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Adele Bloch Simon family papers, 1851-1969.
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Adele Bloch Simon family papers, 1851-1969Creator/Contributor:
Simon, Adele Bloch, 1889-1969, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 259.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1975.010.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeCreator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
Genealogical information for the Simon, Bloch and Steinman families; some family documents; and photographs. Photographs include
one of Achille Bloch's butcher shop on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, portraits of Clara Steinman Bloch (wife of Achille
Bloch), the Steinman family, Adele Bloch Simon, K. Heller (father of Adelaide Steinman), and Esther Heller (mother of Adelaide
Steinman).
Date:
1851 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSimon, Adele Bloch -- 1889-1969 -- Archives
Bloch, Achille
Simmons family
Steinman family
Butchers -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Jews, French -- California -- San Francisco
Fillmore (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 259.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1975.010.
Adele Bloch Simon family papers, BANC MSS 2010/564, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
After arriving in San Francisco in 1849, John Steinman became proprietor of the New Atlantic Hotel. Clara Steinman, daughter
of John Steinman and Adelaide Heller, married Achille Bloch, who came to San Francisco in 1871, after emigrating from Alsace.
The daughter of Clara Steinman and Achille Bloch, Adele (1886-1969), married Richard Simon. Adele Bloch Simon was a founder
and first president of the Gough Oral Deaf Parent Teachers Association, initiated state legislation concerning education of
deaf children, and was involved in planning a PTA national program for handicapped children at a 1930 White House conference.
An officer of the National Council of Jewish Women and of its San Francisco Section, she was an observer for the General Federation
of Women's Clubs at the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, France in 1948.
Materials in English.
Type:
Family papers-California-San Francisco.Physical Description:
1 folder and 1 oversize folder.
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585293