Businesses -- Tobacco

Interview

Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history. Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother. A brother died in World War II Career as a social worker Religious life and education Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.

This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.

Scope and Contents This account details the life of Charles Karpman, starting from his childhood in a shtetl called Narovlya, Russia. He discusses Jewish life as well as daily life of a child in Russia.The family immigrated in 1916(?) when he was five through the east through Japan, then Seattle, then eventually to Hartford where his father and other family members had settled. This route was taken because passage west was blocked due to World War I.The milkman gave the Karpmans English...

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Golden Medallion with leaf on side with date and initials LBH on the other.

Scope and Contents Subjects of interview include: early life in Russia; process of immigration out of Haburg; education in New York City; work as a pharmacist in Hartford; over-the-counter medicines of the early 1900s; other small businesses in Hartford; qualifications to become a phramacist in Connecticut in the early 1900s; early telephones and their opreators; interest in music; attendance of theater; rise of anti-semitism in the United States; photography; the disintegration of parental authority over...

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Folder contains: autobiography by Minnie Solomon, including subjects such as family life in Poland, immigration, family life in Hartford, child labor as a cigarette-roller, and marriage.

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Vertical reference files for individuals.