Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1918]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 28 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a rugby team that might have been the Jarvis Collegiate team or a community league in Toronto. Harry Levine is the second young man from the right.

Name Access

Jarvis Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ont.)

Levine, Harry

Subjects

Sports teams

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

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Nov. 1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Mortimer Thuna at sixteen months of age. The photograph was taken in Montreal in November 1929.

Notes

Photographer: Thornton Johnston

Mounted on card frame

For another portrait from this sitting, see photo #187

Name Access

Thuna, Mortimer

Subjects

Infants

Portraits

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

Montréal (Québec)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

16 Oct. 1938

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph taken at Alvin Benjamin (Poochie) Thuna's fourth birthday party on October 16th, 1938. Alvin is seated on a chair in the center. His brother, Mortimer, is likely the boy standing behind Alvin, wearing a shirt and tie. There are twenty-four children in the picture and the photograph is titled "Poochie and His Friends".

Name Access

Thuna, Alvin Benjamin "Poochie"

Thuna, Mortimer

Subjects

Birthdays

Children

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.

Physical Condition

The photograph has been damaged and part of the image is obscured

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 19 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Mortimer Thuna with other children playing outside.

Name Access

Thuna, Mortimer

Subjects

Children

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.

Physical Condition

Damaged: photograph is torn in half and is also stained and discoloured

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1942

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Mortimer and Alvin Thuna wearing their scout uniforms taken at a studio in Montreal in 1942. Mortimer is wearing a Seascout uniform while Alvin is wearing a Boyscout uniform.

Notes

Photographer: Art Studio of Montreal, 23 St. Catherine W.

Mounted in card frame

Inscription on card frame: "To Grandma with love Morty and Alvin"

Name Access

Thuna, Alvin

Thuna, Mortimer

Subjects

Scouts (Youth organization members)

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

Montréal (Québec)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jul. 1941

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Thuna family taken for Mortimer Thuna's bar mitzvah. Included are Jack and Anne Thuna with their sons Mortimer and Alvin. The portrait was taken on 14 July 1941 by the Society Studio in Montreal.

Notes

Photographer: Society Studio, Montreal

Mounted in card frame

Inscription on frame, bottom righthand corner: "The Thuna's Bar Mitzvah July 14, 1941"

Name Access

Thuna, Anne

Thuna, Jack

Thuna, Mortimer

Subjects

Bar mitzvah

Portraits

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

Montréal (Québec)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Thuna family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

7

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jul. 1941

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of family and guests of Mortimer Thuna's bar mitzvah, which was held at the Tic-Tac Club in Montreal on 14 July 1941. Mortimer is seated in the center, with his father Jack on his right and his mother Anne on his left. Sarah Levine is in the front row, seventh from the left. Abe Levine is the second from the left, his daughter is next to him, and his wife next to her.

Notes

Photographer: Society Studio, Montreal

Name Access

Levine, Abe

Levine, Sarah

Thuna, Jack

Thuna, Mortimer

Subjects

Bar mitzvah

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

Montréal (Québec)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Cass family series

Level

Series

Fonds

25

Series

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1894-[192-]

Physical Description

15 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 15 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Abraham Cass (1840-1897) married Rachel Rebecca Cass (née [Cowart?]) (1837-1903). They were both born in Russia and immigrated to Canada in 1892 to join their eldest children who had already immigrated to Ontario. The children of Abraham and Rachel Rebecca Cass were: daughters: Fayge (m.Sax) (1861-1942), Hannah (m.Segel) (1863-1930), Martha (m.Soskin) (1866-1946), Dora (m.Levy) (b.1871?), Sarah (m.Levine) (1876-1978), and Annie (m.Smith) (1880- 1952); and, sons: David M. Cass (1869-1959), Bill Cass (b.1874?), and Phillip Cass.

Their son David Mitchell Cass had immigrated to Canada earlier than his parents, in 1889. His wife, Hannah (née Kleiman) (1870-1935), immigrated to Canada in 1890, and they were married in 1894. David Cass worked for Pregger's Grocery Dealer as a salesman and gave Moses Levine work-related advice in this area. David and Hannah lived, in Waubaushene and Tey Township, in Simcoe County, where they were neighbours of the Soskins and where most of their children were born. By 1911, however, they had moved back to Toronto. They had eleven children: Ethel I. (m.Gold) (1894-[1998?]), Infant Cass (unnamed, died at 7 weeks, 1895), "Abe" Abraham B. (1897-1987), Leah G. (m.Harser) (1899-1975), Sarah "Sec" Marie (m.Rogers) (1901-1932), Ely "Hilly" (b.1902), "Reuben" Garfield P. (1904-1991), Dorothy (m.Sandler) (b.1906), Anne (m.Solway) (1907-1994), Rita (m.Appleby), and Libby (m.Balick).

As a new immigrant to Canada, having emigrated from Russia in 1896, Louis Smith (1873-1945) was registered as a tailor in the 1901 federal census. He later worked as a contractor in Toronto. He was married to Annie Cass, Sarah Levine's sister, in 1901 and they lived together at 5 Edward Street, along with Rachel Rebecca Cass, with whom they cohabitated following the death of Abraham Cass.

David and Hannah's son, Abraham Cass, was married to Carrie (née Waldman) in 1922. Garfield married Dorothy (née Simon) and had two children, Donna and Danny. Anne Solway was married to a prominent Toronto violinist and music teacher, Maurice Solway (1906-2001), and they had one son, Stephen.

Scope and Content

Series consists of photographs of members of the Cass family.

Name Access

Cass family

Source

Archival Descriptions