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Gilbert family
- Accession Number
- 2008-6-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-6-12
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 31 photographs (tiff)
- Date
- [1923?]-1935
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of thirty-one scanned family photographs of the Gilbert family of Toronto from the 1920s and 1930s. Four of the images scanned were modern reprints; two are composites, one of Albert and one of Jack. Some of the originals were produced as postcards to be sent to family members.
- Administrative History
- Nachman "Nathan" Gittelmacher was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1898, the son of Shloima and Mattie Gittelmacher. Suffering terribly during the pogroms of 1918 and 1920, he fled from place to place and then immigrated to Canada in 1921. Trained as a photographer in Europe, he opened his own photography studio in Toronto in 1922, called Elite Studios. First located at 513 Queen Street West, he soon moved to 615 Queen Street West. Nathan serviced a largely Jewish clientele, photographing weddings, bar mitzvahs, as well as Jewish community events.
- Nathan was married to Nina Sokoloff and they had three sons and a daughter: Louis (Lou), Albert (Al), Jack, and Ruth.
- During the early 1940s, the family legally changed their name from Gittelmacher to Gilbert and subsequently altered the name of the business to Gilbert Studios. When Nathan retired, Al, who had been working there since a young age, took over the business and under his management it thrived. In order to accommodate his growing clientele, he moved the studio to Eglinton Avenue and later to 170 Davenport Road, where it is situated today.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Source
- Archival Accessions