Title:

Sophie and Theodore Lilienthal letters and photographs, 1870-1910

Creator/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 Life

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-oh

Lilienthal, 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

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.

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.

1.2 (1 2

English

2006585216

Origin:

California

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.