Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Moses Levine's mother whose name was Sarah Levine (1832-1915).

Name Access

Levine, Sarah

Subjects

Mothers

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

Photograph is torn in half.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1900]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of (left to right) Mary, Fanny and Anne Levine as young children in Toronto.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on card frame.

Name Access

Levine, Anne

Levine, Fanny

Levine, Mary

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

Photograph has a small tear, the image has faded, and it is lifting off of the card frame.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca.1910]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 14 cm

Admin History/Bio

Phoebe Street School was located in downtown Toronto around Spadina and Queen streets. It later became the Ogden Public School.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Anne Levine's Phoebe Street School class. She was likely in the fifth grade at this time. She is standing in the second row from the top, fifth from the left.

Notes

Mounted on card frame.

Inscribed on verso in pencil: "Miss Annie Levine, 224 Beverley Street, Toronto, Ontario From Mr. M Kinley".

Name Access

Levine, Anne

Levine, Annie

Subjects

Students

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

16

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1924

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of four women in front of what appears to be a Niagara Falls backdrop. The woman standing at the top left is Anne Levine and the woman standing next to her may be Ruth Levy.

Notes

Postcard photograph.

Name Access

Levine, Anne

Levy, Ruth

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

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1906]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Abe and Harry Levine in matching sailor's outfits.

Name Access

Levine, Abe

Levine, Harry

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm

Admin History/Bio

Anne Black was born in approximately 1900 and was a friend of Anne Levine's.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Anne Black taken in Toronto around 1915.

Notes

Mounted in card frame.

Name Access

Black, Anne

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : sepia toned ; 14 x 10 cm

Admin History/Bio

Rachel Nurich was a friend of Sarah Levine's. She was born in Russia around 1877 to Louis and Sara Nurich. She married Abraham Merkin on 20 August 1896 in York.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rachel Nurich taken at a studio in Toronto.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Photographer: Dixon Studios, King and Yonge streets, Toronto.

Name Access

Nurich, Rachel

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

Photograph is starting to fade and is fragile and torn along the bottom edge.

Photograph has lifted off its support.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Fanny Levine likely taken in Toronto.

Notes

Postcard photograph.

Name Access

Levine, Fanny

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

4 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Fanny Levine likely taken in Toronto. She is seated on a chair with her hands folded on her lap.

Notes

Postcard photograph.

There are four copies of this photograph.

Name Access

Levine, Fanny

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

Image is faded.

Photo #201 has been torn in half.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1925]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Harry Levine taken in a Toronto studio when he was approximately twenty-two years old.

Notes

Photographer: Lyttle & Kennedy Studios.

Name Access

Levine, Harry

Subjects

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.

Physical Condition

Photograph is in good condition.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1913

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 16 cm

Admin History/Bio

Phoebe Street School was located in downtown Toronto around Spadina and Queen streets. It later became the Ogden Public School.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Phoebe Street School home economics class. This was a required course for girls at this time. The girls are standing in front of a blackboard around a counter and are wearing aprons and hats. Anne Levine was in this class and can be found in this photograph, likely the second girl from the left.

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

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 15 x 21 cm (sight) on mat 25 x 30 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of boys at work, using various woodworking tools, in a manual training class at the Lansdowne School in Toronto. Abe Levine is located fourth from the right.

Name Access

Levine, Abe

Subjects

Manual training

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1911]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 14 cm

Admin History/Bio

Phoebe Street School was located in downtown Toronto around Spadina and Queen streets. It later became the Ogden Public School.

Scope and Content

Item is a class photograph from Phoebe Street School in Toronto. It may have been her sixth grade class. Anne Levine is seated in the second row and is the second from the left.

Notes

Mounted on card frame.

Name Access

Levine, Anne

Subjects

Students

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 14 cm

Admin History/Bio

Phoebe Street School was located in downtown Toronto around Spadina and Queen streets. It later became the Ogden Public School.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Abe Levine's Phoebe Street School class. It was likely his fourth grade class. Abe is sitting in the front row, fourth from the left.

Notes

Mounted on card frame

Name Access

Levine, Abe

Subjects

Students

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 is stained.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Series

Fonds

25

Series

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-]-1976

Physical Description

28 photographs : b&w and sepia toned (3 negative) ; 28 x 18 cm or smaller

3 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Moses (Moishe) Joseph Levine (1864-1919) immigrated to Toronto from Minsk in 1887. He was the son of Aaron and Sarah Levine (née Snider) (1832-1915). He began working as a peddler and later became a grocer. Sarah Levine (née Cass) (1876-1978) emigrated from Russia to Montreal around 1891, with her younger brother, Phillip. She then came to Toronto and initially lived with her sister, possibly Annie Smith, on York Street. Her first employment in the city was as a dressmaker. She was the daughter of Abraham Cass (1840-1897) and Rachel Rebecca Cass (née Cowart?) (1838-1903), who both immigrated to Canada in 1892.

Moses and Sarah met in Toronto and were married in 1895. They went to Midland with Moses' brother, Michael, and opened a store there. Their first daughter, Mary Soskin (1895-1990), was born in Midland that same year. However, after a few years, Moses and Sarah decided to move back to Toronto while Michael stayed in Midland with his wife, Anne Woods, and their children.

Moses and Sarah Levine first lived on Chestnut Street, then moved to Centre Avenue, then 115 Spadina Avenue near Dundas around 1903, and finally to 224 Beverley Street near College. Moses' mother, Sarah, lived with them for thirteen years. They had six additional children: Fanny (1898-1923), Anne Thuna (1899-1964), Abe (b. 1901), Harry (b. 1903), Rita (1905-1975), and Dorothy Bliss (1909-1992).

In the 1910 Toronto City Directory, Moses is listed as a grocer at 115 Spadina Avenue at Adelaide. Once he was able to, he moved into a larger wholesale grocery at 25 Jarvis Street in Toronto and is listed there in the 1920 Toronto City Directory.

The Levine family belonged to Goel Tzedec Congregation, which was located in a small church building purchased for the synagogue on University Avenue at Elm Street. A larger building was later built on University Avenue.

Moses died in 1919 after accidentally falling down an elevator shaft at his grocery store. The family closed the business shortly thereafter and the family continued to live on Beverley Street.

Scope and Content

Series consists of photographs which include the immediate family members and friends of the Moses Levine family. Series also contains one file of textual records relating to Sarah Levine's 90th and 94th birthdays and life membership in the Baycrest Women's Auxiliary.

Name Access

Levine, Moses

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm (sight) on mat 25 x 30 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a class portrait of the students and teacher in the Lansdowne School manual training class. Harry Levine is fourth from the right.

Name Access

Levine, Harry

Subjects

Manual training

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

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Moses Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

1

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm (sight) on mat 25 x 30 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the teacher and students in the Lansdowne School manual training class in Toronto. Many of the boys are wearing aprons and are holding various woodworking tools. The second boy from the right in the front row may be Abe Levine.

Name Access

Levine, Abe

Subjects

Manual training

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

Moses Levine family series

Level

File

Fonds

25

Series

1

File

1

Material Format

object

textual record

Date

1966-1976

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains a certificate granting Sarah Levine (née Cass) life membership at the Women's Auxiliary Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care (1973); 1 small box containing plaque honouring occasion of 90th birthday (1966); a 94th birthday certificate from the Government of Ontario (1970); a 100th birthday certificate from the Government of Ontario (1976) and, three telegrams honouring the occasion of her 94th birthday (1970).

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

1982-8-3

Source

Archival Descriptions