Businesses -- Coal

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This collection consists of newspaper clippings, advertisements, and memorabilia documenting the activities of Jewish business people and Jewish professionals (physicians, attorneys, artists, musicians, etc.) throughout the Hartford area.

Scope and Contents The highlight of this file is a 1937 magazine article, "Toubman Keeps Pace With Changing Times," announcing the opening of a Hartford service station by Wm. Toubman & Sons Inc. Also contains a photocopied envelope postmarked 1904 on H. Fine letterhead; original and photocopied articles from the Hartford Courant, including obituaries and retirement announcements for regional fuel oil and gas industry members and advertisements; and a 1997 article discussing the influence of coal research...

Scope and Contents Photocopies of articles, photographs, advertisements, fliers and correspondence, from the Hartford Courant, the New Britain Herald, the News Weekly, the Hartford Times and other papers, concerning the American Coal Co. Inc. between 1936 and 1943. Highlights include an internal memo on scrap rubber collection, a bulletin entitled "Instruction Given for Oil Rationing" and a letter to American Coal customers urging customers to buy their winter coal a year early, as well as several invitations...

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Photocopy of book "I'll Give you a Nickled if You'll Listen to Me: The Gordon Family History" compiled and Edited by Zelda Gordon Schuman.

Book contains transcripts of various interviews of Charles Gordon, Zelda's father.

Scope and Contents This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....

Scope and Contents This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....