Part Of

Cowan family fonds

Level

File

Fonds

102

File

50

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Date

[ca.1976]-[ca.1996]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Rebecca Cowan is the daughter of Saul Cowan's son Michael and his wife Nancy.

Scope and Content

File consists of a photograph of Rebecca as an infant and a programme of a concert titled "Musica Orbium Requiem op. 9", in which she sung as a soprano.

Subjects

Sopranos (Singers)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Family photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

11

File

1

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[190-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm

Notes

Postcard photo.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Samuels family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

9

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1895]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rebecca Samuels taken in Toronto.

Notes

Cabinet card.

Photographer: W. H. Dame, 330 1/2 Yonge St., Toronto.

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

Levine and Cass family fonds

Samuels family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

9

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1895]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rebecca Samuels taken at a studio in Toronto.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Photographer: F. H. Moses, Citizen's Photo Studio, 301 Yonge Street, Toronto.

There are two copies of this photograph.

Name Access

Samuels, Rebecca

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

Passenger Names

Haberman, Rebecca

Page Number

702

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

11

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[ca.1900]-[196-?]

Physical Description

4.5 cm of textual records

24 photographs : b&w and sepia ; 21 x 13 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Rebecca Kamarner (née Huenstein) (1882-1975) was born in Russia and lived there until her early adulthood. She married Harry Kamarner (1877- 1962) in 1902 and immigrated to Toronto around 1904. Mrs. Chava Kamarner (1847-1929), possibly Harry’s mother, may have immigrated at a later date and lived with the family in Canada. Rebecca and Harry had three children: Bessie (b. 1903), Anne (b. 1906?), and Jack (1907?-1986). Harry and Rebecca lived on 35 Bellevue Avenue in 1925 and later resided at 72 Barton Street.

From the date of her arrival as an immigrant to Canada, Mrs. Kamarner was involved in charitable work through such organizations as The Hebrew Women’s Convalescent Home established in 1936 (of which she was the President and founder), The Hebrew Maternity Aid Society, and The Women’s Auxiliary Toronto Hebrew Free School. During the First and Second World Wars she was actively involved in social aid and the sponsorship of orphans, and she worked as a nurse during the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and had its greatest effect on the Jewish community in Toronto in 1919 and 1920. She was one of the earliest members of the Toronto Hadassah-Wizo (Schamira Levine chapter) and was also actively involved in fundraising for the Women’s Auxiliary of The New Mount Sinai Hospital, of which she was listed as a charter member. She served on the Board of Directors of The Jewish Home for the Aged and was a preeminent name in the promotion of convalescent care and social advocacy for the disadvantaged throughout her lifetime.

Harry, Nathan "Nutta" (d. 1956), and Louis Kamarnar were men’s clothing and furnishings retailers and owned the Merchant’s Clothing Co. store on 131 Queen Street West. Harry, his son Jack, and his son-in-law Harry Granger, were also affiliated with the Judean Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order.

Bessie Kamarner married Sam Robins (b.1893) in 1922 and they lived together at 273 Queen Street East. Anne Kamarner was married to Harry Graner (d. 1986) in 1931. Jack Kamarner lived in Toronto and married Jeanne (née Rubin). They had two daughters, Ann and Nancy.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of family photographs, a scrapbook, and other textual records, both of a personal nature and those relating to the volunteer work done by Rebecca Kamarner. These records document her community social work, her affiliation with the Women’s Auxiliary, and her fundraising efforts for the Hebrew Women’s Convalescent Home, later the Mount Sinai Convalescent Home, in Toronto.

Name Access

Kamarner, Rebecca, 1882-1975

Subjects

Immigrants--Canada

Volunteers

Related Material

see also clipping, re. photo #2503, from accession 1978-6-4

Arrangement

The fonds has been arranged in five files: the first file is of family photographs; the second contains one passport; the third contains institutional programmes; the fourth is of personal invitations and correspondence; and, the fifth file contains Rebecca Kamarner's scrapbook and clippings from that scrapbook. These are all kept together in one box and each file is housed in a separate folder.

Creator

Kamarner, Rebecca, 1882-1975

Places

Russia

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Family photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

11

File

1

Item

18

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 5 cm ; on matte ; 16 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

This is a posed photograph of Rebecca Kamarner seated in an ornate high-backed chair.

Notes

Photographer's inscription on matte reads Thompson [?--possibly "Bros".], 177½ Yonge St. Toronto.

Physical Condition

The photograph that is pasted on the matte is not squarely trimmed and the matte has become scuffed.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Level

File

Fonds

11

File

5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[1927-196-?]

Physical Description

1 v.

Scope and Content

The scrapbook includes numerous press clippings about The 17th Anniversary of the Hebrew Women’s Convalescent Home celebration dinner in honour of Mrs. Kamarner and the 50th wedding anniversary of Harry and Rebecca Kamarner; photographs; notes of thanks and recognition from Lillian Freiman, Mrs. Samuel (Jimmie) Norris, Mrs. Israel (Ruth) Shapiro, Teme Shapiro, A. Posluns, Dora Till, David Croll and Ada Adelberg; and, other articles in English and Hebrew (mostly material from the 1950s). The file also includes four loose clippings pulled from the scrapbook and put into a separate file folder.

Subjects

Scrapbooks

Physical Condition

Some of the pages of the scrapbook have come apart from the binding.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Koffler Centre of the Arts fonds

Art exhibitions series

Level

File

Fonds

100

Series

8

File

47

Material Format

textual record

Date

1996

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a catalogue entitled AKA Canada.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1682

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy photograph of Rebecca ("Zelda") Markson, aged 7, of Alexandria, Ontario.

Notes

Original photograph by D. Donovan, Alexandria.

Name Access

Markson, Rebecca

Markson, Zelda

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

Alexandria (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-6-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1892

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 4 cm

Admin History/Bio

Ida would have been seven years old when this photograph was taken. Rebecca Schaeffer was likely a family friend or relative.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait photograph of Rebecca Schaeffer and Ida Lewis as young girls, posed with a small tea set. The photograph was taken in Pittsburgh. Ida is standing on the right.

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.

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Family photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

11

File

1

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1912

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

The subjects of this photograph are, left to right: Anne, Rebecca and Bessie, with the baby, Jack, seated on Rebecca's lap. They are posed casually outside. The girls have bows in their hair and Jack is wearing a belt over a large white shirt. There is a kind of broad-leafed bush behind them and they appear to be in the shade of a sunny park. Rebecca is seated in an engraved highbacked chair with arm rests.

Notes

Photo printed on postcard.

Physical Condition

Appears to have been torn from an album of some kind in which the original backing has partially adhered to the photograph.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4814

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1970]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original print of Rebecca Garshowitz of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Subjects

Portraits

Places

Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.)

Accession Number

1984-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Samuels family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

9

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1890]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a wedding portrait of Rebecca and Joe Samuels'. It was taken at a studio in Ottawa.

Notes

Cabinet card.

Photographer: J. H. Bunting and Co., Corbank and Wellington Streets, Ottawa.

There are two copies of this photograph.

Name Access

Samuels, Joe

Samuels, Rebecca

Subjects

Married people

Portraits

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

Ottawa (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Dr. Alexander Brown fonds

Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

95

Series

2

File

49

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1970

Physical Description

1 print : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm on paper 24 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of a negative print likely of a plaque which states, "Room 27 / In Memory of / Joseph David & Rebecca Samuels / Dedicated by their Families / June 17, 1970".

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3778

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1914]

Physical Description

1 photograph : sepia toned

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait taken at a studio with a backdrop of Niagara Falls. Rebecca is on the far left and her brother Louis is in the middle. The other two individuals are either family members or friends. It was likely taken before her husband and Louis enlisted in the military during the First World War.

Name Access

Ross, Lou

Rotenberg, Lou

Subjects

Brothers and sisters

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

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3776

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1934]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rebecca Berger at her parents' home at 90 Denison Avenue.

Name Access

Berger, Rebecca

Denison Avenue

Subjects

Women

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

Denison Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Family photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

11

File

1

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1900]

Physical Description

1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 7 cm on matte 11 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This photo was taken in Russia before Rebecca Kamarner's immigration to Canada.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Family photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

11

File

1

Item

24

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

As in photo #23, Rebecca and Harry are standing in front of 72 Barton St. They appear to be somewhat older than in the other photo, however.

Physical Condition

The photo has been trimmed unevenly by hand.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1213

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1921]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of Samuel and Rebecca Weinberg with their son, Bernard.

Name Access

Weinberg, Bernard

Weinberg, Rebecca

Weinberg, Samuel (Zelie)

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

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4764

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1927]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

For further information, see accession record.

Name Access

Alexandroff, Boris

Alexandroff, Rebecca

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

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-3-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1207

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1905

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 14 x 10 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a studio photograph or Rebecca Weinberg with her son Bernard, who is three years old at the time of the photo.

Name Access

Weinberg, Rebecca

Subjects

Mothers

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

Poland

Accession Number

1977-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rebecca Kamarner fonds

Family photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

11

File

1

Item

23

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This snapshot is taken in front of the family home at 72 Barton St., Toronto. The grandchild could possibly be one of Jack Kamarner's daughters, Anne or Nancy.

Accession Number

1986-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Simons, Sam, Tobe, Israel, Rebecca, Isaac, Rose, Philip

Page Number

202

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Level

Item

Item

1214

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of Samuel and Rebecca Weinberg with their son, Bernard on the occasion of his bar mitzvah.

Name Access

Weinberg, Samuel

Weinberg, Rebecca

Weinberg, Bernard

Subjects

Bar mitzvah

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

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2503

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1921

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Name Access

Freiman, Lillian

Kamarner, Rebecca

Subjects

Orphans

Ukrainians--Canada

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

The photograph is ripped and is missing several sections of the image.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-6-4

Source

Archival Descriptions