Harriet I. Samuels family collection

Collection

Identifier: M.36

Scope and Contents

Collection comprises mostly loose snapshot photographs of Harriet Samuels as a child and adolescent and of her family before her birth, spanning c. 1915 - 1950. Subjects include Samuels' early childhood birthday parties, travel and tourism with her family, and her high school proms. Few larger photographs include professional portraits and veiws of Samuels' uncle Morris Samuels' restaurant in Sydney, Australia. Some ephemera and mostly blank postcards are included among the photos. In addition to the photographs the collection includes Sidney Samuels' 1911 certificate of graduation from Hartford Grammar Schools, a dress worn by Samuels as a child on the occasion of the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944 and Samuels' mother Esther (Savitt) Samuels' 1928 wedding veil.

Dates

Creation: 1910s-1990s

Language of Materials

English .

Biographical / Historical

Harriet Isobel Samuels was born in 1936, to Sidney and Esther (Savitt) Samuels, and grew up in Hartford. The family lived on Blue Hills Avenue during World War II before moving to West Hartford, where Harriet attended Morley School, Plant Junior High, and William H. Hall High School. In high school she was a member of Iota Phi. She matriculated at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of Phi Sigma Sigma. Samuels worked as a teacher and reading consultant in and around Bloomfield. She traveled widely, including many times with her parents throughout their lives. As a child, Samuels was present at the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944.

Full Extent

2 Cubic Feet

Subjects

Genre / Form

Geographic

Topical

Great Hartford Circus Fire

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Harriet Samuels family papers M.36
Status: In Progress
Author: Leah Early
Date: 2024-02-20
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin
Language of description note: Description is written in: English, Latin script.