A group of children, some of them Cub Scouts from troop 670, Los Angeles, California, and several adults, crowd around a display about the ALTAS and ALRI systems. Walter O'Brien, standing behind the table top display, talks about the systems.
Created:
1960
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Roy L. Manning (far left) points toward an exhibition panel about the U.S.A.F. ATLAS Guidance Control Loop, while Lt. Colonel Gaylord, Mrs. M. B. Gaylord, and son look on.
Created:
1960
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Two boys are looking at Burroughs Advertising posters and machine parts on a display table in the Plymouth, Michigan, factory. A cluster of adults, also looking at the display table, can be seen on the left of the image. The far right panel promotes Burroughs' Defense Products and features the crate of gyrosyns seen in image ID no. 319 as its gr...
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Three Burroughs Adding machines and calculators are set up on a long table. A crowed of people are looking at the machines and two girls are trying the machines. Two Advertising signs over the table are visible and read (right to left) "Introducing the Director 200, Try It!," "Investigate before you Calculate! See the Burroughs Calculator with M...
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Photograph of attendees of the Oreck family Seder. The hosts of this Seder were Ida and Arthur Oreck. Arthur Oreck is to the far right of the picture. The Oreck family settled in the Duluth area.
Created:
1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Men and boys playing table tennis on Center Day. Sports and recreational activities took place at the Annex, an old house and yard next door to the J. E. C. The Annex remained in use until 1940, when deteriorating conditions caused it to close.
Created:
1938
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Three quarter view from the top and right of an adding machine and pay roll segregator. The pay roll segregator machine appears to be a separate component attached to an older adding machine (possibly a 7 column class 100 machine). The modification to the hand pull is clearly visible as are the brackets and spacers which attach the pay roll segr...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Clip from TV show about PGA use of Burroughs products for electronic scoring analysis of championship featuring interview with Dr. Peggy Borsay, a Burroughs Senior Public Affairs officer.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Contributor:
Borsay, Peggy
Created:
1980
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Loretta (Lucky) Bellman escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and settled in New York, where her father started a successful furniture business. Butch Levy met and fell in love with Lucky, marrying her in 1944. Peter Bellman, Lucky's brother, had been sent to Britain on a children's transport in 1938, and was finally reunited with the family in America 1...
Created:
1943?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This photographic negative is from the records of the Burroughs Corporation, a major manufacturer of computing and technical equipment for industry. The image in the negative represents African American participation as part of the Burroughs Corportation workforce.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1961
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
This photographic negative is from the records of the Burroughs Corporation, a major manufacturer of computing and technical equipment for industry. The image in the negative represents African American participation as part of the Burroughs Corportation workforce.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1962
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Photograph of a placard detailing different activities taking place at the Jewish Education Center on Center Day. Center Day showcased the facilities and services at the J. E. C., and allowed the community to observe a cross-section of the activities that took place there.
Created:
1938?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Photograph of the Plitman family sitting at a dining table. Passover Seders begin with a retelling of the story of the deliverance of the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage. It includes foods symbolic of the years of slavery and flight from Egypt. Seders are family and community observances, held primarily in the home. The Plitman family lived ...
Created:
1917
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Photograph looking west down Plymouth Avenue. Cars are driving down the street and train tracks are visible running down the street. Plymouth Avenue was the hub of the Jewish north side. Services from printing to food markets to restaurants and theaters helped create and maintain a sense of community identity and continuity.
Created:
1940 - 1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Burroughs factory exterior and parking lot. Many people are walking around the building, and a small sign with an arrow reads: "Open House Entrance." Companion image to ID no. 356 and no. 357.
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Portrait photograph of men and women members of Poale Zion, which was a Zionist-Socialist-Laborite group founded in Russia. The St. Paul chapter in the picture is promoting "Tag Day" a fundraising activity supporting Jewish emigration to Palestine. The future first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, is pictured standing fourth from the ...
Created:
1916
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait photograph of the Poalie Zion group wearing sashes which show support for the striking New York garment workers. Poale Zion was a Zionist-Socialist-Laborite group founded in Russia. Chapters of the organization were established in the United States, where they helped raised funds for Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Created:
1910?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait photograph of members of the Polar Club. The Polar Club was an organization of young boys and teens founded in 1931 through the Emanuel Cohen Center. The Polars organized sporting events and teams.
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A reprint of a photograph of the Popkin family sitting at a dining table set with plates and glasses. Passover Seders begin with a retelling of the story of the deliverance of the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage. It includes foods symbolic of the years of slavery and flight from Egypt. Seders are family and community observances, held primar...
Created:
1910
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A manual Portable Adding Machine, style 8.08.01, The keyboard, which uses the atypical square keys, features a bulletin holder along the left side, one alphabetic column, and six numeric columns
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Dr. Moses Barron was instrumental in the creation of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis. Prior to hospital construction in 1949, Jewish doctors were denied admitting privileges to local hospitals. Determined to address this discrimination, the Jewish community raised the capital to build Mt. Sinai hospital in South Minneapolis. Initially, Dr. Bar...
Created:
1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Etta Zrive and Abraham Bearman were born in different Lithuanian shtetls in the 1870s. Their clothes and home furnishings suggest they were economically comfortable by the time that this photo was taken in the early 1900s.
Created:
1903
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Harry Goldie had an interesting career, which included amateur boxing, coaching, and real estate development. He spearheaded the creation of the Calhoun Beach Club. While the club was chartered in 1928 and building began in 1929, financing for it foundered during the Depression, and it didn't officially open until 1946. Goldie's dream for the cl...
Created:
1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Harry Goldie posed in fighting stance wearing boxing uniform. He was an exceptional boxer the first boxing coach for the University of Minnesota and the developer for the Calhoun Beach Club, a Minneapolis architectural landmark.
Created:
1914
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait of Harry Goldie He was an exceptional boxer the first boxing coach for the University of Minnesota and the developer for the Calhoun Beach Club, a Minneapolis architectural landmark.who was the first boxing coach at the University of Minnesota.
Created:
1920
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait photograph of Ida Cook sitting in a chair. The Cook family, headed by Rabbi Isaac Cook and his wife Ida, arrived in Duluth in the 1880s from Lithuania. They organized minyans and their home served as a welcoming center for new immigrants coming to the city. Ida Cook spearheaded the establishment of Duluth's first Hebrew school.
Created:
1933
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Kafka became Sexton (custodian) of Temple Mount Zion in 1874. He was responsible for the care of the Temple, keeping the heat on, collecting contributions, and carrying out the directives of the congregation president. Whether the pay for his service was insufficient can only be conjectured, but Kafka left his job for a post on the St. Paul Poli...
Created:
1890
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait of Rabbi Albert G. Minda, rabbi of Temple Israel Synagogue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and a spiritual leader of Minneapolis Jews from 1922-1963. Additionally, he was co-founder of the Minneapolis Urban League and Round Table Conference of Christians and Jews.
Created:
1950 - 1963
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Rabbi Wechsler (pronounced Wexler) lead the congregation's sponsoring a Jewish farming settlement in the Dakota Territories. The settlement attempted to help Russian Jewish immigrants find livelihoods working the land in the American West. Though the farm colony ultimately failed, he was considered an innovator and modernizer. Late in his career...
Created:
1870?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait of Rabbi S. I. Levin, who served the congregations Sharei Tzedek Synagogue and Sharei Chesed Synagogue of Minneapolis, Minnesota for more than 63 years. He was the highly respected dean of Minneapolis Orthodox rabbis until his death in 1984. A prolific writer in scholarly Hebrew journals, he was one of the founders of the Minneapolis Fe...
Created:
1950 - 1960
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
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.
