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- Accession Number
- 2022-2-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2022-2-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1913]-1923
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 8 photographs and three letters addressed to Fannie Adelman from Berul Sugarman, as well as one recital program. The photographs depict:
- A young child, dressed in white, standing on a large chair and holding and violin and bow, likely Abie Sugarman
- An unknown child in a dark sweater with two buttons on the shoulder, standing in front of a small table holding a violin at his side.
- A head-and-shoulders shot of a young man, likely Abie Sugarman, perhaps about age 8 or 9. A note in pencil on the back of this photo reads "A MERRY XMAS GREET your father and mother and sister"
- A portrait of Abie Sugarman, perhaps about age 10 or 11, holding his violin as if to play, standing beside a seated gentleman who might be his instructor Broadus Farmer
- A full-length portrait of Abie Sugarman holding his violin as if to play, about age 13
- A portrait of Abie Sugarman standing with his violin tucked under his right arm and his bow hanging from his right hand, about age 13. There is a ring visible on his right hand
- A small head-and-shoulders photo of Abie Sugarman, perhaps in his late teens or early twenties
- A portrait of Fannie Adelman, taken in 1923 when she was 13 or 14, about two years after these letters were written to her.
- The other items are: the programme of a recital given at The Hambourg Conservatory Recital Hall on Tuesday June 21, 1921; a partial letter from Abie Sugarman to Fannie Adelman, dated June 29, 1921; a two-page letter from Abie Sugarman to Fannie Adelman, undated; a four-page letter from Abie Sugarman to Fannie Adelman, undated; a stamped empty envelope. It is believed by the donor that at least one of these letters was in this envelope, and delivered by hand despite the stamp. All three letters were send from 240 Dundas St. West, where the Sugarman family was living at the time.
- Administrative History
- Berul Sugarman (Abram Berul Sugarman) was born to Jacob (Jake) and Annie (Starkman) Sugarman on 28 May 1908, in Toronto, where he lived for most but not all of his life. The Sugarman family appears to have lived briefly in Welland; the Welland directory for 1919 includes a listing for "Jake Sugarman, restaurant, west side of Main Street, house same." This would have been when Abie (he began calling himself "Berul" later in life; he went by "Abie" in his younger years) met Fannie Adelman, older daughter of Joseph Adelman and Baila (Moschiach, anglicised to Miller). Fannie was born in Montreal in 1909 and moved to Welland with her parents and younger sister Minnie sometime after 1915.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Musicians
- Letters
- Portraits
- Name Access
- Sugarman, Abram Berul, 1908-1982
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions