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Sophie and Theodore Lilienthal letters and photographs, 1870-1910.
BANC MSS 2010/732 box 1; BANC MSS 2010/732 oversize box 1; BANC MSS 2010/732 oversize box 2; BANC MSS 2010/732
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Title:
Sophie and Theodore Lilienthal letters and photographs, 1870-1910Creator/Contributor:
Lilienthal, Sophie Gerstle, 1859-1934, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Lilienthal, Theodore Max, 1847-1891, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 194 and 195.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1967.019.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection consists of two hundred and fifty-two letters exchanged between Theodore Lilienthal and Sophie Gerstle Lilienthal
between 1877 and 1889 as well as eight letters exchanged between Theodore and other members of his family and his personal
friends. Theodore's letters to Sophie illuminate his deep love and devotion to her and his beliefs that a woman's place in
society and within her own marriage should be determined by her husband and that a wife should practice frugality and order.
Among the letters is also a menu from Theodore and Sophie's wedding, a bill from San Francisco's Palace Hotel, many poems
that Theodore wrote or gave to Sophie, and one poem Theodore sent to his father, Rabbi Max Lilienthal, in 1880, on the occasion
of Max's twenty-fifth jubilee as rabbi of Cincinnati's Congregation Bene Israel. The collection also includes the pages of
two photo albums. These albums contain photographs (circa 1870-1910) of members of many prominent Bay Area Jewish families.
Surnames documented in the albums include the following: Arnold, Bibo, Bissinger, Bransten, Braverman, Bucki, Cauffman, Cohn,
Dinkelspiel, Ehrman, Esberg, Falk, Fecheimer, Felsenthal, Feinstock, Fleishhacker, Frank, Frankel, Gerstle, Gerstley, Glassman,
Glazier, Greenbaum, Greenebaum, Greenewald, Guggenheim, Guggenhime, Haas, Harmuth, Hecht, Heilbronner, Heller, Herscheimer,
Hillyer, Hirsch, Jacobi, Kauffman, Koch, Koester, Kohl, Lebenbaum, Lehmeier, Levison, Lilienthal, Livingston, Mack, Meyer,
Mooser, Niebaum, Ottenheimer, Reese, Regensburger, Rosen, Seligman, Seligsburg, Sloss, Stepbacher, Sternau, Strauss, Sussman,
Tanhauser, Walter, Wasserman, Weil, Weinstock, Wiel, Wormser, Wornum, Wunsch, and Zinn. The photographs in these albums include
portraits of individual adults and children as well as group portraits take indoors and outdoors. Among these are portraits
of the families of Lewis Gerstle and Louis Sloss.
Date:
1870 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-ohLilienthal, Sophie Gerstle -- 1859-1934 -- Archives
Lilienthal, Theodore Max -- 1847-1891 -- Archives
Lilienthal, M. E. (Max E.) -- 1815-1882
Rosenthal, Toby Edward -- approximately 1848-1917 -- Photographs
Bransten family
Gerstle family
Mack family
Walter family
Bransten family
Gerstle family
Lilienthal, M. E. (Max E.) -- 1815-1882
Mack family
Rosenthal, Toby Edward -- approximately 1848-1917
Walter family
Jews -- California -- San Francisco
Jewish families -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Jewish women -- California -- San Francisco
Marriage -- California -- San Francisco
Women in Judaism -- California -- San Francisco
Jewish families
Jewish women
Jews
Manners and customs
Marriage
Women in Judaism
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
California -- San Francisco
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 194 and 195.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1967.019.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Sophie and Theodore Lilienthal letters and photographs, BANC MSS 2010/732, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Sophie Gerstle Lilienthal was the daughter of Lewis (Lob) Gerstle and Hannah (Johannah) Greenebaum of San Francisco. On 27
Aug. 1879, she married Theodore Max Lilienthal. Lilienthal was the director of Lilienthal Brothers' hops and grain of New
York.
Materials in English.
Type:
Love letters.Correspondence-California-San Francisco.
Family papers-California-San Francisco.
Menus.
Photographs-California-San Francisco.
Poems-California-San Francisco.
Photographs.
Physical Description:
1.2 (1 2
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585216
BANC MSS 2010/732 box 1
BANC MSS 2010/732 oversize box 1
BANC MSS 2010/732 oversize box 2
BANC MSS 2010/732
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.