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Rosenberg family papers, 1860-1977.
BANC MSS 2010/602 oversize folder 1; BANC MSS 2010/602 carton 1; BANC MSS 2010/602 carton 2; BANC MSS 2010/602 oversize
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Rosenberg family papers, 1860-1977Creator/Contributor:
Rosenberg, Abraham, 1865-1929Creator/Contributor:
Rosenberg, Alice Greenbaum, 1876-1943Creator/Contributor:
Berman, Louise Bransten.Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 240.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1971.010.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection consists of family correspondence, providing information about the family's history, involvement with the arts,
and friendships, featuring letters from Abraham Rosenberg, Alice Greenbaum Rosenberg, Louise Rosenberg, Ernest Bloch, Isaac
Stern, Oscar Weil, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Imogen Cunningham, and other well-known personalities. A letter from Sarah
Ackerman to Louis Greenbaum from before their marriage describes San Francisco after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
The bulk of the correspondence is between husband and wife Abraham and Alice Rosenberg and between Louise Rosenberg and her
parents during her years attending Vassar College (1926-1929). There is also Louise (Rosenberg) Bransten Berman's correspondence
from after her father's death regarding memorial scholarships and donations, including exchanges with Albert Elkus at the
University of California, Berkeley about the Oscar Wiel Fund. The collection also contains photographs; family papers; a wedding
album and invitations; birth notices and obituaries; school albums; scrapbooks; a history of the family business; programs
for the theater, concerts, and balls; genealogical information for the Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Ackerman, and Greenbaum families;
and a 1884 issue of the trade journal Shoe and Leather Reporter. Particularly notable among the photographs in the collection
are the 1911 photographs of Jenny Lind, a town in Calaveras County, California; photographs of Yosemite, circa 1919; photographs
from the Santa Barbara film set of Omar the Tent Maker (1922); photographs of the aftermath of the 1925 earthquake in Santa
Barbara, California; photographs of family friends, including Oscar Weil, Charles Erskine Scott Wood; and photographs of Som,
the Rosenberg's long-time family cook. Travel materials pertain to two European trips and a 1906 trip to Japan that coincided
with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Date:
1860 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-us-caRosenberg family -- Archives
Bloch, Ernest -- 1880-1959 -- Correspondence
Cunningham, Imogen -- 1883-1976 -- Correspondence
Greenbaum, Louis
Greenbaum, Sarah Ackerman
Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination
Stern, Isaac -- 1920-2001 -- Correspondence
Weil, Oscar -- 1840-1921 -- Correspondence
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott -- 1852-1944 -- Correspondence
Ackerman family
Greenbaum family
Oppenheim family
Performing arts -- United States
Jews -- California
Earthquakes -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Photographs
California -- Genealogy
Jenny Lind (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 240.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1971.010.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Rosenberg family papers, BANC MSS 2010/602, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Objects, including a 19th-century trunk, a folding fan, beaded fringe, and a hair comb, transferred to the museum holdings
of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life for separate cataloging and handling.
Ambrotypes transferred to the Pictorial Division of the Bancroft Library.
Abraham Rosenberg, who was born in Jenny Lind, Calif., was in the shoe business before he and his brothers, Adolph and Max,
started a successful dried fruit and nuts export business called Rosenberg Bros. and Co in the early 1890s. He married Alice
Greenbaum, born to Louis and Sarah Ackerman Greenbaum in San Francisco, Calif. They had one daughter, Louise, who later married
Richard Bransten, of the MJB coffee family, and Lionel Berman. Abraham Rosenberg was an active philanthropist, contributing
especially to the San Francisco Symphony, and he and his wife befriended a number of Bay Area artists and performers, including
Ernest Bloch, Isaac Stern, Oscar Weil, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and Imogen Cunningham. Abraham Rosenberg also established
the Rosenberg Foundation to help California children. Louise Bransten Berman, active in leftist causes, was indicted for
contempt of Congress in the late 1940s for refusing to divulge to the House Un-American Activities Committee whether or not
she had contributed money to the Communist party.
Materials in English.
Type:
Business records-California-San Francisco.Correspondence-California-San Francisco.
Family papers-California-San Francisco.
Genealogies-California-San Francisco.
Obituaries-California-San Francisco.
Programs-California-San Francisco.
Scrapbooks-California-San Francisco.
Physical Description:
2 cartons, 1 oversize box, and 1 oversize folder (2.90 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585267
BANC MSS 2010/602 oversize folder 1
BANC MSS 2010/602 carton 1
BANC MSS 2010/602 carton 2
BANC MSS 2010/602 oversize box 1
BANC MSS 2010/602
BANC MSS 2010/602
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.