Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Jewish community events series

Level

Series

Fonds

37

Series

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936-1979

Physical Description

8 negatives : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Series consists of photographs taken by Al and/or Nathan Gilbert that document Jewish events held in the city of Toronto. The kind of events included are dedication ceremonies, groundbreaking ceremonies, city council meetings, dinners and walks.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Jewish community events series

Level

Item

Fonds

37

Series

7

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1936]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society was founded in 1905 to provide assistance to newly arrived immigrants and to promote a prosperous Jewish community. The Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society's Ladies Auxiliary was founded in 1922 with Mrs. Sophie Torno as the first Chairlady. The Ladies Auxiliary assisted the Society in collecting funds for various philanthropic causes. Moreover, they organized lectures and entertainment.

Scope and Content

Item is a negative of the the Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society's Ladies' Auxiliary parade. The image depicts a group of women walking down a street carrying a large banner with the inscription: "Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society Ladies Auxiliary, Friendship, Established 1921." The women have sashes with Pride of Israel across them and 15th Jubilee.

Name Access

Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society Ladies' Auxiliary

Subjects

Parade

Societies

Women

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

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

45

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Date

1906-1975

Physical Description

13 cm of textual records

42 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 28 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Betty Goldstick Lindgren (1892-1984) was a prominent member of several Toronto Jewish social service organizations. She was born in Latvia, the daughter of Sarah and William (Wolf) Goldstick. The couple had ten children. The family came to Canada in 1904 when Betty was a young child. She studied at Phoebe School, and later went on to the University of Toronto and earned her degree in 1919. She began teaching and married a Swede named Karl Tycko Lindgren. They had two children, but only their son, Edward, survived.

Betty was involved in the Herzl Girls' Zionist Society as well as the Deborah Chapter of Hadassah. She was also a Toronto delegate to the first Canadian Jewish Congress in Montreal, 1919. Her brothers Maurice and Edward owned the E & M Wrecking Building Company. Her sister, Dorothy Dworkin, was a trained midwife and owner of Dworkin Shipping Agents with her husband Henry. Her brother Isadore was a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Her brother David was a lawyer and labour activist. Her other siblings were Emma, Celia, Annie and Jean. Betty passed away on November 6, 1984.

Custodial History

The records were donated by Edward Lindgren, Betty's son, in 1978. They were all part of 78-10/1 and included a list of items. Some of the material, such as the books, Jewish newspapers, and magazines have been separated from the fonds and placed into MG 9. The Herzl Girls Zionist Society minutes and records were placed in MG2 J1K shortly after they arrived. A file list of items included in this fonds has been created and is available below. A number of non-Canadian periodicals and books have been removed from the fonds. A list of these items is included with box 54-2-4. Several of these were put aside for auction, and several might be integrated into the OJA's publication holdings at a later date.

Scope and Content

The records in this fonds document the life and activities of Betty Goldstick Lindgren. They include correspondence, memorabilia, press clippings, invitations, certificates, programs as well as an autograph book and family record book.

The fonds also includes family photographs of Betty and the Goldstick family.

Notes

The textual records have been placed in acid-free files, with some of the more delicate items in melinex folders.

Name Access

Lindgren, Betty Goldstick, 1892-1984

Related Material

See Dorothy Dworkin fonds 10.

Arrangement

The textual records have been arranged in chronological order into 12 files. The 42 photographs have been described as items. Items 19-23 (photos #1539a-e) form one file (file 13).

Creator

Lindgren, Betty Goldstick, 1892-?

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1935

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm

Admin History/Bio

Tommy was the son of David Goldstick and Sarah Goldstick (née Kaplan). He was born in the early 1930s. He married Nellie in August 1957. They divorced, and he re-married in 1964. He lived in Cambridge, Massachussetts, and then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Scope and Content

Portrait of Tommy Goldstick as a child.

Subjects

Children

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.

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1939 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 7 cm

Admin History/Bio

Ralph Constam was the son of Annie Goldstick and Jake Constam. The parents were married in 1910 in Toronto. Ralph was born on 19 September 1912. He served overseas during the Second World War and married Annaca "Ann" Spero in Holland in 1945. They had a second wedding in Toronto in May 1946. Ann and Ralph had two children, Jacqui and Simon.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Ralph Constam and Manny, who was likely a cousin or a friend.

Subjects

Military uniforms

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

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1938]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8 cm on mat 28 x 20 cm

Admin History/Bio

Esther Goldstick Swartz was the daughter of Dr. Idadore Goldstick and Anna Goldstick (née Nathanson). They married in December 1917 and lived in London, Ontario. Esther was born during the early 1930s. She married Dr. Gerry Swartz in August 1952. The family moved to Buffalo in 1959. They had two children, Cellia and William, both of whom were born in Buffalo.

Scope and Content

Childhood photograph of Esther Goldstick taken in London, Ontario, during the late 1930s.

Notes

The photograph was taken at the Little Studio in London, Ontario.

Subjects

Girls

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

London (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1931]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 15 cm mounted and framed 39 x 30 cm

Admin History/Bio

Sarah Goldstick was married to Wolf Goldstick. Their daughter Celia married Mr. Louis Goodman, and they had two daughters, Dina and Rose. Dina only lived until the age of two. The surviving child, Rose, was born in Chicago. She married Mac Snider during the 1920s, and they had two children, Jordon and Susan, who were born in 1929 and 1935 respectively. Her husband died at a young age in March 1935, leaving Rose a young widow.

Scope and Content

This family portrait includes four generations of Goldsticks: Sarah Goldstick (far right), Celia Goodman (left), Rose Snider (back) and her son Jordon (in front). The photograph was taken in Toronto at Simpson Brothers Studio on Yonge Street, five years before Sarah passed away in 1936.

Notes

The file list provides the name Gordon for the child. However, Betty's family record book indicates that Rose's son's name was Jordon Sigmund Harry Snider. Therefore Jordon is used as the name for the child.

Name Access

Goodman, Mrs. Celia

Goldstick, Mrs. Wolf

Snider, Gordon

Snider, Rose

Subjects

Families

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.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

File

Fonds

45

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1906-1936

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

This file contains memorabilia from Betty Lindgren's childhood and adulthood. It includes invitations to her sister Annie's 1910 wedding and her brother Isidore's 1917 wedding, a public school certificate of honor, high school year cards, a newspaper clipping, condolence telegrams from her father Wolf's passing in 1923, Yiddish reading exercises, a University of Toronto commencement program, and the pamphlet: "How to tell Bible stories to Jewish children.".

Name Access

Annie Goldstick

Isidore Goldstick

Wolf Goldstick

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

File

Fonds

45

File

2

Material Format

textual record

Date

1906-1948

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

This file contains the following items: 1) Souvenir from the seventh annual convention, held in Toronto in 1906. It features a rendering of Theodor Herzl; 2) Jewish Colonial Trust Share Club booklet issued to Betty Goldstick in 1907 by the Herzl Girls for the purpose of tracking instalments towards share holding. Stamps from the organization were used to track payments; 3) Pamphlet advertising The Herzl Girls' production of "Esther, a Purim play," March 16, 1908. Assisted by the Zion Cadet Corps, the production was held at Assembly Hall, Zion Institute; 4) Program from a comedietta and dance given by The Herzl Girls' Zionist Society on Jan. 25, 1916. The dance was held at the Orange Hall on Euclid and College Streets; 5) "The Zionist movement: its aims and achievements," by Israel Cohen; 6) "A Zionist catechism," published by the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada; 7) Certificate from JNF's King George V Jubilee Forest in Israel, made out to "Elijah Lindgreen" of Toronto, Ontario. "Elijah" was likely the Hebrew name of Betty's son Edward; 8) May, 1948, State of Israel issue of "Canadian Zionist". The materials in this file are arranged in chronological order by date of publication.

Name Access

Edward Lindgren

Elijah Lindgren

Israel Cohen

Subjects

Zionism

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

File

Fonds

45

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1911-1938

Physical Description

4 cm of textual records

Scope and Content

This file contains Betty Lindgren's personal correspondence from between 1911 and 1938. A large portion of the letters are from Betty's mother (Sarah Goldstick), and her niece Ellen (Honey) Dworkin, but among them are letters from Betty's sisters Ellen Lurie (and daughter Mae), Jean Slone, Dora (Dorothy) Dworkin and Annie Constam. The file includes notes of condolence from when Betty's father Wolf Goldstick passed away in 1923, and dental x-rays made in 1925. The correspondence has been arranged in chronological order. The first folder covers 1911 to 1924, and the second covers 1925 to 1938, and includes undated correspondence.

Name Access

Sarah Goldstick

Ellen Dworkin

Honey Dworkin

Wolf Goldstick

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

File

Fonds

45

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

[192-?]-[193-?]

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

This file contains 14 tally cards for playing bridge. Featuring 5 different designs, these unused tally cards were likely printed in the 1920s or 1930s.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

File

Fonds

45

File

10

Material Format

textual record

Date

1927-1945

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains newsclippings about members of the Goldstick family. The 12 clippings include: articles about the tragic death in 1928 of Henry Dworkin (husband of Betty's sister Dorothy), a write-up of a friend's wedding, as well as Betty's niece's (Rose Goodman) wedding, and an obituary for Jacob Constam. Items are arranged in chronological order by date.

Name Access

Sylvia Goldstick

Isidore Goldstick

Henry Dworkin

Rose Goodman

Sadie Goldberg

Jacob Constam

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

File

Fonds

45

File

11

Material Format

textual record

Date

1939

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Edward "Eddie" Lindgren was born on 4 November 1926 to Betty and Tycko Lindgren in Toronto. He married Charlotte Minerva Nussbaum on 30 June 1952 and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Scope and Content

This file contains JNF Tree Fund certificate no. 2843, for two trees, made out "In the name of Elijah Lidgren," "on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah, Nov. 4/39 Inscribed by the Western So. Hadassah Chapter, Toronto, Ont." Elijah is likely Betty's son Edward's Hebrew name.

Notes

Biographical information on Edward Lindgren taken from Betty Lindgren's book of "family research," Fonds 45, file 12.

Name Access

Elijah Lindgren

Edward Lindgren

Physical Condition

Certificate is slightly stained.

Source

Archival Descriptions