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Glazier family papers, 1852-1957.
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Glazier family papers, 1852-1957Creator/Contributor:
Glazier family., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 106.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1981.004.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection consists of Glazier family genealogy; family history materials, including materials on the history of J. Barth
and Co.; family documents, including naturalization papers, Isaac and Simon Glaziers' birth certificates from 1829 and 1831,
and Simon Glazier's Masonic certificate from the Yuba Lodge; documents relating to the Glaziers' involvement in the San Francisco
Jewish community, including a certificate from the First Hebrew Benevolent Society granting Simon Glazier lifetime membership
(1877), seat deeds for Temple Emanu-El (1866 and 1878), receipts from The First Hebrew Benevolent Society (1877), Temple Emanu-El
(1867), and the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum (1871), and mortgage documents for the sale of land by Aaron Fleishhacker to
The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum (1879); general correspondence (1879-1910); correspondence with Adolph and Ida Frank (1919-1939),
Rudolf Allner (1938-1950), Oscar Benesch (1939-1959), Ignaz and Regina Abeles (1930s), and Seymour and Rose Marcuse (1916-1930);
family wills and estate and trust documents; correspondence and materials (mostly in German) on the Isaac and Bertha Glazier
Stiffung (foundation); materials on the estate of M.A. Jacobi; business documents from Isaac Glazier & Co. and Glazier and
Seligsberg (1855-1904); documents relating to the Glazier mining interests (1860s); deeds and real estate papers (1867-1885);
property tax records (1875-1904); pages from a memorial book for Simon Glazier from Mount Zion Hospital (1908); and photographs,
including family portraits, photographs of the family's Elmira Ranch in Solano, California, a photograph of Henry S. Glazier
(with male friends) at Harvard University in 1889, a photograph of an Alaskan tour group on Muir Glacier (1897), a photograph
of the Glazier home in Marysville, California (411 Fourth Street), and a photograph of the home of Lillie and Albert Seligman
in Helena, Montana showing the Seligman's on horseback, Isaac Glazier on the porch, and Clara and Bella Glazier in a carriage
(1890). The collection also includes a photograph album with family portraits (circa 1870-1890).
Date:
1852 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJews -- California -- San Francisco
Jewish businesspeople -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Stockbrokers -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Deeds -- California
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco
Gens d'affaires juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Actes formalistes -- Californie
Deeds
Jewish businesspeople
Jews
Stockbrokers
Marysville (Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works
Solano County (Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works
Helena (Mont.) -- History -- Pictorial works
Muir Glacier (Alaska) -- Pictorial works
Alaska -- Muir Glacier
California
California -- Marysville
California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
California -- Solano County
Montana -- Helena
First Hebrew Benevolent Society (San Francisco, Calif.)
Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.)
Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum (San Francisco, Calif.)
J. Barth and Company.
I. Glazier and Co.
Glazier and Seligsberg.
First Hebrew Benevolent Society (San Francisco, Calif.)
Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.)
Glazer family -- Archives
Glazier, Simon -- 1831-1908
Glazier, Isaac -- 1829-1906
Glazier, Henry S -- 1868-1939 -- Pictorial works
Glazer family
Glazier, Henry S -- 1868-1939
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 106.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1981.004.
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Curator
of Collections, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, using the Online Research Request form.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Portrait of Marco Hellman (Isaias W. Hellman, Jr.) done by Timothy Cole (1922) and portraits of Simon and Clara Glazier by
the Nahl Brothers (1869) transferred to the museum holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life for separate handling
and cataloging.
Brothers Isaac and Simon Glazier, who were both born in Austria, immigrated to the United States and settled in Marysville,
California (1851). There, they opened the Old Corner Cigar Store, a business made profitable by supplying tobacco to miners.
Simon married Clara May (1859) and, soon after, Isaac married Bertha Kohn. In 1862, the Glaziers relocated to San Francisco,
where they joined William Seligsberg in a partnership on the San Francisco Stock Exchange. In 1874, the firm was renamed I.
Glazier and Company. Shortly thereafter, the Glaziers sent for Phillip and Jacob Barth, nephews of theirs living in Europe.
The firm was then renamed J. Barth and Company, and it developed into one of the most successful brokerage houses on the West
Coast. Isaac and Bertha Glazier moved to New York and Isaac and Simon Glazier died in 1906 and 1908. Henry S. Glazier, Isaac's
nephew, and Henry's son Henry S. Glazier, Jr. assumed responsibility for the family's Elmira Ranch in Solano County. The ranch,
proving unprofitable, was sold in 1935. Isaac and Bertha Glazier retained close contact with their European relatives and
endeavored through bequests and trusts to assist their family. For the first thirty years of the twentieth century, the American
Glaziers sent small amounts of money to relatives in Germany and Austria as they exchanged information about family affairs,
deaths, and births. As the Nazi threat grew more ominous, the European Glaziers wrote asking for assistance to come to the
United States. Henry Glazier attempted to provide assistance, but the Glazier relatives still had difficulty leaving Europe.
Henry Glazier and his brother William received news of which family members perished in the Holocaust accompanied by requests
for food, clothing, and medical supplies from those who had survived.
Preferred citation: Glazier family papers, BANC MSS 2010/698, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Photographfamily papers.
photographs.
Photographs
Archives
History
Pictorial works
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
1 carton, 1 box, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder (1.8 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://magnes.org/scholars/research-information/research-request-form
http://magnesalm.org/notebook_fext.asp?site=magnes&book=156760
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Curator
of Collections, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, using the Online Research Request form.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.