Businesses & Professions -- Machinist

Scope and Contents

Documents focus on his store Eblen's, an Army-Navy shop Autobiography is a typed memoir and includes some diagrams and family photos

Interviewer

Gloria Bein

Scope and Contents Folder contains: One supply catalog, "suppliers to the Sheet Metal Trade and Heating/cooling/ventilation contractors", with business card attached; One photocopy of newspaper clipping relating to antiques sellers; ne photocopy of a yearbook page containing entry for Morris Landerman, 1925; Two copies of black-and-white photocopy of photo, "Front Street Hartford May 21 1937, Max Landrman b 1893 d 1963, Jim Rudolph d 1965, John Cardillo born feb 15 1908, Mr Shad, Manuel Libin died Oct...

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: black and white photocopy of group photograph "Marder family emigrating to Palsetione, Oct. 21, 1933, Vulcania 1933 -- Mrs. Lilian (Eisenberg) Marder and Alice Marder (Mileikowsky) and Sarah Marder (Plen) went to settle in Palestine (Sitting -- bottom row)"; Correspondence from Jewish Historical Society thanking her for donations; Sarah Plen's translation of marriage confirmation; news clippings; handwritten minutes of Zionist meeting; paper in Hebrew; certificate of award...

Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: early life in Hartford; father's carpentry business; immigration of parents from Russia; ethnic makeup of Hartford's North End prior to it becoming a predominantly Jewish area; Influx of Jews into north end; work as salesman and Hartford Board of Ed member; local politics; soliciting help from the WPA; acting as Director of Plant Operations for board of ed; wife's teaching career.

Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: travels in Israel and Europe; jumping from one business to another during the depression; baseball career; involvement with B'nai B'rith.