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Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968.
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Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968Hither and Thither in California: a glimpse of California caught by the members of the Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations and the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists after the annual conventions held in
San Francisco, July 5, 6, 7, 1899
Creator/Contributor:
Jaffa, Adele Solomons, 1868-1953, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Jaffa, Myer E. (Myer Edward), 1857-1931Creator/Contributor:
Jaffa, Aileen Raby, 1900-1988Creator/Contributor:
Committee for the Advance of Agricultural Research in PalestineCreator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 146.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1969.010.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeCreator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection includes biographies; a few professional papers by Adele Solomons Jaffa; clippings; and photographs. The photographs
include an 1893 portrait of Adele Solomons at her graduation from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific, a 1902 portrait
of Adele Solomons Jaffa with her children, Edward and Aileen, a portrait of Myer E. Jaffa, a photograph of the interior of
Madame Rabe Jaffa's home on Bush Street in San Francisco (circa 1880), and a photograph of Sarah and Michael Stein at the
marriage of their son Allan to Yvonne Daunt in Paris in 1922 (also pictured are Yvonne Daunt and her mother). The collection
also includes minutes (handwritten and typed) and a membership list for the California-based Committee for the Advance of
Agricultural Research in Palestine, which was founded in 1934 and for which Aileen Jaffa Katzky (a poet and artist who was
the head librarian of the Agricultural Library at the University of California, Berkeley) was secretary, and a copy of "Hither
and Thither in California," a report of a trip around California organized by Myer E. Jaffa for the attendees of the 1899
annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations and the Association of Official
Agricultural Chemists.
Date:
1880 (issued)Subject:
a-is--- -- n-us-caAgriculture -- Research -- Palestine
Jews -- California
Jewish families -- California
Jewish women -- California
Agriculture -- Recherche -- Palestine
Juifs -- Californie
Familles juives -- Californie
Juives -- Californie
Agriculture -- Research
Families
Jewish families
Jewish women
Jews
California
Middle East -- Palestine
Jaffa, Adele Solomons -- 1868-1953 -- Archives
Daunt, Yvonne -- Family -- Portraits
Stein, Allan -- Family -- Portraits
Stein, Michael -- Family -- Portraits
Stein, Sarah -- Family -- Portraits
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 146.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC WJHC 1969.010.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Related collection: Myer Edward Jaffa papers (BANC MSS C-B 1013).
Adele Solomons was born in San Francisco on November 7, 1868, the daughter of Seixus and Hannah Marks Solomons. She received
an M.D. in homeopathy from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific. She married Myer Edward Jaffa, who was born in Sydney,
Australia in 1857 and immigrated to California with his family in the mid 1860s. Dr. Adele Solomons Jaffa was a physician,
lecturer in dietetics at UC Berkeley between 1912 and 1914, and child psychiatrist (on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute
of Child Welfare at UC Berkeley between 1928 and 1935). She developed the California Preschool Mental Scale. Her interest
in and enthusiasm for diagnosis of emotional and psychological problems in children led her to enter private practice as the
"Play Doctor" in the offices of William Palmer Lucas in San Francisco, where she remained from 1934 until her retirement in
1952. Myer E. Jaffa was an agricultural chemist, professor of nutrition at the University of California, and first director
of the California Bureau of Food and Drugs. He was an early advocate of pure food and drug laws for human and domestic animal
consumption, and was associated with the movement which resulted in passage of the federal food and drug laws.
Preferred citation: Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, BANC MSS 2010/626, The Magnes Collection of Jewish
Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
Biographies.Genealogies.
family papers.
Minutes.
personal papers.
photographs.
Photographs
Archives
Portraits
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
1 box (.2 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585205
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.