| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Korabek Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Korabek Family | | | | Dates: | 1865-1945 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Korabek was born between 1829-1831 in Bohemia-Austria. He immigrated to the United States in 1867 with his wife Barbara and three children, Anna, Josephine, and John. Joseph Korabek was a wagon maker whose shop was located at 1630 Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio in 1880. His son John Korabek owned a dry goods store in Cleveland. The collection consists of photographs, negatives, cabinet card photographs, postcards, and carte de visites of members of the Korabek family of Cleveland, Ohio. Also included are several views of Cleveland school classes and family homes and businesses, including the J.E. Korabek dry goods stores. A large number of Cleveland studio photographers are represented in this collection. | | | | Call #: | PG 125 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Korabek family -- Photograph collections. | J.E. Korabek (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Stores, Retail -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Abraham Stearn Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Stearn, Abraham | | | | Dates: | 1870-1920 | | | | Abstract: | Abraham Stearn (1847-1921) was a Cleveland, Ohio-born philanthropist and financier. He joined Moses, Levy and Co., a fancy goods and toy store, in 1868. It became Levy and Stearn in 1872 and Stearn and Co., ca. 1905. Stearn was a director of the Society for Savings, the American Savings Bank and other institutions. He was a trustee of the Foundation of Jewish Charities and of the Jewish Orphan Asylum. He married Bertha Rohrheimer in 1876. The collection consists of individual portraits of Abraham Stearn; individual and group portraits of family members, friends, and associates; views of the Abraham Stearn residences on Case Avenue and Magnolia Drive; exteriors of the Levy and Stearn Department Stores on Superior Avenue and on Euclid Avenue;and portraits of the officers of the Federation of Jewish Charities. | | | | Call #: | PG 343 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Stearn, Abraham, 1847-1921 -- Photograph collections. | Stearn family -- Photograph collections. | Federation of the Jewish Charities (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish bankers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Stores, Retail -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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