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Jewish women

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1526 Collections and/or Records:

Selma Fist, 1915-04-24

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Identifier: B063.08.0024.0133
Abstract

Newspaper article with photo of Selma Fist upon her engagement to Alfred Grauman.

Dates: 1915-04-24
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 24

Selma Grauman and Daughter Jeanne, circa 1920

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Identifier: B063.05.0041.00003
Abstract

Formal studio portrait of Selma Fist Grauman holding her infant daughter Jeanne Grauman Simon.

Dates: circa 1920
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 41

Seraphine Pisko, circa 1930

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00074
Abstract

Seraphine Pisko sits at her desk at National Jewish Hospital.

Dates: circa 1930
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 8

Seraphine Pisko, c. 1930

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00001
Abstract Seraphine Eppstein Pisko sits at a desk at National Jewish Hospital (NJH). She served as the president of the Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society (renamed the Jewish Relief Society in 1901) and as president of the Denver Council of Jewish Women. She also helped organize the Denver Jewish Settlement House and a free kindergarten to benefit the Eastern European Jewish immigrants on Denver's west side. Pisko became a fund-raiser for the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, and in 1911 she...
Dates: c. 1930
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 11

Seraphine Pisko 75th Birthday Program, 1936 January 5

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Identifier: B242.02.0001.0002.00002
Abstract Program for Seraphine Pisko's seventy-fifth birthday anniversary dinner held by the board of managers of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver. The Dinner was held at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Rabbi William S. Friedman was the toastmaster and a number of people spoke on Seraphine Pisko's career. Seraphine Eppstein Pisko (1861-1942) began working at National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives as a field secretary, fund raiser, in 1900. In 1911 she became the...
Dates: 1936 January 5
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B242, Collection on Seraphine Pisko / Organizational Letterhead, Invitation and Program / Box 1 / Organizational Letterhead, Invitation and Program

Series 7, M-O

 Series
Identifier: B111.07
Abstract

Dates: Coverage: 1836-2017
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection

Sewing Book, circa 1890

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Identifier: B106.01.0009.00001
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The book contains handwritten directions on sewing techniques with examples of each stitch attached on the adjoining page. Fannie Anfenger's name is inscribed on the cover of her sewing exercise book, which she used for classes at Gilpin Elementary School. Fannie Anfenger (1885-1965) was the daughter of Louis and Louise Schlesinger Anfenger. She married Sidney Rinds and they had one son, Louis Rinds.

Dates: circa 1890
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B106, Anfenger Family Diaries and Material Culture / Material Culture / Box 9

Shafner Family , 1992

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Identifier: B111.09.0009.0007
Abstract Edith Cooper Golden was born in 1904 in Ratno, Ukraine, and moved with her family to Denver in 1909. She married Frank Shlomo Golden and had at least one daughter, Evelyn Golden Shafner, who married Sol David Shafner (originally from Philadelphia, PA), owner of Denver's Kiddieland, in 1951. Their daughter, Rhonda Shafner is a reporter for the Denver Post and the wife of Eric Weisberg. Edith and her extended family, including cousin Tommy Cooper, fled to Denver in the early years of the 20th...
Dates: 1992
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 9, S-V / Box 9

Sheffel Sisters, 1902 October

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Identifier: B100.02.0001.0002.00001
Abstract

The Sheffel sisters pose for a formal group portrait at the studio of Mrs. B.B. Chase in Denver, Colorado in October 1902. Back row: Millie (Mrs. Joseph Levy), Jennie (Mrs. Joseph Washer), Rose (Mrs. David Greinetz). Front row: Mary (Mrs. M. Joseph Gottstein), Birdie (Mrs. M. Schraiberg), and Leah (Mrs. Harris Kobey, mother of Dorothy “Dokes” Kobey Berry).

Dates: 1902 October
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B100, Dorothy (Dokes) Kobey Berry Papers / Photographs / Box 1 / Photographs of the Kobey and Related Families

Sheffel Sisters, 1902 October

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Identifier: B100.03.0001.0003.00018
Abstract

The Sheffel sisters pose for a formal group portrait at the studio of Mrs. B.B. Chase in Denver, Colorado in October 1902. Back Row: Millie (Mrs. Joseph Levy), Jennie (Mrs. Joseph Washer), Rose (Mrs. David Greinetz). Front Row: Mary (Mrs. M. Joseph Gottstein), Birdie (Mrs. M. Schraiberg), and Leah (Mrs. Harris Kobey, mother of Dorothy “Dokes” Kobey Berry).

Dates: 1902 October
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B100, Dorothy (Dokes) Kobey Berry Papers / Digitized Materials / Box 1 / Background Materials for Oral History of Dorothy ''Dokes'' Kobey Berry

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