Photograph of a man standing in front of a delivery truck. Delivering goods directly to homes was a common service in mid-century America. Peoples-Lehman Bakery was a South Minneapolis Jewish-owned business.
Created:
1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Demonstrated both OCR "swipe through" and OCR "wand reading" models of these terminals, plus a description of features. This was produced by Burroughs Corporate Audio Visual.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1982-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Three junior high school students from Mt. Calvary Lutheran school are seated at desks with Burroughs "Instructor" calculators. Two adult teachers are standing behind two of the students pointing out something in the student's books.
Created:
1955?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A table-top scale model of Cheyenne Mountain with a non-representational cut-away view of the NORAD facility. To the left of the model is a chunk of granite from the excavation. The "exhibit" panel under the granite states: Excavation of the huge cave which houses the NORAD Command Operations Center began in June 1960. Hardrock miners, working f...
Created:
1965?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Around the table are members of the Kaner, Shapiro, Milavitz, Hosen and Dorfman families. The Passover Seder celebrates the Jews passage to freedom from slavery in Egypt.
Created:
1912
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Muriel Humphrey, wife of Hubert H. Humphrey, and Jay Phillips, founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, sit at a table while attending a Mount Sinai Women's Auxiliary annual meeting. Mount Sinai Hospital was built in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the 1950s to address the discrimination Jewish doctors experienced admitting Jewish patients to local hospi...
Contributor:
Newell H. Barnard Studio (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Created:
1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Six men look on as Marolyn Henn, Burroughs Operator in the Commercial Inspection Department, demonstrates a commercial bookkeeping machine at the Burroughs Adding Machine Company Detroit plant. The men are attending the National Association of Cost Accountants (NACA) local chapter's regular meeting, and tour of the Burroughs facility. December 1...
Created:
1949
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Three men look on as Alice Dallmeir, Field Instructor, operates a commercial bookkeeping machine at the Burroughs Adding Machine Company Detroit plant. The men are attending the National Association of Cost Accountants (NACA) local chapter's regular meeting, and tour of the Burroughs facility. December 1949. Standing left to right are: P. A. Due...
Created:
1949
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Photograph showing members of the National Jewish Workers Alliance Home standing in front of the meeting hall, which appears to be a personal home. N. J. W. A. was the Americanized name for the Farband. This is the second part of a two part photograph. See also mhs06636.
Created:
1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Photograph of a woman using a measuring tape to measure the length of a skirt on another woman. Neighborhood House was founded by the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society. Neighborhood House was founded primarily to provide recreational, educational and social activities to residents of the West Side neighborhood. It maintained an active recreationa...
Created:
1911
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Photograph showing the front exterior of the Neighborhood House, which was the first settlement house in St. Paul serving the Jewish community. It was founded in 1897 by the women of Temple Mt. Zion as a place for newly arrived Eastern European immigrants to receive social and medical services.
Created:
1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A duplicate portrait photograph of Nellie Weiss Bondy in her wedding dress. Nellie Weiss married Louis Bondy in 1886: the event is reputed to have been the first Jewish wedding in Duluth.
Created:
1886
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
6B: Steel workers on roof; surveyors on steel; more steel. 7B: Randy Fisher; pan of rooftop with steel; steel workers; Dick Joy getting out of car; rooftop shot of construction of 1st two wings.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1968
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
New building - outdoors; saying sod; pans of building; sod buckets; new building - inside; lounge and reception area; plaque in lobby; hallways; offices all messed up; empty offices; furniture moving; working on electricity and pipes.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Inside of new building; boxes, etc, offices being moved into; old building - hallways and old offices; van lines truck pulling in and being unloaded; moving of furniture.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1971
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Shots from top of Fisher building: with fluid head; with zoom lens; plasterers and wall tilers; more Fisher shots; carpenters working on walls. W.O. 15360.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Features H. R. White, the Corporate Engineering & Manufacturing Energy Conservation Manager, who gives three examples of how a energy shortage could affect the company. Similar to CP30.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Contributor:
White, H. R.
Created:
1983-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Describes CP3680, designed for use as a front-end communications processor in an integrated network of terminals and host computers and Computer Management Group's (Britain) use of the CP3680 to provide computer services.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
13B: Truck with shovel driving in construction area; Construction shots -misc.; Cement mixer; steel beams being hoisted; worker looking at plans. 14B: building construction shots; 3 men hammering; pan over rooftop.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1969-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Begins upsidedown then flips to footage of a man laying down and drinking coffee, a phone being answered, storage boxes, and Burroughs World Headquarters building B-roll. This is probably footage for a promotional or training video of some sort. Black and White film.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1969-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A three quarters view of a nine column adding machine viewed. This machine has small clear panels on side allows partial viewing of interior mechanisms.
Created:
1909
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A fully assembled Norden Bomb Sight in a display case. The serial number plate on the bomb sight states "U. S. Army Air Forces Bomb Sight type M9 Serial No. 82849 Order No. 44-1283 Spec. No. [--] Carl L. Norden, Inc." The exhibit card caption reads: " The skills developed by Burroughs people in building precision business machines have been put ...
Created:
1952
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A young boy sits in the driver's seat of a truck while Norm Silberstein stands in the truck bed. Scrap metal collection was a business dominated by Jews throughout America's large cities. It was considered "dirty work", and therefore open to immigrants looking for jobs. Louis Paper and Moses Calmenson founded their business in 1891.
Created:
1920-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
