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Fromer, Seymour [Photographs from the Seymour Fromer papers].
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Title:
[Photographs from the Seymour Fromer papers]Creator/Contributor:
Fromer, Seymour, 1922-2009, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
Includes many early 20th-century commercial postcard views of Bethlehem, Jerusalem and other regions of the Holy Land, as
well as portraits of jews and Jewish types from Palestine. Also includes commercial stereograph views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem,
Tiberias, Mt. Sinai, Mt. Carmel and other locations in the Holy Land. Other stereograph views include Temple Emmanuel in San
Francisco, and Yosemite Valley (all taken by Carleton Watkins). Also Includes two carte de visite portraits of unidentified
women, two group portraits of San Francisco school pupils from the 1890s, a studio portrait of Mr. L.A. Ross, a photograph
of Temple Sinai in Oakland, Calif., and a snapshot of a group of sightseers posing on a Mt. Tamalpais gravity car.
Date:
1875 (issued)Subject:
a-is---Jews -- Palestine -- Photographs
Jews
Palestine -- Photographs
Jerusalem -- Photographs
Bethlehem -- Photographs
Middle East -- Jerusalem
Middle East -- Palestine
West Bank -- Bethlehem
Fromer, Seymour -- 1922-2009 -- Archives
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Seymour Fromer.
Identified photographers include Carleton E. Watkins (stereographs from his Watkins' Pacific Coast and Pacific Coast Views
series), Boston Railroad Photo Car (Sacramento), H. Weitz & Co. (San Francisco), Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco), Wright's
Art and Portrait Gallery (San Jose), Strohmeyer & Wyman (New York), B.W. Kilburn (Littleton, N.H.), P. Bercheim (Jerusalem),
Keystone View Company, Bonfils,
Transferred from the Seymour Fromer papers (BANC MSS 2010/771).
Seymour Fromer served as the first executive director of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, which he co-founded with his wife, Rebecca,
in 1962. In addition to his work at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, he also served as the director of the Jewish Education Council
of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and was involved with various other Jewish organizations.
Photographs from the Seymour Fromer papers, BANC PIC 2010.102, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPostcard.
Portrait.
portraits.
Archives.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Postcards.
Albumen prints.
Stereographs.
Cartes de visite.
Postcards.
Portraits.
Cartes postales.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
46 photographs in 2 folders and 12 sleeves : chiefly albumen prints, many mounted ; sheets 17 x 25 cm or smaller
Language:
English