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Farming\Jewish Farmers

 Digital Record
Identifier: farming\jewish farmers

Dates

  • Creation: 1907-2009

Language of Materials

English

Daniel zFine Photo Information

Here's one for the files: Gitlin Farm on Chestnut Hill Rd., Colchester --My Mom's family -- this was a farm and kuchelain. All these people were aunts, uncles and first cousins of mine left to right from the front: Milton Gitlin, Arnold Hurwit, Carl Hurwit (Hurwit and Simons and W.H. town council member Murray Gitlin (was a Martha Graham Dancer and production stage Manager for "Boys in the Band", Cloud Nine, Sammy Cahn Story, Blythe Spirit -- all on Broadway and Max Gitlin his Father 3rd row Murray Gitlin -- author, Joyce Gitlin (his daughter), Sara and Sam Gitlin (our grandparents) , Ida Gitlin Davidson on the porch: Bernie Gitlin (owned Bernard Gitlin Sporting Goods in Hartford), Beatrice Gitlin Fine (my Mother)?, Anya Gitlin (Max's wife), Jim and Mary Hurwit (owned Hurwit Hardware), Frances Davidson Jacobs. The two men are Max Cooper, Ben Cooper's Father and his Father Fetta Munya (Morris Cooper)with Mary Hurwit behind.. The women to the left are Tante Bunya (Morris Cooper's sister ). Fetta Munya (Morris) and Tanta Bunya were brother and sister to my Grandmother Sara Cooper Gitlin

118 photos/images

Marion Major's farmer photos (folder)

(lr) Gershon, Sarah, Lewis, Thomas, Beatrice, Julius Merkin c1929

Abraham Leon Greenberg Homestead on Mill Rd, Farmington, CT Purchased 1897, sold 1913

Abraham Leon Greenberg, Farmington, CT b 1847, d 1907

abraham_leon_greenberg

baron de hirsch

Bringing Hay into the Barn, Sadek Farm, n.d.

Celia Dember, Farmer & Boarding house owner, Colchester, CT n.d.

Cohen_Anna Cohen

Cohen_baby chicks with gas brooders

Cohen_Congregation Agudas Achim, built in 1927

Cohen_coop constructed c1942

Cohen_coop constructed c1945

Cohen_free range chickens

Cohen_Martin cohen in front of the cow barn, 1938

Cohen_Marty and his wife, Dorothy on the occasion of his 89th birthday, 2009

Cohen_Private Tom Cohen, discharged from US Army, 1918

Cohen_the cow barn with milk house and milk can in foreground

Cohen_tom and anna cohen, wedding picture 1919

Cohen_tom cohen the butcher peddling meat to a customer

Cohen_tom cohen the farmer with bull

Colchester scene

colchester, steamworks of the hayward rubber co

colchester_merchantsrow

colchester_s+sleathercompany_office

colchester_s+sleatherfactory

Dember_Dember's Elmwood House

Dember_Grandpa Dember 80 years old, 1944

Dember_Mr. Dember, Colchester resident and owner of hotel

Dember_Zada Barnett Dember, 1936, shoemaker in Colchester center near green

Dembers Farm, Colchester, CT Grampa Dember, Gramma Dember, Ester & Frances 1933

Dembers Farm, Colchester, CT, n.d.

fair_view_hotel_colchester

farming-book-cover-sm

Father -Ben Dember, Colchester, CT 1944

father_behlember

Fine, Daniel_Gitlin Farm on Chestnut Hill Rd., Colchester

gitman, samuel and sarah

Goldstein_chickens on the Goldstein farm, Pachaug, late 1920s or early 1930s

Goldstein_Erwin and his mother, Rose, Pachaug c1930

Goldstein_Erwin Goldstein at the chicken house on farm in Pachaug, CT ca1938

Goldstein_Erwin goldstein on frontstoop in Brooklyn NY, June 1933

Goldstein_George goldstein on farm, Pachaug c1930s

Goldstein_Goldstein housein Pachaug, summer of 1943 and Goldstein barn between 1940 and mid-1960s

Goldstein_jacob Goldstein, right, and his brother on pasture along Goldstein farm about the early 1930s

Goldstein_Janice Kurs and Erwin Goldstein-cousins-Pasture behind garden about 1938

Goldstein_Vinnie Goldstein, Uncle Benjamin's wife, Pachaug c1938

Greenberg_the old cadwell homestead, res. abraham l. greenberg

Jewish_Farmer_magazine

Joe Sadek Farm, Lisbon, CT

Kalmon Bercowetz (left) bringing cattle from Chicago to Bloomfield, 1930s

Kalmon_Bercowetz_Bloomfield

lebanon_synagogue1946

Lebanonfarm_Schwartz

Leon Simon on load, Sam Schwartz, father below, Lebanon, CT n.d.

Life-of-the-Land-book-cover

Little Girl, c 1930

Man in Field, Lisbon, CT n.d.

Man tilling land with horse, n.d.

Man with Horse, Lisbon, CT n.d.

merchantrow_colchester

merkin_family

Miss Malchen Simon -busy with heifers, Lebanon, CT 1946

Mr Schwartz feeding Poultry, Lebanon, CT 1946

Nassau_Henrietta Virshup and her husband Hyman, Somers farm, ca. late 1940s

Nassau_Milton Virshup and his wife Mickey, Somers farm, ca. late 1940s

Nassau_Milton Virshup, Somers farm ca1940s

postcard_fairviewhotel_colchester

Rashell and Cantor Farm_cows, chickens and hay loft

S&S_LeatherCo_factory

S&S_LeatherCo_office

S.&S. leather co. outing

Sadek farm, Lisbon_cows

Sadek farm, Lisbon_sheep

Salowitz_Smith Homestead BrideBrook Rd Niantic CT, c1895

Salowitz_Smith homestead, East Lyme c1895

Salowitz_the Salowitz barn, east lyme 2009

Salowitz_the salowitz farmhouse with development in background, East Lyme, 2009 Sarah Rostow, Farmer Girl in Bloomfield, CT 1913

sarah_rostow

20 slide negatives -- Selvinslide

selvinslide_farmer

selvinslide_farmhouse

selvinslide_haystack

selvinslide_horsedrawncarriage

Shelters - Rashell & Cantor Farm, Ellington, CT n.d.

synagogue_in_lebanon_1946

unidentified group

unidentified scene on porch

Woman feeding chickens, n.d.

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