Minnie Levy Levine photograph album : manuscript.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Levine, Minnie Levy, 1876-1946, compiler.

Contributor:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.

Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Jews.

Genre:

cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Albums.

Photographs.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, American -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2024 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (eBay) (Collectify no. 2024.06.03.00019; 22.414).

Physical Description:

1 volume (36 photographs) : paper, photographs ; 26 x 21 cm + 2 photographs, 1 note

Production:

Minneapolis, after 1877.

Biography/History:

Minnie Levy was born in 1876, before her family's move to Minneapolis around 1887; she married David Levine in September 1897, "both well known in Jewish circles," according to an item in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, 26 September 1897; Minnie's mother, Hannah Levy, lived with Minnie and David in Minneapolis until her death in 1934; David died in 1945 and Minnie died in 1946, survived by their children, Cecelia Levine (1899-1997) and Herschel Lynn Levine (1908-2002).

Summary:

Photograph album with late 19th-century carte-de-visite photographs of family members and friends. The album has 18 leaves designed to hold two carte-de-visite photographs back to back, is bound in leather, and had a metal clasp, now missing. One photograph is inscribed on the verso, "Your sister, Sarah Gittelson" (p. 22; another photograph of her is on p. 4). Sarah Levy (1862-1937) married Simon Gittelson in 1877. Another photograph (p. 27) is inscribed on the verso, "Your mother, Hannah Levy." The other photographs are individual and family portraits of women, men, children, infants, and brides and grooms (p. 17, 34, 35). The Minneapolis-based photography studios represented include Flour City Gallery, G. N. Floyd, Lee Bros., Wm. Matter, Miller, M. Nowack, Oswald Bros., and Theo. A. Sather; one photograph (p. 32) is from Robinson & Roe of Chicago and New York. 2 loose photographs and a note with the faint inscription "M. Levy, March 28, 1891, Minneapolis, Minn." are laid in.

Cited as:

Minnie Levy Levine Photograph Album (MS 56, Codex 053.1). Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.