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Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Private Note: This term is an LCSH subdivision only. Used under places and classes of persons. Consider LCSH: Manners and customs as a heading.

Found in 377 Collections and/or Records:

Close View of Three Men in Automobiles on Bridge, 1906

 Item
Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00012
Abstract Three men are sitting in two automobiles on a bridge. Cottonwood trees are on the bank of the river. Milton Louis Anfenger, smoking a cigar, is sitting sideways in a automobile with his legs extended. He is balancing his hat on his right foot. The photograph is on page 79 of Milton Anfenger's scrapbook. It is said that Congregation Emanuel in Denver, Colorado was founded at the bris or circumcision ceremony of Milton Anfenger, the eldest son of Louis and Louise Anfenger. Milton Anfenger...
Dates: 1906

Collage of Cook, Battock, and Hayutin Businesses, between 1900-1930

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Identifier: B063.01.0029.0003.00001
Abstract The upper left photograph shows Ida Cook and her daughter standing in front of a house. Harry and Ida Cook owned the Cook's Russian Baths in Denver, Colorado. At night, the Baths served as a mikveh (ritual bath) that was operated for women by Ida Cook. During the day the Baths served as a popular steam bath open to the public, complete with catered kosher meals. The upper right photograph shows Harry Battock, who came to Denver to be treated at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, and...
Dates: between 1900-1930

Collage of Greeley Businesses, between 1900-1920

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Identifier: B063.01.0031.0008.00001
Abstract Three photographs of Greeley, Colorado businesses. The upper left photograph shows an exterior view of Abe Winograd's poultry business. Painted on the building is ''Poultry wanted at all times'' and pictures of a hen and a rooster. The photograph below shows an exterior view Samuel Pinsky's Coal, Hay, and Feed business. Samuel Pinsky is seated in the driver's seat of a wagon loaded with coal. Main photograph, two men sit in the interior of Montifiore J. Moses' Real Estate and Insurance Co....
Dates: between 1900-1920

Collection on Guldman Family and Golden Eagle Dry Goods

 Collection
Identifier: B294
Abstract Leopold H. Guldman was born in Harburg, Bavaria in 1853 and immigrated to the United States in 1870. He was one of Colorado's leading merchants and philanthropists. Guldman came to the Colorado mountains in search of silver, but found it more profitable to open the Golden Eagle clothing stores in Leadville and Cripple Creek. In 1879, Guldman moved to Denver and opened his third and most successful Golden Eagle enterprise, which for many years was Denver's leading popular-price department...
Dates: between 1894-2013

Colorado Association of Elks, 1912

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Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00021
Abstract A group of Colorado Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks members pose in front of the Elks building at 421 Main Street in Ouray, Colorado. The brick Elks Lodge is a 1906 Italianate-Second Empire building. Over the front entrance is a clock with an elk's head decoration in the center of the clock. The curved arch area of the windows have leaded stained glass pieces. Anfenger is fourth from the right of men who are sitting. The photograph is on page 177 of Milton Anfenger's scrapbook. It is...
Dates: 1912

Consecration Class at Temple Emanuel, 1954

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Identifier: B063.06.0022.00025
Abstract

Thirty children, members of the Consecration Class, and three men pose together in the library at Temple Emanuel. Robert Sam Philippi is one of the boys in the photograph.

Dates: 1954

Consecration Class at Temple Emanuel, 1957

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Identifier: B063.06.0022.00027
Abstract

Forty-five children, members of the Consecration Class, and two men pose together in a stage at Temple Emanuel.

Dates: 1957

Consecration Class at Temple Emanuel, 1957

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Identifier: B063.06.0022.00028
Abstract

Forty-five children, members of the Consecration Class, and two men pose together in a stage at Temple Emanuel.

Dates: 1957

Cook Bath Composite, circa 1925

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00003
Abstract

Composite image of a page from The Jewish Digest with an article titled ''We'll Go a Little to the Baths'' by Ida Hurwitz and two photographs. The photograph on the left shows Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lang standing outside in front of a large building with tree trunk columns at Manitou Springs, Colorado. The photograph on the right shows six young people, two men and four women, including Susie Finer Cook posed together on a hill in Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1925

Cookbook, circa 2000

 File
Identifier: B356.05.0026.0010
Scope and Contents

Contains "Generations of Recipes" cookbook created by Valerie Gross Schreiber. The cookbook has recipes from memebers of the extended Bercu and Gross families and also photographs.

Dates: circa 2000