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[Dora Hart Schweitzer family photograph album].
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[Dora Hart Schweitzer family photograph album]Creator/Contributor:
Schweitzer, Dora Hart, creator, creator.Abstract:
Family photograph album compiled by Dora Hart Schweitzer, chiefly containing studio portraits of Schweitzer, Hart, Koshland
and Golden family members, among others. Includes some portraits of Dora; most individuals are unidentified. Also includes
ephemera and photographs pertaining to artworks of sculptor Atanas Katchamakoff; watercolor paintings of houses and a boat
at sea; typescript poems; clippings pertaining to various topics; a 1945 eulogy for U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
published by Temple Emanu-el in San Francisco; and other miscellaneous ephemera.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFamilies -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Jewish families -- California -- San Francisco -- Portraits
Families
Jewish families
California -- San Francisco
Schweitzer, Dora Hart -- Archives
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Compiled by Dora Hart Schweitzer, whose initials are hand-tooled on front cover: "DHS".
Brown suede boards.
Very few descriptive captions.
Also includes clippings, ephemera and original art.
Identified photographers include Arnold Genthe, Moore & Clarke, William Dassonville, Knight Photo, Habenicht, .
Purchase from Leslie Potenzo; 2022.
Dora Hart Schweitzer (b. 1854 New York, d. 1950 San Francisco): wife of Jacob Schweitzer (of Schweitzer & Levy, butchers);
9 children; aunt of Corrine Schweitzer Koshland, mother of Daniel E. Koshland, Sr.
Dora Hart Schweitzer family photograph album, BANC PIC 2022.099, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 90 photographs in 1 album : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 32 x 38 cm
Language:
English