Businesses & Professions -- Pharmacist

Scope and Contents This file has a variety of items, from newspaper articles to passports to oral histories of the Hurwitz Family. Note that it seems like there may be two different Hurwitz families, one connected to Rabbi Isaac Hurewitz/Hurwitz and another consisting or Morris and Raymond and their families. Most of the information is connected to Isaac Hurewitz/Hurwitz's family. This Hurwitz family has several family trees that map out the generations.The oral history focuses on life in the home...

Scope and Contents This file focuses on Sam Hyman's participation in sports, both during his school days at Hartford High and Georgetown University as well as his semi-pro career in baseball's minor leagues. He was in the Detriot Tigers Franchise when Ty Cobb was the manager. Several articles recount the day when in his forties, he was convinced to pitch for the Hartford Senators, locking up his pharmacy for the afternoon to secure the win.The documents also talk breifly on his career as a...

Scope and Contents Topics included in this interview: Family history/death of his father/location of various relatives, growing up as a Jewish boy in Romania, immigration to Hartford to join brother Jack Kaufman, learning English and education in Hartford, working as a child, path towards career in pharmacies/drug stores including education and following in his brothers' (Jack and Irving) footsteps, membership at The Emanuel and religious life, active in Masonic Lodge Number 88 (Fifty-Fifty club-half Jewish,...

Scope and Contents Topics included in this interview: Family history/death of his father/location of various relatives, growing up as a Jewish boy in Romania, immigration to Hartford to join brother Jack Kaufman, learning English and education in Hartford, working as a child, path towards career in pharmacies/drug stores including education and following in his brothers' (Jack and Irving) footsteps, membership at The Emanuel and religious life, active in Masonic Lodge Number 88 (Fifty-Fifty club-half Jewish,...

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5x7 black and white photograph of the exterior of the L. [Louis] G. Harris Drug Store, Corner of Park and Wadsworth, Hartford, CT, 1904.

Photocopy of oversize image of Harris' first pharmacy, clerk Abe Laschaver (sp?) in white coat, n.d. Original located in Oversize I/Photographs/Businesses/Harris Pharmacy.

Material was part of a collection donated by Ethan Harris and Edith Feyer of Tulin/Toft/Harris Families. See also: Tulin Family, Toft Family, Harris Family.

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Folder contains: One oral history transcript.

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...