Portrait of Rabbi Dr. Nahum Schulman, rabbi of Mikro Kodesh Synagogue. In 1949, Mikro Kodesh of Minneapolis, Minnesota was the largest orthodox synagogue in the Twin Cities. By the late 1960, due to Jewish families emigrating to the neighboring Saint Louis Park, the synagogue merged with a conservative synagogue and later became B'nai Emet Synag...
Created:
1967
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A portrait of Robert Lazarus, who played violin with both the Chicago and Oakland (CA) Symphony Orchestras during the 1920s. After his professional playing career ended, he opened a violin repair shop in downtown St. Paul.
Created:
1918?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Jonathan, Judy, and David Lebeoff stand behind a display of folded paper animals. Judy holds an instruction book on how to make the paper animals. Martin and Mary Lebedoff lived on the North Side of Minneapolis. The triplets were born in April of 1938.
Created:
1943?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Members of the Schwartz family posed on an outdoor porch. The Schwartz's lived at 1101 Upton Avenue N. Max Schwarz owned Schwartz Used Cars on N. 7th St.
Created:
1940?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of children sit on the steps of the J. E. C. dressed for a fall outing. The Jewish Educational Center was the precursor to the St. Paul Jewish Community Center. It served as a recreation and education, and by 1939 over 100 community groups, including Boy and Girl Scouts, a theater company, and two orchestra were using the facility.
Created:
1938
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Children standing outside of the Jewish Educational Center in handmade costumes. The Jewish Educational Center was the precursor to the St. Paul J. C. C. It served as a recreation and education center, and by 1939 over 100 community groups, including Boy and Girl Scouts, a theater company, and two orchestras were using the facility.
Created:
1938
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Britain's royal couple, Queen Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, are presented with "baby" calculators for their children by Mr. John S. Coleman, President of Burroughs, during their recent tour of the Company's manufacturing plant at Strathleven, Scotland. In leather carrying cases lined with tartan, the calculators are especially finishe...
Created:
1953
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Edward W. Schening holds the two portions of the two millionth printed circuit, presented to him by employees of Military Electronic Computer Division (MECD). Four other employees are pictured with Mr. Schening.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A price list from Steinberg Bag & Burlap Company. "Dealers in all kinds of Second-Hand Cotton Bags and Burlap." Formal businesses like Steinberg Bag and Burlap Company of Minneapolis emerged from the peddling and rag collecting businesses that some first generation Jews took up after immigrating to America.
Created:
1925-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Advertisement picturing an adding machine. Text reads: The Burroughs Registering Accountant especially designed to meet the Requirements of Banking and Counting House Business. The Most Convenient and Reliable Adding Machine in the World. Manufactured by the American Arithmometer Co., St. Louis, MO." Advertisement dates to circa 1891.
Created:
1995
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A woman wearing a banner which reads: "Introducing: The New Burroughs Director '200' adding-subtracting machines" stands before and gestures to a display of print advertisements for the Director machines.
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Three men working an office. A seated man in the foreground is looking at accounting machine with case removed, a second man is working at drafting table, and the third is working at bench.
Created:
1913
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
