Once Upon a Time Photographs

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. Below is an archive of previously run photographs, including updated identifications and on-going mysteries. Thank you to everyone who has helped us identify these photographs.

If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 11/07/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1987.196.016

Status: Unidentified. Three unidentified men, n.d.  The man at right is handing a check to the man in the middle while the man on the left looks on.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/31/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1985.159.032

Status: Identified! L-R: 1. Paul Huddles 2.  Robert Stofberg 3.Rabbi Albert Pottaschnick  4.Judge Edgar Silver  5. Albert A. Sugar  6. Mrs. McKeldin  7.  Governor McKeldin 8. Mayor Philip Goodman 9. ? Rosenbaum or Alvin Cohen 10. Solomon Rogers 11. Rabbi Hirsch Heiman standing at Sponsors Dinner to dedicate Study Hall at Talmudical Academy of Baltimore in honor of Governor Theodore R. McKeldin at Governor's Mansion in Annapolis, July 8, 1957.

Identified by Babette Goldschmidt, Selma Frank, Stan Heyman, Mark Rosenfield, Phil Shapiro, Jane Kaufman, Jerry Shavrick, Rina Levy, Judge Edgar Silver, Jerry Esterson, Gloria Kolker Hack, Andrew Cohen, Marian Block, Gordon Salganik, Sheila Manson, and Marilyn Silverstein.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/17/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.145.006

Status: Unidentified. Unidentified woman with school-age boy and baby girl, Carte-de-viste by Bendann Brothers, Baltimore

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/10/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2004.078.021

Status: Partially Identified. Marian Lansburgh and unidentified man.

Identified by Barbara Himmelrich.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/03/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.090.029

Status: Partially Identified. Har Sinai kindergarten and 1st grade class of 1940-1941. Teachers: unidentified. Back row (L-R), Eddie Furman, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Bunny Wetzler (Singer), Judy Carliner, unidentified, unidentified; Middle row (L-R) unidentified, unidentified, Ina Mae Folb, Elaine Kaufman, Barbara (Babs) Hankin, Harriet Kahn, unidentified, unidentified. Front row (L-R) all unidentified except for last now on right, Gordon

Identified by Bunny Wetzler Singer.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 09/26/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.090.018

Status: Unidentified. Photograph of large group of unidentified women dressed as cowgirls on stage at Har Sinai 105th Anniversary.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 09/19/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.090.006

Status: Identified! Rabbi Abraham Shusterman and his wife, Lillian Shusterman

Identified by Sarah Lee Jacobson.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 09/12/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.090.002

Status: Identified! Har Sinai Brotherhood event. Left to right: unidentified man with bugle, Martin Dannenberg, Rabbi Shusterman is in the middle with his hands in his pockets, Mervin Shpritz or “Bub” Wilson wearing a neck tie and Roy Strassburger with his hands clasped together.

Identified by Emily Levitas, Sarah Lee Jacobson, and Adeline Donner.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 09/05/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.090.001

Status: Identified! Members of the Reformed Brotherhoods Summer Retreat sitting on the steps of the White House at Camp Airy. Back row, 2nd from left: Sidney Chernak Back row peaking out behind a very tall man is Sidney Wolk. 2nd row from back, third from left: David Buckner wearing glasses,4th from left: Julian Rosenstock with a mop on his head.  3rd row from back: 4th from left: Phil Bluefeld with dark-rimmed glasses and a moustache. Rabbi Abraham Shusterman is standing at the end of the row wearing a light shirt and his arm crossed in front of him. 2nd row from bottom: 4th from left: Al Bloom wearing glasses and a white shirt, 7th from left is Herman Kerngood (on right end). Diagonally behind Herman Kerngood is Merv Hirsch wearing a plaid shirt, glasses and straw hat. Front row 6th from left is Marvin Mandel.

Identified by Zelda Zabin, Howard Schevitz, Mark Rosenfield, George Rosenstock, and Steven Bland.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/29/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.53.233

Status: Identified! Frieda (London) Chapnick.

Identified by Shelley (Chapnick) London and Doll (Myra) Gershon.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/22/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.233

Status: Unidentified. Three young children sitting at a craft table together during a Thanksgiving event staffed by NCJW members at Sinai Hospital, October 1968.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/15/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.303

Status: Identified! Left to right: Anna Dubinsky, Beverly Kirson Fine, Dora Silber, and Inge (Goldschmidt) Lynn.

Identified by Rosalie Okun,  Marian Block, Anonymous, Rosalie Abrams, Jerry Fine, Evelyn Krohn, Amy Harris, Norma Fedder, Inge Lynn,  Dr. Elliott Berg, Oscar Schabb, Rudolph Cohen, Barry Dubin, and Ilene Wieselftheir.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/08/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.298

Status: Still Trying to Narrow Down the Choices! Clockwise: Carole Chaimson Sibel (blonde in the front);  Andrea Kellert or Sudsy Gann wearing the embroidered dress; Gloria Myers or Betty Liebman wearing striped shirt; Dorothy Baker, Esther Greenberg or Phyllis Attman wearing the white dress; and either Mildred Watner or Grace Abramowitz

Identified by Burt Gold, Anonymous, Mark Rosenfield, Sue Kohn, Elaine Kaufman Sirota, Jeanne Berger, Carole Sibel, and Virginia Shuger.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/01/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.290

Status: Partially Identified. Tippy Bavar (left).

Identified by Alvin Levy.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 07/25/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.129

Status: Unidentified.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 07/18/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.126

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times:07/11/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.041

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of five women working at the NCJW Council Thrift Shop or a Donor Pledge Drive in Baltimore, n.d.  L-R: Mahsee Klein is standing on the left holding a telephone; Margie Gilbert is second from left; unidentified, and Ruth Ross standing on the right wearing a white dress, Vella Rosenthal Potash is in the front, wearing the dark sleeveless dress.

Identitfied by Marcia Hoffman, Jimmy Potash, Vella Potash, Carol Sibel, Bonnie Fox, Maxine Cohen, Melissa Lenet, Fay Silberg, Ruth Ross, Lee Mintz, Florence Coplan, Lois Rosenfield, and Faith Schreiber Feibgold.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times:07/03/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.002.012

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times:06/27/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.002.009

Status: Unidentified

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/20/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2001.100.011

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of members of Tikvah Youth Group at an unknown event, n.d. (L-R) Ralph David, Eric Sachs, Inge Lauer (David), Hilda Mann, unidentified, Gisela Miller, Ernest Bravman, Marian Stern (Strauss), Lottie Cassel (Hirshfeld) and Mark Adler.

Identified by Karen Kanefsky, Margaret Stern, and Marian Stern Strauss.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/13/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2000.093.013

Status: Identified! Black and white copy print photograph of Simon Helig (left), Abe Flax (center) and Morris Groh sitting outside on a bench holding Torahs at the dedication of Congregation of Israel, Pokomoke, MD, Decmeber 12, 1948. Standing behind Abe Flax is his sister, Marie Flax Levy. Standing next to the bench is ? Rodbell. Standing on the right edge of the photograph is Nathaniel Willet.

Identified by Ilene Wolf.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/06/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.147.007.003

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/30/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.068.023

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Joseph Silberman, Jack Land and Jake Scherr, in suits, sitting on lawn chairs at an unknown event, n.d.  Photo may have been taken at the Jewish Laymen's Institute annual meeting at Camp Wohelo in Waynesboro, PA.

Identified by Jordan Bloom, Amy Silberman, and K. B. Rosenberg.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/23/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1988.046.009

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/16/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1987.065.003

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Gertrude Goldstrom Zamoiski (Gigi) standing in a yard holding a small mouth bass from it's mouth, at Wabanaki Lodge in Monmouth, Maine, n.d.

Identified by Lynn Weisberg and Clair Zamoiski Segal.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/09/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.053.275

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/02/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.053.183

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/25/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.002.014

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Winnie Levin seated next to a pool at her weekend estate home on Campfield Road in the 1940s.

Identified by Irene Garfeld Palter, Paul Kramer, and Rose Ginsberg.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/04/18/08 and 03/28/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1986.016.005

Status: Identified! Schanper Family Circle Banquet at the Gardenia Room at Bluecrest North. Back row (L-R):  Sheldon (Sheiky) Schnaper, Shelly Schnaper, Dr. Nathan Schnaper, Irvin Schnaper, William (Billy) Schnaper [young boy in front of Irvin], Lauren Schnaper, Nat Schein, Louis Berkowitz, Mickey Nelson, Deborah Schnaper, Isidore Schnaper, Harriet Schnaper Green, Mo Schnaper, Barry Statter , Estelle Statter, Aaron Scnhaper, Jan Schnaper, Joseph Schnaper, Frank Schnaper, Dave Schnaper, Tolby Kronthal , Bernie Goodman, Isadore Schnaper, Jessie Schnaper, Robert (Bobby) Emmer, Shel Silbert, Max Silbert, Alvin Silbert and Harry Schnaper.  Middle row (L-R):  Roz Schnaper, Rose Schein, Dotty Schnaper, Farah Berkowitz, Betty Nelson, Sonia Schnaper, Rose Schnaper, Elaine Schnaper, Rose Schnaper, Lenora Schnaper, Beverly Schnaper Kronthal, Elaine Schnaper Goodman, Pauline Schnaper, Sandy Silbert, Fannie Silbert, Myrna Silbert. Front row (L-R): Emily Schnaper, Larry Schnaper, Eddie Schnaper.

Identified by Bernie Goodman, Elaine Goodman, Harriet Green, Essie Kerschner, Betty Nelson, Beverly Schnaper Kronthal, Sonia Schnaper, Shel Silbert, and Estelle Statter.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/11/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.242.6.46b

Status: Identified! Jastrow family, 1899. Morris Jastrow is in the back row center, Joseph Jastrow, back row right. Front row (l-r): unindentified, wife of Rabbi Marcus Jastrow, Rachel Szold Jastrow with Benno Jastrow, her adopted son, on her lap, and unidentified.

Identitfied by Lexie Cohen, Sally Levin, and Betsy Levin .

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/04/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2003.053.026

Status: Unidentified. Photograph by Joseph Ulke in 1876.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/21/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1993.173.219

Status: Unidentified. C.1920.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/14/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1982.012.034

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Rabbi Judah Nadich speaking at an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee conference, with Stanley Wilen on the right, n.d.

Identified by Bob Hankin, Debbie Tyrangiel, Esther Rosenberg, and Fred Finkelstein.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/07/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.073.115

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/29/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.024.019

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph of a group of soldiers in an unidentified location (before leaving for Bethlehem) during World War II. The back of the image contains the note: "kneeling, [Albughine?], myself , Walker, and Kelly. Standing, [Paulio, Ruad?], Lt. Potter, Borsage, Tunstall, [Henduy?], before leaving for Bethlehem."

Identified by Lenny Goldschmidt and Sally Steinberg.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/22/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.073.118

Status: Unidentified. Soldiers from the 86th Supply Company.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/15/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.024.058

Status: Unidentified. Soldiers during WWII in Cairo, Egypt.

 

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/08/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.024.044

Status: Unidentified. Soldiers during WWII in Cairo, Egypt.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/01/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.024.018

Status: Unidentified. Soldiers during WWII.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 01/25/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.024.017

Status: Unidentified. Three soldiers in Jerusalem on Christmas Day during World War II. Caption on the back reads "Jerusalem, Xmas Day, 1942 Tunstall, myself, Borsage."

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 01/18/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.024.012

Status: Unidentified. Soldiers during WWII.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 01/11/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.113.055

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 01/04/08

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.113.037

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph of soldiers and civilians outside the Jewish Serviceman's Center in Bremen Germany, 1945. Third from left may be Ernest Bravmann.

Identified by Suzanne Sachs.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 12/28/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.113.034

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph of three soldiers in their Chaplain jeep in front of the Bremen Port Command Recreation Center, n.d. Ron Schlossberg is likely the man in the center.

Identified by Ron Schlossberg.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 12/20/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1995.157.046

Status: Identitfied! Black and white photograph of Elsie May Cohen, an army nurse, standing outside on the steps of a ward. Seated on the steps are five unidentified men, some in partial uniform. The back of the image contains the note "My boys in B5 while on night duty. Notice lights on in the ward."

Identified by Al Cohen and Barbara Sacks.

 

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 12/14/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1995.157.042

Status: Unidentified. Philadelphia, June 1944.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 12/07/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1998.078.002

Status: Identified! Picture of a class of boys at the Talmudical Academy, taught by Rabbi Jacob Bobrowsky. First row, front to back: Ezra Novick (looking down at his book), Norman Klein and Leonard Heyman (with hand near mouth). Second row, front to back: William Hoberman (leaning on his hand), Joshua Hertzberg (looking down), Harry Rashbaum. Third row, front to back: Samuel David Siegel, Gilbert Shoham (wearing a vest), Bernard Creeger. Fourth row: Joshua Green, Aaron Feldman.

Identified by Harry Rashbaum and Joel Feldman.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 11/30/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 2000.119.005

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of child with shovel in front of crowd at Ground Breaking ceremonies at Har Sinai Temple, 1959.  Bruce Tischler might be the boy with the shovel. Samuel I. Rosenberg, a light-haired boy,  is in the crowd on the right side of the photograph, wearing a striped jacket and a light colored tie and is standing  to the right of Jack Vineberg, the taller young man in a tie. Ruth J. Tischler is the second girl on the left in the back row.

Identified by Delegate Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg, Jack Vineberg, Neil Garland, and Morris Tischler.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 11/23/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1999.136.022

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Sorority Guild members pose with advertisement for fund raiser for mentally retarded children, 1962. Left to right: Mildred Spector, Phyllis Tabb, Norma Rief, Alma Evnitz and Sylvia Marcus (Kramer).

Identified by Marshall Rief, Debbie & Scott Taub, Marilyn Dickman, Larry Wolf, Myra Askin, Bessie Goldman, Beverly Kohn, Sarah Rivka Backman and Barbara Bookoff.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 11/16/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 2001.023.021

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of the Alliance Players production of "Medea" with Lillian Werden, standing on far right, and Dennis Kane (formerly Kanofsky) sitting with two boys, n.d.

Identified by Royal Parker Pollokoff.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 11/09/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1999.026.005

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph of Isaac Davidson Hebrew School class; nd. Sofia Laufer, teacher. Front row, (left to right) 1. unidentified, 2. Roslyn Goldstein, 3. Frances Goldstein, 4. unidentified, 5. unidentified.  Middle row (left to right): 6. unidentified, 7. unidentified, 8. unidentified, 9. Henry Pertman 10. Adam Pertman (both wearing ties), 11. unidentified, 12. Irwin Jacobson. Back Row: 14. unidentified, 15. unidentified, 16. unidentified, 17. unidentified, 18. unidentified, 19. unidentified.

Identified by Molly Goldstein, Marcia Markowitz, Frieda Pertman, and Roz Lisberger.


Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 11/02/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1999.020.017

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of young adults socializing Beth Tfiloh at a sorority or fraternity event. Left to right are: Sonia Alpert, Rona Wagman, Ellen Jane Brownstein, unidentified boy slightly behind, Marian Lewin, Lee Sachs (with his head down), Gerson Stutman, Patricia "Patty" Flax and unidentified.

Identified by Hilda Yankelov and Betty Aaron.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/26/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1997.045.002

Status: Partially Identified. Photograph of a group of 11 girls and two counselors of the JEA camp sitting outside on wooden steps of a structure in Druid Hill Park, c. 1950. Back row (left to right): Elizabeth Hecht Goodman, Marlene Rothman, Susie Kaplan, Judith Kramer or Helene Levitt.

Identified by Peggy Lewis, Norma Livov Wollod, Lisa Lockwood, and Helene Levitt Scheer.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/19/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.138.008

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of members of Q.A.L.S at Krieger Eye Institute with two hospital representatives at left, and opthamology equipment. Left to right: unidentified, Florence Pass (wearing a dark jacket and white shirt), Harriet Spear, Dr. Irvin Pollack (Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology), Ethel Steinberg, Blanche Carmel (immediately to the right of the equipment), Esther Romm, Florence Schreiber (in a dark blazer), Mollye Pollekoff (in the front), Frieda Tabor (in a white blouse immediately to the right of Mollye). Shirley Paul is standing behind Mollye, Abby Smith or Mary Tabor is in the center (with short dark hair) and Rita Beth Friedman is in the back right corner.

Identified by Lois Gammerman, Sibyl Gordon, Wendy Schnitzer, Morty Weiner, Florence Pass, Judy Wolff, Bob Steinberg, Rita Rubin, Leslie Romm, Dr. Irvin Pollack,  Stanley & Evelyn Wagner, unidentified woman, Sandy Levy, and Bryline Schwartz.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/12/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1994.135.017

Status: Identified! Three women from the Jewish Armed Services Committee, Ladies Auxiliary, prepare packages for soldiers. Left to right are Sylvia Lamb, Toby Altschull and Jessie Seltzer.

Identified by Sylvia Schneider, Gil Cohen, three anonymous ladies, Sandy (Seltzer) Silberman, Shirley Goodman, Sylvia Grosshandler, Mildred Grabstald, Adele Greile, Dr. Richard Lamb, Rosemary Weiner, Ellen ? , and Frieda Tompakov.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 10/05/07 and 09/07/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1997.059.014

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph, four men in front of a Westinghouse products truck, in front of Leon Levy Jewelers (obscured by truck) at 319 W. Lexington Street, near Hochschild Kohn. n.d.    Sigmund "Siggy" Holtzman is the second from the left.  Tommy D'Alesandro III is third from left.

Identified by Naomi Ginzberg and Mark Rosenfield.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 09/28/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1995.122.006

Status: Partially Identified. Photo: Black and white, of the Allied Basketball Club (Jewish Educational Alliance), Baltimore Basketball League Champions, 1923-1924, two copies.  Hyman "Lefty" Stern is the second man from the left in the back row (first basketball player), Manny Hoffman is in the center of the back row, "Red" Renbaum is wearing a suit and standing on the right side of the back row. Nathan "Nadie" Klein is seated in the center of the middle row.

Identified by Arthur Hoffman, Howard Friedel, Herman Blenchikoff, Barbara Steinhart, Bernie Stern, and Barbara Hoffman.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 09/14/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1994.051.010

Status: Partially Identified. Russian immigrant "Walk for Israel", two women -- either Joyce Ottenheimer or Naomi Kellman-- with channel 2 cameraman, 1980.

Identified by George Rosenstock and Neal Borden.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/31/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 2001.040.052

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph of three women dressed as cowgirls in front of a Levi's sign, July 1956. Esther Fox Flehinger is identified on the left and Sylvia Ladon is in the center.

Identified by Mardi Robinson.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/24/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.334

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph of seven men walking in a row down sidewalk. Several hold cameras. (One holds projector?) Alvin "Connie" Nasdor is fifth from left.

Identified by Estelle Silverman

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/17/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.186

Status: Partially Identified. Vin Mar club clown show. Large group of about thirty men and women in costume pose in a disorganized fashion. Costumes include clowns, pirates, man in nightgown with cigar, women in dressing gown, cowboy, Navy Officer (?), black face paint and suit. Photograph is taken indoors, and leaves seem to be hanging from the ceiling. Large bunch of dried cornstalks stand on the right. Upholstered furniture and end table sit far right.

Identified by Estelle Silverman

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/10/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.299

Status: Unidentified. Alliance Club "Pirates Ball" 1928.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 08/3/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.144

Status: Identified! A staged photograph of an examination from the Alliance Club Players production of "Dr. Manlock".  The patient, played by Sol Liss, is lying on a gurney and is covered with a white sheet.  From left to right standing around the patient are unidentified, Doris Crane (Margulis), unidentified, Milton Hamburger (with stethescope), Bernie Hoffman, Bernie Thal (leaning over),  and ? Hyman.  All of the people are dressed in white, hospital attire.  The background , painted by Jacob Glushakow, shows a medicine cabinet and a shelf. 

Identified by Doris (Crane) Margolis

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 07/27/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.094

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Royal Club, outdoors. Eight girls and one boy sit in front. Eight boys and one girl stand in back, arms on each other's shoulders. Most subjects dressed in casual attire. Two boys in back wear suits.  The second man in from the left in the back row has been identified as Ellis Suroksy and the man center on the back row with the black suit on is possibly Hymie Craven.  The man on the left in the front row is Arthur "Otts" Tucker, and Florence "Fagie" Kaplan Tucker is next to him.  The man in the center of the front row has been identified as either Eric Feldstein or Casper Siegelman.

Identified by Helen Surosky, Bernie Cohen, and Froma Tucker Willen

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 07/20/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.073

Status: Unidentified. English class at the JEA in 1919.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 07/13/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.148.006

Status: Unidentified. Hendler baseball team, 1928

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 07/06/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.108.006

Status: Unidentified. Purim celebration at Agudath Achim Synagogue, 1951.

 

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/29/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1991.137.007

Status: Partially Identified. Photograph of Group of unidentified men and boys, taken by Mershon Studio, Baltimore. Summertime with trees in background and man with dummy on his knee in center. Howard A. Burman is to the right of the man with the dummy.

Identified by Helen Sollins.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/22/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.108.054

Status: Identified! Baltimore Hebrew College Hebrew High School class, 1978. Identifications include: 1. Dr. Samuel Litov 2. Kate Sugarman 3. Jonathan Aarons 4. Ian Weiner 5. Joyce Becker 6.  Orna Rosenthal 7.  Lois Adelberg 8.  Marilyn Murveit 9.  Edith (Edie) Homoki 10.  Deborah (Debby) Jeffrey 11. Unidentified 12.  Robin Karlin or Linda Freedman 13. Robyn Gelber.

Identified by Steve Liebowitz, Joyce Franklin, Robin Karlin, and Edith (Homoki) Creeger

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/15/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.108.010

Status: Unidentified. Child puppet show in Jewish Community Center lobby, December 1972.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 06/01/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.202.078

Status: Partially Identified. A group of four men from the Jewish Layman's Institute. Left to right: Unidentified, unidentified, Rabbi Jacob Agus and possibly Dr. David M. Rankin.

Identified by Elliott Merenbloom, Dr. Sidney Rankin, Debbie Vogelstein, and Sarah, Michael & Dan Hirshhorn

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/25/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.007.015

Status: Partially Identified. Snapshot photograph of 4 children, from left: Carol Eckhaus, Morton Shapiro, unidentified, unidentified, Auchentoroly Terrace, July 1926.

Identified by Gertrude Shapiro and Morton Shapiro

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/18/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1991.084.026

Status: Identified! Black and white group photograph taken of the 1944-1945 Bialik Chapter of AZA at Petach Tikvah. Individuals identified as: 1. Hillel/Harry Goldberg 2. Albert Blank 3. Cantor Hillel Lipsicus 4. Rabbi Benjamin Axelman 5. Ben Schlossenberg 6. Bobby Solomon 7. Leonard Grebow OR Aaron Grebow 8. Al Polevoy 9. Leonard Niport 10. Joseph Axelman 11. Unidentified 12. Norman Sklar 13. Unidentified 14. Jack Lazarus 15. Dan Buchman 16. Willie Shulman 17. Unidentified 18. Jerry Niport.

Identified by Lawrence Goldstein, Lynn Goldberg, Bernard Raynor, Maurice Paper, Aaron Asrael, Harold Rosen, Rabbi Shabowski, Phyllis Oppenheim, and Joe Axelman

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/11/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.011.001

Status: Identified! Tulkoffs Horseradish Products Company interior of 1016 Lombard Street, 1945. Lena Tulkoff, wearing a dress with a large white collar, is standing at the rear of the room next to Ben Tobesman. Estelle Levin Tulkoff is seated next to Ben. In the center of the photograph Harry Tulkoff is seated next to Marge, who was the bookkeeper for many years.  The white door at the top of a short flight of stairs at the back of the room led into the factory.

Identified by Sylvia Tulkoff

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 05/04/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1991.101.002a

Status: Identified! Photograph of Jack Portney (left), Ike Rice (center) and Herman Weiner or Benjamin Flax jogging, n.d.  All three men were boxers trained in Baltimore by Frankie Rice.

Identified by Harold Lipsitz and Marlene Resnick

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/27/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1988.034.013

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of (left to right) an unidentified man, Oscar Ballasohn, and Abe Ballasohn in Sunshine Cleaners, c. 1925.

Identified by Helen Ballasohn Aiken

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/20/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1988.046.010

Status: Partially Identified. Black and white photograph on postcard of (from left to right) Sadie Smith (Zovalovich?) Dubick Akman, one unidentified woman and one unidentified man in photo studio sitting in cardboard cut out car, Russian typing on back of postcard, c. 1905.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/13/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1991.007.003

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Hymen Saye teaching an Introduction to Hebrew at the College of Jewish Studies, November 1947. Rhoda (Goldstein) Wilkis is in the front row, third from left, and Doris (Pollack) Schnider is fourth from left, wearing a dark dress, looking at the teacher.

Identified by Judy Snyder, Elaine Plimack, Rita Freedman, and Gloria Kolker Hack

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 04/06/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1990.116.008

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of Lee Dopkin and his brother, Henry, as part of a Hopkins Baseball team portrait. Lee is seated in the 2nd row, first on the left. Henry is seated in the first row, third from left, c.1911.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/30/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1991.007.001

Status: Unidentified.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/23/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1987.65.092

Status: Identified! Black and white photograph of an in-store display for radios entitled "Mystery Control," taken in the showroom of the Joseph M. Zamoiski Co. at 110 S. Paca Street, n.d. Photographed are Isadore Kaufman (standing front), Harry Schwartz (standing rear, left), Joseph Katz (standing right) and Nathan Ulman (seated), executives at Zamoiski Co.

Identified by Stanley I. Greenebaum

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/16/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 2002.107.082

Status: Unidentified. A woman passing out Ship-A-Box boxes to children, n.d.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/09/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.142

Status: Identified!  "The Gang: Sunday June 30th at the Reliance Club Shore, Evergreen Park Beach", c.1930. 
Front row, left to right: Leon Lerner, unidentified, unidentified, Mully Stein and Connie Nasdor
Second row, left to right: Unidentified, George Nasdor or Hy Berman, Jack Saltzman and Sam Berman. Maurice Soypher is in the second row from the back, second from right wearing a cap. Hyman "Hy" Evnitz is in the center of the back row.

Identified by Richard Soypher, Charlie Berman, Estelle (Nasdor) Silverman, and Linda Storch

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 03/02/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1992.231.079

Status: Identified! A girls ballet class, 1937. Including Cyril Jaffee, second from right, Fay Blindor (Nasdor), 4th from right, Lillian Bond, 6th from right, Rose Unger, 7th from right, Mary Mashbaum, 8th from right and Shirley Zipper, 10th from right. Eleven girls stand in a row with their arms extended in dance movement. The teacher, Ruby Keeler, wearing a polka dotted dress stands in the far right of the photograph, arms also extended. Class appears to be held in gymnasium.

Identified by Wendy Hall, Shirley (Zipper) Wolf, and Sarah Klein

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/23/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1982.012.043

Status: Partially Identified. Joseph Schwartz, standing in tie at right, with children, an old woman, and some men on what appears to be the deck of a ship, n.d.

 

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 02/16/07

PastPerfect Accession #: 1990.084.002a

Status: Identified! Harry Greenspan, a counterman, a housekeeper holding 5/6 month old Miriam Silverman (Waitsman), and Tillie and Isadore Silverman in front of Silverman's Dairy Restaurant, located at 1008 E. Baltimore St., ca. 1921.

Identified by Laura Buckner, Miriam Waitzman, Harriet Kramer, Harriet Goldberg, and Sidney Kovens

 

 

 

 

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