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Julius Behrend family papers and photographs, 1884-2006.
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Julius Behrend family papers and photographs, 1884-2006Creator/Contributor:
Behrend, Julius Francis, 1863-1954, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 2006.012.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeCreator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection contains documents, scrapbooks, photographs, and photo albums relating to the family of Julius Behrend and
his wife Carrie Reese Behrend. Documents consist primarily of a small number of vital records and narrative family histories
written by Constance Mastores (Julius Behrend's granddaughter) entitled "In My Grandfather's Time" (2005) and "Separations"
(2006). In addition, the collection includes a letter written to Constance Mastores by Sylvia Porter Fox (23 Jan. 1985), and
an affidavit testifying to a suitor's great obsession for Julius Behrend's daughter, Frances (23 Dec. 1926). Most of the collection
consists of loose photographs, photo albums and scrapbooks. The loose photographs are mainly portraits of various family members
from the 1870s through the 1920s. There are particularly fine photographs of a boarding house in Arkansas City, Kansas in
the mid-1880s and a photograph of Julius Behrend with his bicycle, circa 1890. There are three photo albums in the collection:
one consisting of Reese and Wilson family portraits and dating to circa 1870 (Wilson was Carrie Reese Behrend's mother's surname),
one documenting a family trip around the world in 1928 and 1929, and one family photo album from the 1930s and 1940s. Two
scrapbooks of clippings and a small amount of ephemera document the Reese family of Wichita, Kansas (1913-1932) and the life
of a young Frances Behrend in the 1920s.
Date:
1884 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJewish families -- California
Jews, German -- California -- San Francisco
Familles juives -- Californie
Juifs allemands -- Californie -- San Francisco
Jewish families
Jews, German
Arkansas City (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- San Francisco
Kansas -- Arkansas City
Behrend, Julius Francis -- 1863-1954 -- Archives
Burch, Frances Behrend -- 1907-2005
Behrend, Carrie Reese -- 1881-1972
Fox, Sylvia Porter -- Correspondence
Behrens family
Reese family
Wilson family
Behrend family
Mastores family
Behrens family
Reese family
Wilson family
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Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 2006.012.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Julius Francis Behrend (b. in Hamburg, Germany, 2 Aug. 1863; d. in San Francisco, June 1954) immigrated to New York in 1879
and moved to Arkansas City, Kansas in 1884, where he operated a clothing store. While in Kansas, Behrend became a Freemason
and joined the Order of the Eastern Star, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and the Grand Commandery (i.e., Knights
Templar), as well as the Knights of Pythias. On 3 Nov. 1884, he became an American citizen. In 1884, Behrend apparently met
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce on the Ponca reservation in what would become Oklahoma. According to family members, Julius
Behrend witnessed the removal of the last of the tribe from Indian Territory in the spring of 1885. In 1889, Behrend travelled
with the "boomers" to the Cherokee Outlet to take advantage of the opening of the Oklahoma Territory. He applied to the federal
government for a trading post outside of Tulsa. In 1895, Behrend relocated to Cincinnati and then to Chicago in 1897. In 1901,
Behrend returned to Kansas to marry Carrie Reese, who was the daughter of Marietta W. Wilson and John F. Reese. Julius and
Carrie left Kansas and relocated to San Francisco, where Julius was manager for the Fleischmann Company Distillery at 508
Front Street. Behrend continued to work in various capacities and at various locations for Fleischmann until 1922. When Julius
Behrend died in 1954, he left behind an estate worth more than $1.1 million. Carrie and Julius's daughter, Frances (b. in
San Francisco, 13 Aug. 1907; d. in Berkeley, 12 July 2005), was married, for a time, to Jonathan Rowell, Jr. They had three
children: Sharon, Constance, and Jonathan. Frances divorced Jonathan in 1942 and later married Arthur B. Burch.
Preferred citation: Julius Behrend family papers and photographs, BANC MSS 2010/617, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and
Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
PhotographPostcard.
photographs.
photograph albums.
postcards.
Genealogies.
scrapbooks.
affidavits.
Postcards
Photographs
Affidavits
Albums (Books)
Archives
Pictorial works
Personal correspondence
Albums (Books)
Affidavits.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Photographies.
Albums photographiques.
Cartes postales.
Albums personnalisés.
Déclarations sous serment.
Physical Description:
print
2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes (1.6 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2008574856
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.