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Workmen's Circle (Hamilton, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 2018-8-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-8-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 25 cm (sight) in mat 24 x 34 cm
- Date
- 1939
- Scope and Content
- Item is a group portrait of Workmen's Circle Branch 384. The photograph was taken on the occasion of the branch's thirtieth anniversary. Leo Badash of Hamilton is seated in the front row, third right.
- Custodial History
- George Leaf (né Lipshitz), who is depicted in the group portrait fourth from the left in the top row, was a member of Workmen's Circle Branch 384. He died in 1945.
- George's youngest daughter, Rose, who lived in the family home from her birth in 1922 until her death in 2012, had two copies of the framed photograph in her possession when she died.
- A neighbour and good friend of Rose's, who received much of Rose's estate, saved photographs and personal possessions, which she gave to Jeffrey Levinn, Rose's first cousin once removed.
- In 2018, Jeffrey Levinn donated a copy of the framed photograph to the Ontario Jewish Archives.
- Administrative History
- The Workmen's Circle (Yiddish: Arbeiter Ring) was founded in the United States by Jewish immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Circle branches were established in Canada in the first decade of the twentieth century. The Hamilton branch's number was 384.
- 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.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language: Title is in English; text below is in Yiddish.
- Subjects
- Nonprofit organizations
- Portraits, Group
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle (Hamilton, Ont.)
- Places
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions