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Sheila (Sprachman) Wolfish
- Accession Number
- 2010-12-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2010-12-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- textual record (electronic)
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 textual records
- 2 textual records (digital)
- 24 photographs: b&w ; 19 x 24 cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1913]-1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession includes two passports that belonged to Mina and Abraham Sprachman. It also consists of scanned images of the wedding invitation for the Fanny Sprachman and Jacob Caller nuptials and twenty-four photographs documenting the Sprachman family. Finally, it includes a letter written by Chester Sprachman, the son of Lena and Jake Sprachman, to his cousin in Chicago.
- Administrative History
- Hyman (Chaim) Sprachman (b. 1856) arrived in Toronto at the end of the nineteenth century with his eldest son, Benjamin (b. 1877), who was twenty at the time. They both worked as peddlars and resided in a boarding home for a while. Hyman sent for his family in Austria, and they arrived in 1904. His family included his wife, Sheindel, and children, Rebecca (b. 1887), Lena (b. 1891), Fanny (b. 1892), and Abraham (b. 1894). The family originally lived at 30 Gerrard and then relocated to 123 Baldwin around 1914. Abraham became a prominent architect and married his cousin Mina Sprachman (b. 1900) in 1921. They had two children: Mendel and Sheila. Mandel followed in his father's footsteps and also became a nationally recognized and acclaimed architect. Both specialized in theatre design and renovations.
- Descriptive Notes
- Related material note: See see accession 1979-4/2 for an early photograph of the Sprachman family.
- Source
- Archival Accessions