- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 7
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]-1939
- Physical Description
- 30 photographs : b&w (4 negatives) ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- Gordon Melamed (6 Apr. 1927-16 Nov. 2004) was born to Morris and Zena Melamed. The Melamed family was originally from Russia. Morris Melamed served in the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. He was married to Zena Melamed and they had eleven children, Gordon being the only boy. Morris Melamed owned a dry goods store and the family were active members of the Toronto Jewish community.
- Custodial History
- Although signed agreements exist for the acquisition of this material, much of this fonds was never assigned an accession number as it was one of the very first donations to the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region Archives on 11 Dec. 1973, 9 July 1974 and 13 March 1979.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs documenting the extended Melamed family and their friends.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Gordon, 1927-2004
- Creator
- Melamed, Gordon, 1927-2004
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Photograph by Ben Goldberg.
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Sarah Axelrod in winter clothing, holding a music case. Sarah Axelrod was Gordon Melamed's cousin. The photograph was taken by Ben Goldberg of Empire Studio, who was a friend of the Melamed family.
- Name Access
- Axelrod, Sarah
- Goldberg, Ben
- 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
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Lily Melamed, Gordon Melamed's sister.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Lily
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1909
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Lily Melamed, Gordon Melamed's sister. The photograph was taken in Russia. Lily is wearing a linen coat and bonnet.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Lily
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Goldberg, friends of the Melamed family, taken prior to 1917 at the Empire Studios on Bathurst Street in Toronto. The portrait was originally used for a Rosh Hashanah greeting card.
- Name Access
- Goldberg, Ben
- Subjects
- Married people
- Portraits
- Rosh ha-Shanah cards
- 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
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1914 and 1918]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Azriel Melamed, his wife and child in Russia, taken during the First World War.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Azriel
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1907
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Gordon Melamed's mother, Zena, in Russia.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Zena
- Subjects
- Mothers
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 7
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Morris Melamed taken in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Morris
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Annie Ackerman, presumably a friend of the Melamed family, taken at Empire Studio in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Ackerman, Annie
- 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
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Tootsie Goldberg, the daughter of Ben Goldberg, a friend of the Melamed family. The portrait captures Tootsie as a baby, sitting in a wicker stroller.
- Name Access
- Goldberg, Ben
- Goldberg, Tootsie
- Subjects
- Infants
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Rachel (Melamed) Trachtenberg, taken in Toronto. Rachel was Gordon Melamed's aunt.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Rachel
- Trachtenberg, Rachel
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 11
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [191-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Louis and Sos'l (Sosil) Melamed as children, taken in Toronto. Louis and Sos'l were Gordon Melamed's cousins.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Louis
- Melamed, Sos'l
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- Good.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the Brunswick Avenue Talmud Torah first graduating class.
- Front row seated on floor, left to right: Jack (Jacob) Sacks (Sachovitz); [unidentified - killed in WWII?]
- Front row, seated on chairs, left to right: Shoshana Dobushin in Hashomer Hatzair uniform (her father was a Jewish bookbinder on Harbord Street); Florence Hurwitz (lived on Wells Hill); Ida Greenberg (family was from Romania); Moshe Frank; Sadie Kanowitch; Goldie Sacks (sister of Jack); Bea Swartz (Rifka) (married Shamai Ogden; borrowed Aunt Frances Shafer's clothes to take photo. The Shafers came from Fort William in the 1920s and lived on Palmerston Blvd).
- Second row, standing, left to right: Helen Peltz; [? Torno]; Miriam Parl; Lillian Swartz (sister to Bea); [unknown]; Bessie Melamed (sister to Gordon and Lily Hedich. The family had ten girls and one boy); Miriam Perl.
- Back row, standing, left to right: Archie Shulman (lived at Brunswick and Harbord); [unknown]; Abraham Joel Zeldin (his father was chazan. They lived on Euclid Ave.); [Ephraim ?]; [Brother to blonde boy in front row on right (perhaps also killed in WWII)]; [? Fine]; Gordon Donsky.
- Notes
- Identified by Beatrice Swartz Ogden, 19 April 1995.
- Name Access
- Dobushin, Shoshana
- Donsky, Gordon
- Fine
- Frank, Moshe
- Greenberg, Ida
- Hurwitz, Florence
- Kanowitch, Sadie
- Melamed, Bessie
- Ogden, Shamai
- Parl, Miriam
- Peltz, Helen
- Perl, Miriam
- Sacks, Goldie
- Sacks, Jacob
- Shafer, Frances
- Shulman, Archie
- Swartz, Beatrice
- Swartz, Lillian
- Toronto Talmud Torah
- Torno
- Zeldin
- Subjects
- Students
- 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
- Brunswick Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a class picture of a Landsdowne Public School class.
- Name Access
- Lansdowne Public School
- Subjects
- Students
- 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
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 14
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1906
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Morris Melamed with his Russian army unit. Morris is pictured in in the second row on the far right.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Morris
- Subjects
- Soldiers
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 15
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1903
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Morris Melamed in a Russian army uniform taken during the Russo-Japanese War in 1903.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Morris
- Subjects
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
- Soldiers
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 16
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of students of William Houston Public School, standing on the staircase of the school.
- Name Access
- William Houston Public School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Public schools
- Students
- 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
- Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 17
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a class photograph of students in front of the school fence. Gordon Melamed is seated in the front row holding the slate.
- Name Access
- Clinton Street Public School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Public schools
- Students
- 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
- Clinton Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Lily Melamed was married to Carl Herlick.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Lily Melamed.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Lilly
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 19
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Rosh Hashanah photograph.
- Subjects
- Infants
- Rosh ha-Shanah
- 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
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 20
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- David Greenberg was an electrical engineer, who married at the age of nineteen. He later became a chiropracter in Toronto. His father, Louis Greenberg, was a tailor whose shop was located in the Jarvis and Parliament area on Queen Street East. The family originally belonged to the Berkeley Street Synagogue, but there was no minyan for David's bar mitzvah and they moved to the McCaul Street Synagogue. David's stepmother's name was Sadie.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of David Greenberg, his father Louis Greenberg and his stepmother Sadie. The picture was taken for David's bar mitzvah on October 13, 1935.
- Name Access
- Greenberg, David
- Greenberg, Louis
- Greenberg, Sadie
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 21
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Gordon Melamed's paternal grandmother. The photograph was likely taken in Russia.
- Subjects
- Grandmothers
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 22
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Morris Melamed, taken in Russia.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Morris
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 23
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [190-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Morris Melamed with his sister, taken in Russia.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Morris
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 24
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society was founded in 1913 to provide aid to members of the Jewish community.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a composite photograph of the past presidents of the Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society.
- Name Access
- Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Societies
- 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
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 25
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1916]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Lily Melamed holding a staff or cane.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Lily
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 26
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1919 or 1920]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a young girl standing in front of the doors to the Ontario Dry Goods & Dress Goods store on Spadina Avenue, which was owned by the Melamed family. The Toronto Jewish City Directory lists the location of the store as 394 Spadina Avenue.
- Name Access
- Ontario Dry Goods
- Subjects
- Dry-goods
- Storefronts
- 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
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions