Accession Number

2007-6-33

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

9 photographs : b&w and col. (jpg)

1 document (jpg)

Date

[191-]-1980

Scope and Content

This accession consists of nine electronic copies of original photographs documenting the Nash family of St. Catharines, Ontario. Included are studio portraits and snapshots, taken in St. Catharines and Port Dalhousie. Also included is one electronic copy of a typwritten remembrances of Buncie Nashman written by Harold Nash and Rhonda Applebaum.

The photographs are as follows:

1. Rose Nash and Tzeine (sister) – two young women in photo, possibly before marriage to Jack.

2. Clara Cohen with baking at cottage at Port Dalhousie (not Rose as suspected) perhaps 1940s.

3. Jack and Rose Nash

4. Nash children, ca. 1930. Top, left to right: Molly, Maurice. Bottom, left to right: Dorothy, Ruth.

5. Nash family, 21 May 1929.

6. Maurice Nash in uniform (air force) with cousin, Henry Wexler, in US Army early 1940s.

7. Maurice Nash in uniform (air force) with cousin, Henry Wexler, in US Army, and unidentified woman, early 1940s.

8. Nash women at Harold’s 50th birthday party, 1980.

9. Harold and Eleanor in Port Dalhousie with cousins, ca. 1935.

Custodial History

The original photographs are in the possession of the donor. The OJA was granted permission to scan the photos in June 2007, as part of the Ontario Small Jewish Communities initiative. These copies were then donated to the Archives on 2007-06-05.

Use Conditions

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Subjects

Families

Name Access

Nash family

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

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Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2008-8-26

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

8 photographs : b&w and col. ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller

Date

[ca. 1920]-1994

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs pertaining to the Salit family and the Jewish community of Niagara Falls, Ontario. There is a newspaper clipping, an advertisement for Myer Salit Limited and a fiftieth-anniversary commemorative book for Congregation B'Nai Israel, St Catharines, Ontario (1975).

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.

Subjects

Communities

Families

Synagogues

Places

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2009-8-9

Material Format

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

48 photographs : b&w and col. (1 jpg) ; 21x 25 cm or smaller

Date

[ca. 1910]-[ca. 1980]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of family snapshots and portraits of members of the Zet family of St. Catharines. They include images of the donor's grandmother, Sadie (Hyatt) Zet, and grandfather Morris Zet, their friends, children and grandchildren. Among the events documented are the wedding of Bernice Zet to Albert Shecter in 1946 at the Congregation B'nai Israel, officiated by Rabbi Herschel Shapiro (who officiated weddings from 1931-1956), and summer scenes at Crystal Beach including Bernice Zet, Freda Caplan, Claire Zet and Deborah Caplan. There are several photographs of a group of high school girls, including Anne Granek, Minnie Lefstein, Ann Caplan, Ethel Friedman, Sylvia and Frieda Greenberg, Rae Rosenberg, and Eve Luntz. There is also an image of twenty little girls dressed in white holding British flags on the occasion of the opening of the shul in 1925, and one of Celia Taube with her children. As well, there are pictures of "the gang" of couples at social occasions in the 1950s. Persons pictured include Bayla Katzman, Joel Zeldon, Anne Granek, Abe Herzog, Margaret Zeldon, Jenny Katzman, Joe Katzmean, Gert Granek, Bea Magder, Dave Kates, Sybil Cowitz, Elsie Kates, Chippie (Helen) Feldman, [unknown man], Syd Magder, Dolly Cooperman, Eleanor Lambert, Sarah (Sookie) Slepkov, and Sheila Newman.

Finally, there is a ca. 1908 portrait of Berel and Nachama Kaplan, great-aunt and uncle of the donor.

Administrative History

Morris Zet (Zatulove) immigrated to Toronto in 1913 at age 18. In Romania his family enjoyed prosperity as dairy farmers, but after being conscripted into the Russian army, he left, walking from Russia to Austria. After a year in Toronto, Morris moved to St. Catharines, where he boarded with the Adelsteins. There, he made a living peddling to the many workers building the Welland Canal. In 1917, Morris married Sadie Hyatt (her brother changed the family name to Goldberg in Canada), who had come to Toronto in 1914. Morris opened a men’s wear store on St. Paul’s Street in St Catharines called Zet’s Clothing. Ten years later in 1929, he closed this store and opened Zet’s Men’s Wear in nearby Thorald, though the family continued to live in St Catharines. In 1935, Sadie opened Zet’s Ladies Wear across the street in Thorald. Morris and Sadie Zet had 3 daughters whom they raised in St Catharines: Anne, Clare and Bernice. Anne is the donor's mother. She married Kelley Granek in St. Catharines in 1939. Clare married Sam Kranitz in 1940; Bernice married Albert Schecter of Toronto, also at the St. Catharines shul, in 1946.

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.

Descriptive Notes

Physical Desription note: two of the photographs are colour copies.

Subjects

Communities

Families

Name Access

Zet, Morris

Zet, Sadie

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Item

Item

418

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of the Jewish community on parade in St. Catharines, in celebration of the Balfour Declaration. The photo depicts a group of children in white dresses marching down the street alongside several men and women.

Notes

Credit photographer Franklin Caplan when used.

Name Access

Balfour Declaration

Subjects

Parades

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Accession Number

Acquired 6 Feb. 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

419

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of the Jewish community on parade in St. Catharines, in celebration of the Balfour Declaration. The photo depicts a marching band and a group of men carrying a banner thanking Great Britain.

Notes

Credit photographer Franklin Caplan when used.

Name Access

Balfour Declaration

Subjects

Parades

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Accession Number

Acquired 6 Feb. 1975

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of the Jewish community on parade in St. Catharines, in celebration of the Balfour Declaration. The photo depicts a decorated car leading the parade down the street.

Notes

Credit photographer Franklin Caplan when used.

Name Access

Balfour Declaration

Subjects

Parades

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Accession Number

Acquired 6 Feb. 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

417

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of the Jewish community on parade in St. Catharines, in celebration of the Balfour Declaration. The photo depicts a group of young girls dressed in white, marching down the street alongside several men and women.

Notes

Credit photographer Franklin Caplan when used.

Name Access

Balfour Declaration

Subjects

Parades

Access Restriction

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.

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Accession Number

Acquired 6 Feb. 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

756

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of S. Halperin of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2013-6-5

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (tiff)

Date

1920-1926

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs of Rae Saul and her relatives outside the Saul family homes on Elizabeth or Venaly Street and Nassau Street. Identified are Millie Aaron, Anna Saul, and Sam Saul.

Administrative History

Joseph and Anna Saul came to Canada from Romania in the early 1900s. They had six children together: Sam (b. 1908), Rachel (Rae, b. 1910), Ida, Jeanette, Bonnie, and Dorothy. Joseph abandoned the family around 1923 and travelled to California to become an actor. Although his family never heard from him again, they later recognized him in movies under the name Maurice Samuels. Anna was deaf and mute and worked as a seamstress, making ladies clothing out of her own home. Rae obtained work in a hat factory when she was 13 years old and continued in this trade throughout the remainder of her life. Around 1950 she opened her own hat store at Eglinton and Dufferin called Rae's Hats. She briefly lived above the store with her husband, Sam Silverman.

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.

Subjects

Families

Name Access

Aaron, Millie

Saul, Anna

Saul, Sam

Silverman, Rae

Places

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

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1441

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1909 and 1911]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of an unidentified man holding a child in front of store in St. John's Ward, Toronto.

Subjects

Small business

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

St. John's Ward (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-7-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman buying a chicken in the Ward. The store in the background is that of S. Zlotkin, a grocery and poultry shop possibly located at 98 Elizabeth St.

Notes

Original is a glass slide with a black tape border.

Title taken from label on the slide.

Name Access

Zlotkin, S.

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

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1312

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1913

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Wolfish family of Toronto standing in front of their store on Elizabeth Street.

Name Access

Wolfish family

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3036

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1925]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Name Access

Rosenblatt, Julius

Subjects

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-8-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

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1542

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1925]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Gary's Groceries (Toronto, Ont.)

Gary, Joseph

Subjects

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-11-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

20 Oct. 1924

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Evelyn Thuna at four months of age in St. Catharines, Ontario on 20 October 1924. She is being held by a woman, possibly an M. Dorfman, singer at Beth Tzedec.

Notes

Mounted in card frame

Inscribed on inside of card frame: "With Best Love To Ann - Evelyn at 4 months Oct. 20, 1924"

Name Access

Dorman, M.

Thuna, Evelyn

Subjects

Infants

Repro Restriction

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.

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions