Posts tagged with cataloging

To the people that knew her best, Betty Jean “BJ” Busch was irrepressible. Busch had a highly successful career as a librarian and the focus of her family's gift in her memory is her educational experience at the University of Michigan and her early work as a cataloger at the U-M Library.

Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: a postcard depicting a group of men in front of a narrow two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), circa 1917. On the ground floor of the building was the Electrically Powered Bakery while the first floor housed the kosher restaurant of Varsano and Mosse.

Newly cataloged for the Jewish Heritage Collection: a poster announcing the premier presentation in Philadelphia of the Yiddish play Milchume kalles (The Jewish War Brides) at the Arch Street Theater. Gift of Elliot H. Gertel.

Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Salonique, type de vieux juif – a historical postcard depicting an old Jewish man in traditional dress standing in the middle of a street in Salonica, the famous Balkan port-city located on the shore of the Aegen Sea. Some evidence from the picture allows us to established that it was taken between 1912-1917.

From the Jewish Heritage Collection: a trilingual postcard depicting Jacob Meir, Chief Rabbi of Salonica.

Newly acquired and cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.

Newly catalogued for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Two centuries meeting – the mother and daughter, circa 1917.

A newly acquired and cataloged item for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.

A historical postcard depicting the Jewish cemetery of Salonica, Greece --- newly cataloged for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.

A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Le Quartier israëlite détruit.