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Rachel (Saul) Silverman
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-5
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (tiff)
- Date
- 1920-1926
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of Rae Saul and her relatives outside the Saul family homes on Elizabeth or Venaly Street and Nassau Street. Identified are Millie Aaron, Anna Saul, and Sam Saul.
- Administrative History
- Joseph and Anna Saul came to Canada from Romania in the early 1900s. They had six children together: Sam (b. 1908), Rachel (Rae, b. 1910), Ida, Jeanette, Bonnie, and Dorothy. Joseph abandoned the family around 1923 and travelled to California to become an actor. Although his family never heard from him again, they later recognized him in movies under the name Maurice Samuels. Anna was deaf and mute and worked as a seamstress, making ladies clothing out of her own home. Rae obtained work in a hat factory when she was 13 years old and continued in this trade throughout the remainder of her life. Around 1950 she opened her own hat store at Eglinton and Dufferin called Rae's Hats. She briefly lived above the store with her husband, Sam Silverman.
- Use Conditions
- 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.
- Subjects
- Families
- Name Access
- Aaron, Millie
- Saul, Anna
- Saul, Sam
- Silverman, Rae
- Places
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions