- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr and Sylvia Brenner standing in the backyard of the Mehr family home at 374 Markham St., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Brenner, Sylvia
- Mehr, Ethel
- 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
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 44
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 44
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr and Sylvia Brenner with two other unidentified women. They are all wearing fur coats and standing on the running board of a car.
- Name Access
- Brenner, Sylvia
- Mehr, Ethel
- 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
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 46
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 46
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr (left) and Sylvia Brenner (right) seated in a car. Two other friends are seated in the back seats.
- Name Access
- Brenner, Sylvia
- Mehr, Ethel
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 45
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 45
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This tiem is a photograph of Ethel Mehr (left) and Sylvia Brenner (second from left) seated on the running board of a car with two other women.
- Name Access
- Brenner, Sylvia
- Mehr, Ethel
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 18
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 76 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item consists of a photograph of members of a social club, which may be a sorority, either Alpha Epsilon Phi or Delta Phi Epsilon.
- Pictured left to right are: Molly Levinter; Jennie Fremes (m. Isadore Brodey); [unknown]; Sylvia Brenner (m. Lionel Fogler); Mary Wilder (m. Sam Yolles); Ethel Mehr (m. Henry Greisman); Lily Waldman (m. Abe Cass); Bertha Rosenfeld (m. Allen); [unknown]; Ella Fremes (m. Cherniofsky); Rose (m. Rafelman); Dorothy Andrews (m. Silverman).
- Name Access
- Allen, Bertha
- Andrews, Dorothy
- Brenner, Sylvia
- Brodey, Jennie
- Cass, Lily
- Cherniofsky, Ella
- Fogler, Sylvia
- Fremes, Ella
- Fremes, Jennie
- Greisman, Ethel
- Levinter, Molly
- Mehr, Ethel
- Rafelman, Rose
- Rosenfeld, Bertha
- Silverman, Dorothy
- Waldman, Lily
- Wilder, Mary
- Yolles, Mary
- Subjects
- Clubs
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- This photo is very dirty and cracked in several places.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 13
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr standing with a doll at the family home at 374 Markham Street, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Ethel
- 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.
- Places
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 22
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 22
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr standing in the backyard of the Mehr family home at 374 Markham St., Toronto. She is wearing a fur coat.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Ethel
- 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
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1916]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr at the Mehr cottage at Jackson's Point. She is pictured standing near the water on top of a wooden construction.
- 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.
- Places
- Jackson's Point (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 47
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 47
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 15 Dec. 1925
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm on matte 33 x 33 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the Mehr family taken on Ethel Mehr's wedding day. Pictured from left to right are: Pincus (brother), Lucille (sister), Leonard (brother), Bessie (mother), Ethel, Mendel (father), and Bernice Mehr (sister).
- Name Access
- Mehr, Pincus
- Mehr, Ethel
- Mehr, Lucille
- Mehr, Leonard
- Mehr, Bessie
- Mehr, Mendel
- Mehr, Bernice
- Greisman, Henry
- Subjects
- Families
- Portraits, Group
- Weddings
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 68
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1898]-1965
- Physical Description
- 70 photographs
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Ethel Mehr (1901-1975) was born in Toronto in March 1901, the daugther of Mendel and Bessie Mehr. She attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. On December 15, 1925, Ethel married Henry Greisman (1897-1950) who was a partner in the Balfour Building Company and later owned the Lady Ellis chain of clothing stores. They had two children, John Richard and Sally Barbara (m. Brenzel). After Henry Greisman's death, Ethel married Myer Brenner, whom she had first met as a young women.
- Ethel had four siblings, Pincus, Leonard, Lucille (Warshavsky) and Bernice (Dunkelman).
- Custodial History
- The materials in this fonds were donated to the Archives in 1988 by Sally (Greisman) Brenzel, the daughter of Ethel Mehr.
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of photographs and a small amount of textual records documenting the Mehr, Greisman and Brenner families. The photographs include images of the Mehr family and friends, including individual members of the Greisman and Brenner families, and images of the Lady Ellis Shops in Toronto, Stratford, Ottawa and Windsor. The textual records include Ethel Mehr's confirmation diploma from Holy Blossom Temple as well as a personal letter and a Bishop Strachan domestic science workbook.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Ethel, 1901-1975
- Subjects
- Children
- Education
- Creator
- Mehr, Ethel, 1901-1975
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 21
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 21
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Pincus and Ethel Mehr in the backyard of the family home at 374 Markham Street, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Pincus
- Mehr, Ethel
- 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
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 69
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 69
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a Passover seder at the home of Ethel and Meyer Brenner. The family is seated around the table.
- Subjects
- Families
- Portraits, Group
- Seder
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 39
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 39
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr standing in her bathing suit at Mehr's cottage at Jackson's Point, Ontario.
- 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.
- Places
- Jacksons Point (Georgina, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 50
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 50
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 9 Dec. 1929
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a dinner party thrown for Meyer Brenner. The photograph depicts 26 people dressed in tuxedos seated behind a banquet table. The event may have taken place at the King Edward Hotel.
- Pictured in the rear, from left to right: Lionel Fogler; Ben Miller.
- Front, from left to right: Alex Solway; Jake Rash Kofsky; Meyer Brenner.
- Notes
- Photo by Alexandra Studios.
- Subjects
- Dinners and dining
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- Photo is torn and missing a piece from the lower right side.
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 23
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 23
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr seated on the steps to her cottage at Jackson's Point, Ontario.
- Subjects
- Cottages
- 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
- Jackson's Point (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Events sub-series
- Park Plaza Opening file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-3
- File
- 1
- Item
- 6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (negative) ; 10 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a group portrait of, front row (left to right): Sylvia Schwartz, unknown man and unknown woman.
- Notes
- This image has no proofs.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 40
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 40
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1923]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr holding a set of golf clubs and standing next to Rita Cooper in Sutton, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Cooper, Rita
- Mehr, Ethel
- Subjects
- Golf
- 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.
- Places
- Sutton (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 36
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 36
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1919]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Bernice and Lucille Mehr standing in the backyard of the Mehr family home at 374 Markham St., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Bernice
- Mehr, Lucille
- Subjects
- Children
- 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
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 16
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 16
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1918
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of members of the Mehr family, possibly taken on University Avenue. Pictured in the rear, from left to right are: [unknown], Jacob Mehr, Ethel Mehr, Joseph Rosenblatt.
- In front, left to right: [unknown], [unknown].
- Jacob Mehr and Joseph Rosenblatt were the paternal and maternal grandfathers of Ethel Mehr.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Jacob
- Mehr, Ethel
- Rosenblatt, Joseph
- Subjects
- Families
- 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
- University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 5088
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5088
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Rabbi David Hartman. Hartman's photograph was kept by the Beth Sholom Synagogue adult education department. It is unclear whether or not he was invited to speak in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Hartman, David, 1931-2013
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Rabbis
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Accession Number
- 1989-6-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 48
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 48
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a group of people in bathing suits sitting on the dock at the Mehr's cottage in Jackson's Point, Ontario. Pictured from left to right are: Melba Hutner, Bernice Mehr, Eleanor Cohen (cousin), Ethel Mehr, Ruby Cohen (cousin), and Bert Cooper.
- Subjects
- 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
- Jacksons Point (Georgina, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 12
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a group of girls on the beach at the Mehr's cottage in Jackson's Point, Ontario. Pictured standing from left to right: Lucille Mehr, Charlotte Weis (cousin from Cleveland), Leonore Weis. Seated: Ethel Mehr.
- Subjects
- 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
- Jackson's Point (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Levine and Cass family fonds
- Miscellaneous family members series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 25
- Series
- 17
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The Samuel family lived in Toronto on Huron Street. Abraham Samuel was a tailor and his wife Martha was a housewife. Their daughter was listed as a student in 1931.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Sylvia Samuel taken during the turn of the twentieth century. The portrait was taken at a photo studio in Toronto. The subject was approximately two years old when the photograph was taken and was wearing a fur trimmed coat, a white hat and a large fur muff.
- Notes
- Photographer: Thompson Brothers.
- Mounted in card frame.
- Name Access
- Samuel, Sylvia
- Subjects
- Children
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 49
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 49
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1928]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Bessie Mehr standing in front of a stone building. The photograph was most likely taken in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Bessie
- 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.
- Places
- Mount Clemens (Mich.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 61
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 61
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [194-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Leonard Mehr wearing a military uniform in front of the Mehr family home on Burnside Dr. in Toronto. He is standing with his niece Carole Warren and nephew Fred Dunkelman. Several people are standing behind him on the porch.
- Name Access
- Dunkelman
- Mehr, Leonard
- Subjects
- Military uniforms
- 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
- Burnside Drive (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 33
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 33
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of four girls in the dormitory at Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. On the far right is Ethel Mehr.
- Name Access
- Bishop Strachan School
- Subjects
- Dormitories
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 32
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 32
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the dormitory at Bishop Strachan School. Ethel Mehr is pictured on the left of the two other girls.
- Name Access
- Bishop Strachan School
- Subjects
- Dormitories
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Events sub-series
- Park Plaza Opening file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-3
- File
- 1
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (negative) ; 10 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Phyllis Marshall (b. Barrie, ON, 4 Nov 1921) was a Canadian singer and actress. She studied piano as a child and was known as a track athlete, but made her debut at 15 as a singer on radio station CRCT. She then performed with Jack Arthur and on CBC radio with Percy Faith.
- Her first nightclub engagement was at Toronto's Silver Slipper, September 1938, with the Canadian Ambassadors. Encouraged by the CBC announcer Byng Whitteker to sing blues and jazz, she performed during the 1940s with various Toronto dance bands, including an 18-month stint at Toronto's Park Plaza Hotel 1944-46, with her own trio, and on tour 1947-8 in the USA with the Cab Calloway Orchestra.
- A contemporary of Eleanor Collins among early black performers on the CBC, Marshall appeared 1949-52 on radio's 'Blues for Friday' (later 'Starlight Moods') and starred on TV's 'The Big Revue' 1952-4, 'Cross-Canada Hit Parade' 1956-9, and other shows. She performed with Canadian jazz notables including Oscar Peterson and Bert Niosi, and also starred in the Canadian National Exhibition grandstand show. She performed in England on BBC TV in 1959 (The Phyllis Marshall Special) and again in 1964 in nightclubs. Her LP That Girl (1964, Cap FS-614), recorded in the company of US jazz stars Buck Clayton and Buddy Tate, captures Marshall's light, secure singing style and received a Juno Award as 'good music product LP'. Marshall had earlier recorded for Monogram in 1949.
- Her second career, as an actress, began in 1956 at Toronto's Crest Theatre and included dramatic and musical roles in stage, radio, and TV productions such as the revue Cindy-Ella (1964), CBC radio's 'The Amen Corner' (1970), and CBS-CTV's Night Heat in the mid-1980s. She continued to sing on occasion - eg, at the ACTRA Awards in 1977, and for Freedom Fest (Harbourfront) in 1988.
- Marshall is remembered as one of Canadian television's earliest stars, and as a pioneer among black Canadian performers.
- She died in Toronto in 1996.
- Scope and Content
- This item is a group portrait of, front row (left to right): Phyllis Marshall and Sylvia Schwartz. Everyone else in this photograph is unidentified (possibly musicians).
- Notes
- This image has no proofs.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 80, series 4 for a portrait of Phyllis Marshall by Sylvia Schwartz.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the Mehr and Sapera families of Toronto visiting Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge) for a picnic. The photo depicts the group seated on the grass in front of a house.
- Pictured from left to right are: Matt Sapera, [unidentified], Pincus Mehr (in behind), Leonard Mehr, [unidentified woman], [unidentified women], [unidentified man standing], [unidentified woman], Flo Sapera (in front), Ethel Mehr.
- Subjects
- Families
- Picnics
- 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
- Galt (Cambridge, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 38
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 38
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1922]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the Mehr family and friends gathered for a picnic at Jackson's Point. Identified individuals include: Lucille Mehr, Bibi Hutner, Helen Pullan, Bernice Mehr, Merle Rosenberg, Melba Hutner, Beulah Hutner.
- Notes
- See accession record for exact locations of individuals.
- Subjects
- Families
- Picnics
- 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
- Jacksons Point (Georgina, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 28
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 28
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph taken at Leonard Mehr's bar mitzvah in Toronto. Pictured are:
- Back row, left to right: Mendel Mehr (father), Ethel, Pincus, Bessie (mother).
- Front row, left to right: Lucille, Bernice, Leonard.
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- 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.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 24
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 24
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a group seated on the steps to the Mehr cottage at Jackson's Point, Ontario. Pictured from left to right: [unidentified], [unidentified], Lucille Mehr, Ethel Mehr, [unidentified], Ella Fremes, and Bernice Dunkelman.
- Subjects
- Cottages
- 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
- Jackson's Point (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1898]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm
- Custodial History
- This item is a photograph of Bessie and Mendel Mehr of Toronto, taken in Buffalo, New York.
- 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
- This photograph is cracked in several places and scratched.
- Places
- Buffalo (N.Y.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 14
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 14
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 11 Feb. 1918
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a studio portrait of Bessie and Mendel Mehr, taken in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Mendel
- Mehr, Bessie
- United States
- 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.
- Places
- Mount Clemens (Mich.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2016-11-23
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-11-23
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 negative ; b&w ; 10 x 12 cm
- Date
- [192-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accessin consists of one copy negative of Sadie Goodman. She is wearing a military-style uniform.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 25
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Dec. 1953
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 18 cm, 13 x 9 cm.
- Admin History/Bio
- Sadie Oelbaum (née Margulies) was the wife of Julius Irving Oelbaum and had two daughters, Dorothy Koven and Helen Simpson. They were married on 3 June 1923.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Sadie Oelbaum.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 37, series 4-1, item 4 for a family portrait of the Oelbaums.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 17
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 17
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of three members of the Mehr family in front of their family home with Baness and Miriam Goldblatt.
- Name Access
- Goldblatt, R
- Goldblatt, Miriam
- Mehr family
- Subjects
- Families
- 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
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 514
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 514
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Custodial History
- This item is a portrait of Ethel and Leib Hundert, taken in Czechoslovakia.
- Notes
- Acquired on June 22, 1975.
- Name Access
- Hundert, Ethel
- Hundert, Leib
- 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.
- Places
- Czechoslovakia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Levine and Cass family fonds
- Miscellaneous family members series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 25
- Series
- 17
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 8 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Unknown.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a graduation portrait of Ethel C. taken at a studio in Altoona, Pa. Photo could be of Ethel Gold, the eldest daughter of David and Hannah Cass.
- Notes
- Mounted in card holder
- Inscribed on card holder: "With Love Ethel C."
- Photographer: Shaeffer, Altoona
- Name Access
- C., Ethel
- Gold, Ethel
- 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.
- Places
- Altoona (Pa.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Leonard, Bernice and Lucille Mehr standing in the backyard of the Mehr family home at 374 Markham St., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Mehr, Leonard
- Mehr, Bernice
- Mehr, Lucille
- Subjects
- Children
- 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.
- Places
- Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2005-11-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-11-5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one photograph of Sadie and Nathan Friedman standing in a field at Crystal's Resort in Pontypool around the summer of 1930.
- Administrative History
- Nathan Friedman (b. 1906-d. 1954) was born in Poland and Sadie (Book) Friedman (b. 1911- d. 1991) was born in Hamilton, ON. They were married in Toronto in June 1929. Nathan worked as a furrier in Toronto. They began vacationing in Pontypool during the early 1930s and originally rented a loft in the Crystal's barn. Later they rented a cabin at Crystal's Resort. The donor, Jerry Friedman, is the son of Nathan and Sadie.
- Pontypool was a popular summer resort spot for vacationing Jews from the 1940s to the 1960s. The area was relatively cheap and had a pond as its swimming spot. Kosher meals would often be brought in for the vacationers who arrived on two trains daily from Union station. Charlie and Surah Crystal were the owners of several resort cabins resort that was popular amongst the Jewish vacationers.
- Subjects
- Charities
- Outdoor recreation
- Vacations
- Name Access
- Friedman, Nathan
- Friedman, Sadie
- Places
- Pontypool, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 78
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- graphic material (electronic)
- Date
- [189-]-1997
- Physical Description
- 15 cm of textual records
- 176 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- 2 photographs (jpg) : b&w
- Admin History/Bio
- Sadie Stren (1915-2014) was born on April 19, 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. Her father and mother had come from a small town in Russia. Samuel Goldberg, her father, arrived to stay with family in Brantford, Ontario in 1910 and began working as a peddler. He moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1912 where he worked for the Ford Motor Company and later owned a confectionary store. Emma, Sadie’s mother, came from Russia to reunite with Samuel after he began living in Detroit and the couple married and started a family there.
- Sadie grew up in a predominately Jewish neighbourhood in Detroit with her parents and her sister Sarah. She graduated from what is now Wayne State University and worked as a social studies teacher in Detroit for approximately 10 years, until she married at age 31. Sadie first met her husband, Maurice "Maurie" Strenkovsky (1910-1995), while visiting relatives in Brantford. By the time the two had met, Maurie was going by the last name Stren, although it is not certain when he began to do so. He served in the Second World War and corresponded with Sadie during their courtship. The two married in 1947, five years after meeting. The couple initially lived in Detroit, where their son David was born on August 28, 1948, but soon moved to Brantford, where Sadie gave birth to a daughter, Patti, on August 8, 1949. Maurie became a manufacturer of surgical dressing and continued in this profession until his retirement.
- When Sadie first moved to Brantford, she joined several Jewish women’s organizations, including Hadassah. She continued to be actively involved in both Jewish and non-Jewish community organizations for the remainder of her life. She ran and taught the Beth David Sunday school in Brantford for many years, and in 1976, was honoured for her work as Sunday school supervisor by the Beth David Sisterhood. During her time in Brantford, Sadie served on the board of directors for eight different organizations, and was the president of four. She was a member of the board of directors for the Family Service Bureau and was elected president in 1966. She was also a past president of the University Women’s Club and a former board member of the YM-YWCA. Her husband was quite active in the community as well. Maurie Stren’s commitments included serving as president of B’nai B’rith Brantford from 1965-1966 and as District Governor of the Lions Club from 1963-64, among other things.
- Upon moving to Toronto, Sadie became a member of the Baycrest Women’s Auxiliary and volunteered at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Aphasia Institute.
- Sadie was an amateur historian who served as the Brantford Jewish community's archivist and historian for a number of years. She had been collecting sources of Brantford Jewish history in her home since at least the 1970s in order to assemble the history of Brantford's community. Sadie was also an author who wrote about the history of the Brantford community, spoke at conferences, and was a contributor to the Canadian Jewish Historical Society Journal in 1981. She passed away on December 9, 2014.
- Custodial History
- The records were donated by Sadie Stren in five different transfers from 1976-2006. The first accession was received as a part of the small communities project in 1976 and included only photographs. Subsequent accessions included photographs and textual documents relating to both Sadie’s family and the Brantford community. Sadie is an author and she acquired some of the materials when researching the history of the Brantford community.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of material created and collected by Sadie Stren related to the Brantford Jewish community, as both a member of the community and an author researching its history. Among the records are newspaper and article clippings, correspondence, research notes, records of the Brantford Hebrew Association, miscellaneous printed and published material, Hadassah minutes, records related to Congregation Beth David and its Hebrew school and photographs.
- The Brantford Hebrew Association records include 3 ledger books which span the years between 1909 to 1952, legal documents for the Association including the original letters patent incorporating the Brantford Hebrew Association in 1911.
- Notes
- Some of the photographs are modern copies of older photographs.
- Some early accessions contained photocopies of orginal documents that were eventually donated in later transfers. These photocopies were culled.
- Many photographs were described at the item level at the time they were accessioned, but there are quite a few photographs in the fonds which have not yet been described in detail.
- Name Access
- Stren, Sadie, 1915-2014
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Volunteers
- Related Material
- For additional material related to the Brantford Jewish community see also accession #1978-11-4, accession #2009-2-5, oral history #AC91, and accession #2004-5-71.
- Creator
- Stren, Sadie, 1915-
- Places
- Brantford (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1976-6-9
- 1977-5-6
- 1978-11-3
- 2005-11-10
- 2006-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 1980-12-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1980-12-8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1917
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a photograph of the Toronto Zionist parade to celebrate the Balfour Declaration along with a copy negative and copy print.
- Descriptive Notes
- See photo #4689 (accession 1988-3-3) for another photograph of this parade.
- Subjects
- Parades
- Name Access
- Balfour Declaration
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-100
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-100
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 11 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1929-1953
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of photographs of the Kane family, Camp Naivelt, Young Maccabees softball team at Camp Camperdown and other locations, and school photographs.
- Photo Caption (001): Father, mother, and Brenda at Camp Naivelt, Brampton, Ont, 1953. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, accession 2004-5-100.
- Photo Caption (002): Girl at Camp Naivelt, Brampton, Ont., 28 July 1953. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, accession 2004-5-100.
- Name Access
- Camp Camperdown (near Collingwood, Ont.)
- Camp Naivelt (Brampton, Ont.)
- Places
- Brampton, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-6-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-6-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10 cm of textual records and graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1955]-[ca. 1987]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of materials related primarily to a Yiddish theatre production entitled Shver tzu Zein a Yid (Hard to be a Jew) by Shalom Aleichem co-starring Ben Lennick and Chayele Luxenburg. The play was produced by Sylvia Grimson for the Yiddish Renascence Theatre and opened for a three-day run at the Crest Theatre located at 551 Mount Pleasant Road, in May 1975. Materials include photographs, critiques, letters of support, and reviews. Photographs of ‘The Heritage Players’ actors include Ron Barry, Ben Lennick, Sam Stein, William Pevzner, Reva Ockrant, Paul Orsini (1972), Terry Shonblum, Leib Lensky, Chayele Luxenburg, Jank Zaifman, Shimmy Plener, Danny Freeedman. In addition, there is a publicity still of Golda Meir greeting performers after an unknown stage performance. A selection of photographs by Gadi Hoz and Maurice Seymour, New York.
- Administrative History
- Sylvia Fistell Grimson was born in Montreal ca. 1920s (she was never registered at birth) and grew up in Toronto. As a single mother of one son, Grimson worked for several years in factories and government offices before opening an antique store at Yonge and Wellesley, which she ran for ten years. Grimson taught ballet and modern dance, wrote poetry, and always had a passion for theatre, Yiddish culture, and the need for Jewish self-expression. Her dream was to bring Yiddish professional theatre to Toronto. In 1972, Grimson founded the Yiddish Renascence Theatre (which later became the Toronto Jewish Arts Theatre), for which she produced the plays Shver tzu Zein a Yid and The Three Lives of Adam. She has also performed in other plays such as Come Blow Your Horn and with The Heritage Players. She continues to live in Toronto, write poetry, and is also working on a book.
- Subjects
- Theater, Yiddish
- Name Access
- Grimson, Sylvia
- Yiddish Renascence Theatre
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 9 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1943-1977
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material related to the Belleville Jewish community, in particular, the Schwab family and the Sons of Jacob Synagogue. It includes one copy of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue dedication book, a programme from brotherhood week and several photographs of the Schwab family and other members of the community.
- The photographs are as follows:
- 1. Ben Safe and Julius Abramsky holding a large fish (1943).
- 2. Sid Rose, Ted Schwab and Art Black (1947).
- 3. Mike Levine, Paul Yanover, Ben Yanover, Eve Yanover, Vera Levine, Nellie Schwab, Sylvia Schwab and Stephen Schwab on the beach (1948).
- 4. Stephen Schwab's bar mitzvah portrait (1952).
- 5. Belleville Sisterhood group portrait (ca. 1960). Pictured, top row, left to right: Mrs. Pollak, unidentified, unidentified, Niomi Spiegel, Carol Albert, Cathy Mazer, Hilda Tuchmayer, unidentified, Mrs. Sylvia Freeman. Middle row, left to right: unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Blooma Tobe, unidentified, Becky Shulman, Mrs. Gittleman, Mrs. Goldberg, Mrs. Esther Yanover, unidentified. Front row, left to right: Nellie Schwab, Sue Black, Jennie Nemtin, Bernice Mandel, Flo Yanover, Lil Albert.
- 6. Sue and Art Black (ca. 1965).
- 7. Copy family portrait of Theodore, Stephen, Nellie, and Sylvia Schwab (24 October 1952).
- 8. Michael Basch with the Torah scrolls at his bar mitzvah (1977).
- 9. Michael Basch at the bimah during his bar mitzvah (1977).
- Administrative History
- The Schwab family were one of the earliest Jewish families in Belleville. Theodore Schwab owned a stationary store.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Families
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Basch, Sylvia
- Places
- Belleville (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-2-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-2-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- [ca. 3000 negatives] : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
- Date
- 1954-1959
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of approximately 3000 portrait negatives and prints taken by Sylvia Schwartz. The photographs depict members of the Jewish community, jazz musicians, and a small number of non-Jews as well. Within each box, the records are divided up into envelopes, which include anywhere from one to twenty negatives and occasionally a small number of prints.
- Custodial History
- The negatives were in the possession of Herb Solway, Sylvia Schwartz's nephew until they were donated to the Archives.
- Administrative History
- Sylvia Schwartz was born in 1914 in Toronto. Her parents were Joseph and Gertrude, who were respectively born in the United States and Austria. She had two older sisters, Fannie and Rosetta (Ruth). Her family moved to Toronto around 1903. Joseph was a furier who eventually set up his own business, J. Schwartz & Co. Ltd., a fur manufacturing company on Madison Avenue. He later became a partner in the Park Plaza Hotel on Avenue Road.
Unlike her siblings, Sylvia was a dwarf, who led a successful life despite her physical limitations. She became a prominent portrait photographer in Toronto and owned a studio on Grenville Road. She began her career during the 1940s, capturing images of families, servicemen during the war as well as brides. She eventually carved out a niche for herself mid-career, specializing in children's portraiture. In addition to her professional activities, she was also recognized for her commitment to Communism. She befriended many famous American artists who were supporters of the cause, such as Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Cab Caloway, travelling across the border frequently to attend meetings and work with her American comrades.
In 1976 she set up a special children's book award to honour her late sister Ruth, who was a respected Toronto bookseller. In 2004, six years after Sylvia's death, her family changed the name of the award to the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards. The awards are administered by the Ontario Arts Council which selects the school and juries. The Ontario Arts Foundation, the Schwartz Foundation and the Canadian Booksellers Association, in turn, are responsible for producing the shortlist of books for the jury.
- Subjects
- Photographers
- Name Access
- Schwartz, Sylvia, 1914-1998
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Portraits sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-1
- Item
- 17
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 10 x 13 cm and 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Sylvia Schwartz.
- Name Access
- Schwartz, Sylvia, 1914-1998
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Portraits sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-1
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 9 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Sylvia Schwartz.
- Notes
- This negative has two images on it.
- Name Access
- Schwartz, Sylvia, 1914-1998
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Records are closed for conservation reasons.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
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