Businesses -- Music

Scope and Contents Folder contains: Small envelope containing newspaper clippings detailing Mayer's work to save life of girl with Diptheria; photocopies of clippings; photocopy of book page "Four to Remember" (See copy in Annie Fisher/Abe Goldstein); photocopy of newspaper article "the history of the Jews in Hartford"; Short biography of Nathan Mayer; Invitation to research study presentation at JHSGH; 2 copies of Mayer's poetry; 2 copies of mayer's Address to Ararat Lodge; 3 photocopies of newspaper article...

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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Subjects of interview include: Hartford history circa 1900; family life in Hartford; father's immigration from Austria; father's business as cattle dealer and butcher; early Jewish education and inability to go to college; husband's music career

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Subjects of interview include: Music career; experience at UCONN; involvement with advertising; family success with patents, Initial Public Offerings, and stock market; career of children; recommendation not to get into the business of professional music playing; activity with Rotary Club and Shriners.

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Folder contains: The Pasternack Family Story, 1978, 1991, and 2003 edition; photocopies of newspaper clippings;photocopies of black-and-white photographs; CD of the Pasternack Family Tree

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Subjects of intervierw include: family, family businesses, early education, involvement with change in Emanuel and Beth El congregations, authorship of children's book, fundraising, work as executive at Hebrew Home.

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Folder 2 contains:Photocopy of "Four To Remember" biography compilation; currency from the Theresienstadt/Terezin Ghetto printed in 1943; program for Victor Chenkin's performance at the Bushnell 3/16/1930; memo to Tager from Hartford Jewish Federation; news clipping imploring Tager's radio program to come back; postcard with a picture of Akatui prison; clipping of Hartford Courant title line

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Folder contains: correspondence; cardboard business cards for CT fire insurance co.;handwritten notes for oral history; photocopies of photographs of Simon from 1916-1935 photocopies of news clippings; photocopies of pages from 1956 congressional hearings about flood insurance