Title:

[Wiel, Davis, and Metzger family photographs and memorabilia.]

Creator/Contributor:

Wiel (Family, San Francisco, Calif.), creator, creator.

Family portraits, snapshot photographs, photograph albums, and some memorabilia documenting the lives of various branches of a San Francisco Jewish family. The collection centers around the families of Alvin Davis (1888-1967) and his wife Vera Metzger Davis (1893-1988), and that of Alfred Louis Wiel (1875-1926) and his wife Fannie Strauss Kahn (1884-1965). Alvin Davis was a son of Max Davis, co-founder of San Francisco's Davis-Schonwasser department store, and was himself a proprietor. Alvin's wife Vera was a daughter of Leo Metzger and Rebecca Lachman, Leo at some time being in the firm founded by his father-in-law, S. Lachman and Co., prominent in the early California wine industry. Henry Lachman, son of Samuel Lachman, purchased the Palmdale estate, in modern Fremont, Calif. (formerly on the lands of Mission San Jose.) At his death in 1915 Palmdale became the property of his relations Alvin and Vera Davis (his niece and her husband) and Sam Metzger (a nephew), who sold it in 1927. The Palmdale estate is pictured in numerous family snapshots and a snapshot album (ALB v.11-12). Also of special note are cartes de visite portraits of Samuel Lachman and family dating from the 1860s, an early 20th century copy of an 1884 photograph of the Lachman wine warehouse in San Francisco, and various descendants of Lachman through the early 20th century (all carton 1). Also of note are an exterior and interior view of the 19th century San Francisco Davis-Schonwasser store (carton 1), an exterior view of the Davis-Schonwasser store on Sutter Street in the 20th century (carton 1), portraits of Davis and Metzger relations from the 1890s onwards (carton 1), including portraits of early aviator Sam Metzger (one while piloting an biplane.) In addition to Wiel, Kahn, Davis, Metzger, and Lachman, other related surnames present include: Strauss, Guenther, Abenheim, Baxter, Beck, Chadwick, Whitfield, Meyer, Newbauer, and Hecht. The collection includes a number of early 20th century portraits in the pictorialist style, including several by San Francisco woman photographers Ethel Grant Scott (Davis family files; Elsa and Vera Metzger files, in carton 1), Ida Krajewski (Fannie Kahn file, carton 1), and Bianca Conti (Friends and family file, carton 1) and by Arnold Genthe (Fannie Kahn file, carton 1), Johan Hagemeyer (Elsa Metzger, AX folder 5), and E. Martin Webb (Vera Metzger file, carton 1.) 2022 additions (all in PIC box 4 except for negatives, which are in NEG carton 1) include portraits and snapshots pertaining to Jane Davis Wiel, Marjorie Davis, Aaron Beck, Caronline Cohen, Alan Wiel, Alfred Wiel, Fannie Kahn Wiel, Stephen Wiel and Alvin Davis; a family tree chart; a Temple Emmanu-el confirmation services program; a 1911 letter from Elsa and Eli Wiel to Alfred and Fannie Wiel; a Buckingham & Hecht shoe factory postcard; miscellaneous negatives; and two photograph albums depicting the exterior grounds of the Palmdale estate in 1909.

Date:

1865 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Jewish families -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs

Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs

Familles juives -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies

Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Photographies

Families

Jewish families

Jews

California -- San Francisco

California -- San Francisco Bay Area

Davis-Schonwasser Co. -- Photographs

S. Lachman & Co. -- Photographs

San Francisco, Calif.) -- Davis (Family -- Photographs

San Francisco, Calif.) -- Lachman (Family -- Photographs

San Francisco, Calif.) -- Metzger (Family -- Photographs

San Francisco, Calif.) -- Wiel (Family -- Photographs

Lachman, Samuel -- 1824-1892 -- Family -- Portraits

Title devised by cataloger.

Collected by the Wiel family.

NEG carton 1 (slides and negatives): UNARRANGED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.

List of contents created by donor Stephen Wiel is available in the library.

Gift ; Of Stephen Wiel ; 2017.

Additions: Gift ; Of Stephen Wiel ; 2022.

Received with the Wiel-Davis-Metzger family papers (BANC MSS 2017/197).

1 hard drive and 1 USB drive of digitized family photographs and home movies transferred to the Digital Collections Unit.

Family members were proprietors of Davis-Schonwasser department store in San Francisco, principals in S. Lachman & Co. wine merchants, owners of the Baker Hamilton warehouse on Brannan Street, and owners of the Palmdale estate in what is now Fremont, California.

Wiel, Davis, and Metzger family photographs and memorabilia, BANC PIC 2017.059, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

Photographs.

Portraits.

Portraits.

Photograph albums.

photoprint

1 carton and 4 boxes (chiefly photographic prints), 1 carton (negatives and slides), 16 volumes (photograph albums), 6 oversize folders (photographic prints), and 1 oversize box (objects)

English

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/unprocessed-collections-form

Origin:

California

NEG carton 1 (slides and negatives): UNARRANGED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.