- Accession Number
- 1979-9-16
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1975
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual records relating to a "Teach-In on Israel" held at the university on 22 January 1975. There is also an announcement of a meeting of the Revolutionary Marxist Group at York.
- MG_RG
- MG2 P1d
- Subjects
- Education
- Children
- Politics and government
- Name Access
- Jewish Student Federation (York University)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2312
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2312
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1922
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print of Dr. David Siegel seated in the front passenger seat of a car.
- Name Access
- Siegel, Dr. David
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Dentists
- 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
- Cochrane (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1980-3-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 399
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 399
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Esther Love and Clara Love Smith seated on the front bumper of a car, in Fonthill, Ontario.
- Notes
- Acquired on 21 Jan. 1975.
- Name Access
- Love, Esther
- Smith, Clara Love
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- Fonthill (Pelham, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print of Hyman Rosen, Annie Rosen, Lily Finkelstein and Jenny Cohen of Kingston, Ontario. Hyman is holding a fiddle and Jenny is holding a mandolin. All four are pictured in front of a car and identified from left to right. The young boy seated on the front fender is unidentified.
- Notes
- Grandchildren of Hyman and Annie Rosen confirmed that Jenny Cohen was Hyman Rosen's sister and Lily Finkelstein was Annie Rosen's sister. In addition, Hyman Rosen was the longest serving President of Beth Israel Congregation. Jenny Cohen owned a grocery store and dance hall in Kingston.
- Name Access
- Cohen, Jenny
- Finkelstein, Lily
- Rosen, Annie
- Rosen, Hyman
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Musicians
- 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
- Kingston (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 33; Series 2; Item 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 33
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1942 and 1945]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Dave Solomon standing in front of a parked car with another man seated inside it.
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-96
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-23
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [194-]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a bound document entitled 'This Is Our Faith'. The subtitle is 'The Religion of the Jews' and it appears to have been presented at a seminar of religions, under the auspices of Community Programs Branch, Department of Education, Province of Ontario.
- Custodial History
- There is no information on the acquisition of this material.
- Subjects
- Religion
- Politics and government
- Name Access
- Cohen, Julius
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-6-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-6-12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ca. 60 cm of textual records
- 11 photographs (3 negatives) : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1976-[ca. 1990]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual and graphic records that trace Natan Sharansky's history as a prisoner of political conscience; the broader Refusenik issue; and the community advocacy efforts of Debby and Stan Solomon from 1976 and into the late 1980s at the local, national and international scales. Included are memos and newsletters from the Committee for Soviet Jewry (Ontario Region and national-level); background information as well as petition templates, speeches and planning documentation produced by the Committee to Release Anatoly Sharansky and the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in conjunction with community organizations, including the CJC and its Soviet Jewry social action committees, to support on-going advocacy efforts; correspondence with Canadian and American political representatives at the provincial/state and national levels; white papers/grey literature from non-governmental organizations about the persecution of the Soviet Jewry; planning documentation from the First Annual Sharansky Lectureship on Human Rights in 1980; correspondence, articles and ephemera associated with the granting of Sharansky's honourary law doctorate from York University in 1982; 1985 Freedom Rally/Weekend in Ottawa planning documentation and correspondence; 1987 National Conference on the Soviet Jewry and Mobilization for Freedom planning documentation; 1987 Community Rally at Massey Hall promotional materials; and promotional materials from Sharansky's autobiographical "Fear No Evil" 1988 book launch. Graphic material includes photographs of Sharansky's release during the February 11, 1986 American-Soviet prisoner exchange on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.
- Identified in the photographs are: Debby Solomon; Stan Solomon; Natan Sharansky; Avital Sharansky; U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt;
- Custodial History
- Material was collected and/or created by Debby Solomon, Natan Sharansky's cousin. Debby donated it to the OJA.
- Administrative History
- Debby Solomon is the cousin of Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, the Soviet born Israeli politician, human activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons. Debby's father Boris Landis (born 1900) and Sharansky's father were first cousins.Their grandfathers were brothers. Debby's father immigrated 1929 to Toronto from Russia as his older brothers were already in Toronto. Debby and her husband Stan Solomon got involved in the community's activism efforts to free Sharansky and other Refuseniks.They were worked for many years on these efforts by planning programs through their synagogue Beth Tikvah and with Sam Filer, a lawyer and volunteer at the CJC who was also a member of Beth Tikvah.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Politics and government
- Human rights
- Demonstrations
- Synagogues
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-2-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-2-12
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 45 cm of textual records and other material
- 230 photographs : sepia and b&w ; 23 x 30 cm and smaller
- 8 sound recordings (50 wav files; 1 microcassette)
- 1 artifact
- Date
- 1937-2004
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual records, photographs and audio recordings documenting the lives of Dick Steele, his wife Esther, and friend Bill Walsh. The materials are mostly correspondences between Dick and Esther during his internment at the Don Jail and Ontario Reformatory in Guelph, and from Dick and Bill's military service overseas during the Second World War. They also include correspondences between Esther and Bill, Bill and Anne Walsh, "Jack" and Esther, and other family and friends. Some of the letters show evidence of being censored. There are news clippings in English and Yiddish about the family from various newspapers including the Canadian Tribune (a Communist Party paper). There is a letter Esther wrote to campaign for Dick's release from internment, part of women's activism in this period. There is also a photocopy of a memoir written by Moses Kosowatsky and Moses Wolofsky "From the Land of Despair to the Land of Promise" ca. 1930s.
- The photographs include Dick and Bill in the army during the Second World War, a signed picture of Tim Buck addressed to Esther and the twins and a photo of Dick delivering a speech related to the Steel Workers. Also included is a recording of edited sound clips of Bill and Esther talking about Dick, Esther speaking about the letters, (how she received letters and flowers from Dick after he had already been killed), Bill reading a letter Dick wrote to Esther that he left with friends in England to send her in the case that he was killed (which he was), recordings of "Bill Walsh Oral history" Vols.1 and 2 compiled by Leib Wolofsky's (Bill's nephew), and 5 audio recordings by Adrianna Steele-Card with her grandparents Bill and Esther. There is also a microcassette labelled "Joe Levitt."
- The accession also includes the stripe of a German corporal that Bill captured as a prisoner, peace stamps and an early copy of Cy Gonick's A Very Red Life: The Story of Bill Walsh, edited by Bill.
- Administrative History
- Richard "Dick" Kennilworth Steele is the name adopted by Moses Kosowatsky. He was born in 1909 in Montreal to Samuel Kosowatsky and Fanny Held. He lived in a laneway off Clark Street, below Sherbrooke, where his father collected and recycled bottles. He grew up with his siblings, Joseph, Mortimer, Matthew, Gertrude, and Edward.
- Bill Walsh (birth name Moishe Wolofsky) was born in 1910, to Sarah and Herschel Wolofsky, the editor of the Keneder Adler (Montreal's prominent Yiddish newspaper). He attended Baron Byng and then Commercial High School, where he met Dick Steele. Bill recalled that Dick denounced militarism in the school when a teacher tried to recruit students to be cadets.
- Bill moved to New York City in 1927. His brother, who was living there, helped him get a job as a messenger on Wall Street. He also worked in the drug department at Macy's while attending courses at Columbia University in the evening. Dick worked on a ship for a year and then joined Bill in New York City in 1928. Dick worked at a chemical plant called Linde Air Products while also studying in the evenings at Columbia University.
- In 1931, Dick and Bill boarded a ship together in New York bound for Copenhagen. Together, they travelled across Europe, witnessed a Nazi demonstration in Breslau, Germany, and found work in Minsk and Moscow, Russia. This trip inspired them to become Communists. In 1933, Bill's father was on a Canadian trade mission to Poland, which he left to "rescue" his son from the Bolsheviks. Bill agreed to return to Canada after being advised to do so by the Comintern. He then changed his name to Bill Walsh to protect his family.
- In 1934, Bill moved to Toronto. He worked as the educational director for the Industrial Union of Needle Trade Workers and the Communist Party, where he met Esther Slominsky/Silver, the organization's office manager. Dick joined Bill in Toronto soon after. Bill introduced Dick and Esther, who then married. In 1940, Esther gave birth to twin sons, Michael and John Steele. Esther was born in Toronto in 1914 to Joseph Slominsky and Fanny (Blackersany?). Her siblings were Bella, Eileen, Morris, and step-sister Eva. Her father, Joseph, was a cloak maker and Esther also worked in the garment industry. Her mother Fanny passed away in 1920 at the age of twenty-six from tuberculosis.
- Dick was a metal worker and became a union organizer in the east end of Toronto. He was the head organizer of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of Canada (SWOC) until 1940, when he was dismissed for being a Communist. Bill helped organize Kitchener's rubber workers into an industrial union and was also an organizer for the United Auto Workers of Windsor, Ontario.
- Jack Steele, an alias for Dick's brother Mortimer, fought with the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. Jack Steele was recalled to Canada in October 1937 to rally support for the efforts in Spain, returned to the front in June 1938, and was killed in action in August. Some of Dick's letters to his wife, Esther, are signed "Salud, Jack" and were likely written in 1940 when the Communist Party (CP) was banned by the Canadian government under the War Measures Act.
- In November 1941, after Mackenzie King's call for enlistment, Dick wrote to the Department of Justice to ask permission to join the army. He never received a reply. On 1 April 1942, Dick's home was raided and he was interned at the Don Jail until September 1942, when he was moved to the Ontario Reformatory in Guelph. Esther wrote a letter to the minister of justice, Louis St. Laurent, to appeal on his behalf.
- Major public campaigning by Communists and the wartime alliance with the USSR after 1941 shifted public opinion toward the CP, and the Canadian government slowly began releasing internees in January 1942. Dick was released in October 1942 and enlisted at the end of the month. Dick died on 17 August 1944 in Normandy, France. He was a tank driver in the Canadian Army.
- Bill was similarly arrested in 1941, spending time in jail and then an internment camp with other members of the CP. He joined the Canadian Army in 1943 and fought in Holland and Belgium. Bill was first married to Anne Weir who died of a brain hemorrhage in 1943, just before he enlisted. The family believes this may have been due to drinking unpasteurized milk. Encouraged by Dick Steele to take care of his family should he pass in the war, Bill married Esther Steele in 1946. They had a daughter named Sheri and were members of the United Jewish People's Order. For twenty years, Walsh worked for the Hamilton region of the United Electrical Workers (UE). Bill remained a member of the CP until 1967, when we was expelled for criticizing another union leader. He died in 2004. Esther passed away in 2010 at age ninety-six.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- RELATED MATERIAL NOTE: Library and Archives Canada has the William Walsh fonds and MG 28, ser. I 268, USWA, vol.4, SWOC Correspondence, has various letters from Dick Steele ca. 1938. Museum of Jewish Montreal has an oral history with Leila Mustachi (daughter of Max Wolofsky, Bill's brother) where she speaks about Bill, Dick and Esther. USE CONDITION NOTES: For "Bill Walsh Oral history" Vols.1 and 2, some contributors stipulate that recordings are restricted to personal use only and must not be used for any commercial purpose.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945
- Politics and government
- Labour and unions
- Name Access
- Steele, Michael
- Steele, Dick
- Walsh, Bill
- Walsh, Esther Steele
- Places
- England
- Fort William (Ont.)
- Germany
- Guelph (Ont.)
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Montréal (Québec)
- Netherlands
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- Thunder Bay (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Address
- 42 St George Street
- Source
- Landmarks
In 1919, Mr. Mendel Granatstein commissioned Benjamin Brown and Robert McConnell to design a three storey Classical Georgian style house located at 42 St. George Street. The house contained a unique feature -- a retractable roof used on Sukkoth. In 1947, the house was acquired by the University of Toronto and was used for a variety of purposes until it was demolished in 1999. The Bahen Centre for Information Technology now stands in its place.
- Address
- 42 St George Street
- Time Period
- 1919-1999
- Scope Note
- In 1919, Mr. Mendel Granatstein commissioned Benjamin Brown and Robert McConnell to design a three storey Classical Georgian style house located at 42 St. George Street. The house contained a unique feature -- a retractable roof used on Sukkoth. In 1947, the house was acquired by the University of Toronto and was used for a variety of purposes until it was demolished in 1999. The Bahen Centre for Information Technology now stands in its place.
- History
- Mr. Mendel Granatstein was a member of one of the early Jewish families of Toronto. In 1895, he founded M. Granatstein and Sons, Ltd., a junk dealing company, and by the early 20th century, he had become one of the most prosperous Jews in Toronto. Mr. Granatstein was also a community leader, having a hand in the foundation of Beth Jacob Synagogue.
- Category
- Architecture
- Residences
- Source
- Landmarks
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3285
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3285
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1912]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Farber, Harold
- Spencer, Sammy
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3270
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3270
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1921
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Photo by European Studios, 315A Queen St. W., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Yashinsky, Hinda
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 993
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 993
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The congregation was formed in 1909 and its first building was opened on Spadina Avenue in 1921. In ca 1960 the congregation moved to the Bathurst and Sheppard area after the synagogue was damaged by fire. In 1975 the congregation merged with Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of three young men leaning on the side of a decorated car.
- Name Access
- Anshei England
- Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue
- Hebrew Men of England Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Londoner Shul
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 454
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 454
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Ida Strauss (left) and Anna Kernerman beside a car on Lakeshore Boulevard, Toronto.
- Notes
- Inscription on front: "Snappy car, eh what? Lakeshore Blvd. April/28".
- Name Access
- Kernerman, Anna
- Strauss, Ida
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- Lake Shore Boulevard (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- Acquired April 7, 1975.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4177
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4177
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1923
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Haber, Isadore
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- Parliament Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-12-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 104; File 2; Item 7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 104
- File
- 2
- Item
- 7
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 21 cm on matte 25 x 30 cm and 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is an original and a copy print of a photograph of Carl Frankel and Alan (Mousee) Thomas beside a car (identified as an Everet EMF) at the north end of Queens Park, Toronto. Both boys appear to be in their late teens.
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 46
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr (left) and Sylvia Brenner (right) seated in a car. Two other friends are seated in the back seats.
- Name Access
- Brenner, Sylvia
- Mehr, Ethel
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 938
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 938
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1926
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of men and women standing along side a car on Golden Avenue in South Porcupine, Ontario. Pictured from left to right are: Rose Varner (m. Malin), Morris Bucovetsky, Anita Levinson, Rose Bucovetsky, Lily Slotnick (m. Kaplan), Sonia Bucovetsky, Fanny Sky and Min Levinson Gram.
- Name Access
- Malin, Rose
- Bucovetsky, Morris
- Levinson, Anita
- Bucovetsky, Rose
- Kaplan, Lily
- Bucovetsky, Sonia
- Sky, Fanny
- Levinson Gram, Min
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- South Porcupine (Timmins, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1976-8-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1611
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1611
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of (pictured left to right): Dora Rosenbloom, [Joe Perkus?], Fanny Sky (driving), Ruby Sky, and Sol Sky of South Porcupine, Ontario. The group are seated in a car, next to a lake.
- Name Access
- Perkus, Joe
- Rosenbloom, Dora
- Sky, Fanny
- Sky, Ruby
- Sky, Sol
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- South Porcupine (Timmins, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-12-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1332
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1332
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of the Bucovetsky family seated in a car. Pictured in the back on the far left is Fanny Sky. The child next to her is Fanny Bucovetsky. Driving the car is Sam Bucovetsky.
- Name Access
- Bucovetsky, Fanny
- Bucovetsky, Sam
- Sky, Fanny
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Families
- 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
- South Porcupine (Timmins, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-6-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 939
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 939
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Tommy Feldman (centre) and Max Levine (right) leaning up against a car in Timmins, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Feldman, Tommy
- Levine, Max
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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
- Timmins (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1976-8-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 37; Series 5; Item 3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 37
- Series
- 5
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1932]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Nathan Gittelmacher was an immigrant from the Ukraine who moved to Toronto and first worked as a photographer at Empire Studios. In 1922, he opened up his own business called Elite Studios, located at 615 Queen Street West. He specialized in portraits and catered to a largely Jewish clientele.
- Nathan Gittelmacher changed his family's name to Gilbert in the early 1940s and subsequently altered the family business name to Gilbert Studios. Nathan was married to Nina and they had four children named: Lou, Jack, Albert and Ruth.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gilbert family in swimming suits posing in front of their automobile with the Elite Studio insignia at Sunnyside Beach in Toronto.
- Boris Waxer is lying on top of the car and Nina Gilbert is behind the wheel. In front of the car from left to right are: Nathan Gilbert, Albert Gilbert, Jack Gilbert, Lou Gilbert, Evelyn Stacker and reclining in front is Joe Gilbert. Standing at the far right is the driver.
- Name Access
- Stacker, Evelyn
- Waxer, Boris
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Outdoor recreation
- Portraits, Group
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Weingluck fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 44
- Item
- 14
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Etta Simon and her daughter Rae Simon (m. Weingluck) standing in front of Queen Circle Inn, Bernstein's Hotel and Restaurant in Crystal Beach, Ontario.
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Mothers and daughters
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Crystal Beach (Fort Erie, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-11
- Source
- Archival Descriptions