are holding their nephew Jack Levitt. The girls' parents were Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt who came from Russia and settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue in Denver. Jack Levitt's parents were Jerry Milton Levitt and Esther Cohen Levitt.

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Series 1 contains digital images of the Levitt family in Denver, Colorado that were scanned from the original photographs. The photographs are of an Eastern European Jewish family in Denver during the twentieth century.

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Dorothy Levitt Cohen and her nephew Eddie Richardson are standing on a sidewalk. Eddie Richardson is his navy uniform. Dorothy Cohen was the daughter of Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt. Eddie Richardson was the son of George and Sarah Levitt Richardson.

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Dorothy Levitt Cohen, her nephew Eddie Richardson, and her mother Yetta Prezant Levitt are standing on a sidewalk. Eddie Richardson is in his navy uniform. Dorothy Cohen was the daughter of Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt. Eddie Richardson was the son of George and Sarah Levitt Richardson.

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Eddie Richardson is posing in his navy uniform. He was the son of George and Sarah Levitt Richardson.

Abstract Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt are standing inside the Congregation Zera Abraham synagogue in a full-length portrait. Yetta Levitt is wearing a dress with a corsage and Isadore Levitt is wearing a suit and hat with a boutonnière. They came from Russia in the early 1900s and settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The Zera Abraham synagogue, at 1560 Julian street, was founded in 1887 by former colonists in Cotopaxi,...

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The Levitt children are standing in front of their brick home at 15th street and Dale Court in Denver, Colorado. In the back row from left to right are Morris (Moshe) Levitt, Tillie Levitt (Tein), and Mary Levitt (Rubanowitz). In the front row from left to right are Anne Levitt (Marcus), Edward Levitt, and Dorothy Levitt (Cohen). The children's' parents were Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt who settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue.

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A directory of the extended Levitt family with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Copy of typed family directory.

Abstract Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt and their descendants have lived in Denver, Colorado for over a century. Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt came to Denver, Colorado from Russia in the early 1900s and settled in the Eastern European Jewish enclave around West Colfax Avenue. The Levitt Family Papers contain a family tree, a reunion directory and scanned photographs. The papers reflect the Americanization of an Eastern European Jewish extended family during the twentieth...