Attached are two 1907 articles about Deborah Boys Club, one describing its mission and the other focusing on the twin evils of smoking and lying (were those really the main concerns of the day?)

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Great photo! It seems to me that this might be a fencing club or fencing academy (or perhaps a sports academy more generally), given the prominence of foils and masks in the front row. Here are a coup

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 09:56 AM, <borosonfam@...> wrote: The main website for the Romanian National Archives is here, available both in Romanian and English. They have a lot of digitized reco

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Hi Myra and others, The Internet Archive is a fantastic way to find and view digital copies of library books (and LOTS of other materials). Go to http://archive.org, set up a free account, and then yo

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Hi Sharon, I've found one street map of Harlau published in 1926 (attached). Only the main streets are labeled, along with some notable buildings. If you compare it to the modern layout of the city in

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In case it is helpful, I'm attaching an article (in Polish) that briefly outlines the history of photography in Lomza. It mentions on p. 217 that the city's early 20th c. photo studios included two Je

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Update: There are a number of interesting video links about the “Chinese Schindler,” HO Feng-shan 何凤山 (surname=Ho, sometimes romanized as He). He was a Chinese Nationalist diplomat based in Europe who

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Hi Philip, What you see as Louth Tarbor is actually "Luth. Pastor," as the words "Official Station" refer not to a place but rather "...is taken and deemed to mean the office by virtue of which said p

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The David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University https://www.davidrumsey.com/ is a terrific source for high-resolution scans of historical maps of all periods in all languages. I did a quick sea

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Great photo! As others have noted, the top medal looks like an example of the WWI German Iron Cross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross (different versions were produced, and it is hard to see an

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Success! Here are the buildings at 8 and 10 Delancey Street in a photo taken in Dec. 1907, featuring the Guttman Coffee House and Delicatessen (see attached image, and detail). Perhaps this is your gr

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JG members might be interested in viewing a fine online exhibition of materials in the Harvard Yiddish Theater Collection that is currently freely available online at the following link: https://libra

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There are a number of sites that provide access to archives of German newspapers. Here's one that is very good: https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Historic_German_Newspapers_and_Journals_Online Note

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There's an interesting publication (in Polish), with some 1930s photos, "Footwear in the Collections of the Museum of Warsaw" at this link https://muzeumwarszawy.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Da%E2%95

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This site might be useful-- military emblems on gravestones http://gravestonesandmemorials.com/military-emblems.html The emblem on Julius' grave (minus the acorn and leaf debris that had fallen on the

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Likely related to the Congregation Mishna U’Gmoro at 3313 W Douglas Blvd in Chicago. You can find a photo and some details about its Rabbi Tzvi Shimon Album at these links https://kevarim.com/cemeteri

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Many thanks for these links, Martin. I have made a number of treks to the Waldheim Cemetery complex in search of relatives' graves, some successful, and some not. The Waldheim staff has been very help

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Jack Shiffman and many others in the International Brigade are listed and discussed in a number of reports of the Congressional Hearings of Un-American Activities (1938), Investigation of un-American

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Although they are not organized at all, you can find some 560 images of tombstones in the Lodz New Jewish cemetery in this Wikimedia collection Wikimedia Commons collection of Lodz cemetery photos The

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Although a town named "Rubacca" remains elusive, those of you researching locations in the Austro-Hungarian empire might find it useful to check this terrific resource: Josef Kendler’s Orts-und Verkeh

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