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Merchants

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

Fried Family Portrait, circa 1900

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00031
Abstract

Members of the Fried family stand in front of the Fried's Picture Frame Factory in Denver, Colorado. Kate, Bela and Eugene Fried are standing behind an iron fence while Bela and Kate's daughters, Bertha, Mary and Sally are in front of the fence. A large sign reads, ''Fried's Picture Frame Factory, Frames Made to Order, 4 cents a foot and up, Come In and See Our Stock''.

Dates: circa 1900

Fried's Gift Shop, between 1920-1929

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Identifier: B063.01.0001.00050
Abstract

Mary Fried, Bertha Fried, and Eugene Fried standing in Fried's Gift Shop with two unidentified women. Fried's Picture Frame Factory was the first framing store in Denver and later became an art and gift shop.

Dates: between 1920-1929

Fried's Gift Shop, between 1920-1930

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Identifier: B063.01.0001.00051
Abstract

Eugene Fried and Mary Fried stand in the Fried Gift Shop with unidentified women customers. Fried's Picture Frame Factory was the first framing store in Denver and later became an art and gift shop.

Dates: between 1920-1930

Fried's Gift Shop, circa 1940

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Identifier: B063.01.0001.00053
Abstract

Bertha Fried Kleiner and Mary Fried stand in Fried's Gift Shop. Fried's Picture Frame Factory was the first framing store in Denver and later became an art and gift shop.

Dates: circa 1940

From Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community Leaders, 2010

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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00009
Abstract

History of the ill-fated Cotopaxi Colony of Jewish immigrants in Colorado. Brief biographies of the families involved and their contribution to Denver and Colorado after they left the colony.

Dates: 2010

From Peddlers to Merchant Princes: Early Colorado Jewish Entrepreneurs, 2006

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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00005
Abstract Jews played a central role in the development of Colorado through their contributions to economic life and development. Denver's first mercantile store was opened by Jewish citizen Fred Salomon in 1859. Before long, stores run by Jewish merchants and their family members in search of work and wealth flourished on the main streets of most Colorado towns including, Denver, Central City, Leadville, Trinidad, and Fairplay. This film focuses on the lives of a number of early merchants, including...
Dates: 2006

Growing up in Early Colorado: The Lives of Jewish Children, 2012

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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00011
Abstract

Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who grew up in Jewish communities in Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with people describing their childhoods.

Dates: 2012

Guggenheim Family, 1910, 2011

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Identifier: B111.04.0004.0016
Abstract Meyer Guggenheim (1828-?) came to Philadelphia from Lagnau, Switzerland when he was nine years old. Meyer married his wife Barbara and began working as a peddler, but soon left the streets and opened a store. The couple had eleven children. Guggenheim went west to Leadville, Colorado, in the late 1850s to take care of the A.Y. Mine, which he had received as payment from a buyer. After mining proved to be less profitable than he had expected, Meyer went into the business of smelting. With...
Dates: 1910, 2011

Harry Hoffman in Front of His Father's Store, circa 1929

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Identifier: B063.01.0001.00047
Abstract

Harry Hoffman stands in front of his father's clothing store surrounded by jackets and boots. More shoes and clothing can be seen in window displays on either side of the door.

Dates: circa 1929

Henry Frank, circa 1900

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Identifier: B111.03.0003.0018
Abstract Henry Frank (1836-1916) was born in Obbach, Bavaria, to Mayer and Caroline Frank. He left for the United States at the age of eighteen in 1854 and began as a peddler in New York. He moved to Cincinnatti to briefly work as an apprentice in the textile buisiness before moving to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1856 to work in a retail clothing business. Frank joined a party of people headed to the Colorado area in search of gold, but were unsuccessful and returned to St. Joesph. Frank fought in the...
Dates: circa 1900