Businesses -- Pharmacies

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.

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: Growing up Jewish in Russia, Education, America Work, Not Practicing (Holidays), Pharmacist (Educ./Work) Hartford Culture (Theater), Photography, family

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Subjects of interview include: early life and education in Hartford, attendance of various synagogues, observance of family, career in pharmacies