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[Portrait of Gertrude Fox]
Date: 1916~
Creator: unknown
Description: Hand-tinted photograph of Gertrude "Gertie" Fox (1894-1966) of Fort Worth, Texas. She is visible from the chest up, wearing a dark-colored dress with rosettes at the left shoulder and is holding a feathered fan in front of her. Fox was from Corsicana, but moved to Fort Worth and married Archie Salsberg in 1916.
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[Freeman-Fram Marriage Certificate]
Date: 1913
Creator: unknown
Description: Printed marriage certificate for Nathan Freeman of Waco, Texas and Etta Rebecca Fram of Dallas, Texas. The couple were married on January 19, 1913 by Rev. Abraham Fram, Etta's father and the cantor at Sheareth Israel Congregation. The Hebrew quotation at the top of the document translates as: "The voice of joy; the voice of happiness; the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride." There is an illustration of a marriage ceremony at the top of the certificate in blue ink.
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[Young Judea Convention]
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the members of Young Judea, a Jewish youth organization in Fort Worth, Texas. The organization held a regional conclave at the Ahavath Sholom Synagogue, where over one hundred members and group advisors posed for the photograph. Many members of the photograph are unknown; from left to right, bottom to top, here is a key to the known members: Row 1 (kneeling): Sylvia Wexler, Stanley Raskin (wearing a hat), Adele Natkin (wearing a white jacket). Row 2: Rabbi Samuel Soskin, Rabbi Philip Graubert, Cantor Israel Ashery, Ann Friedson (wearing a hat with flowers), Sally Kruger (heavy-set woman in the middle of the row), Israel N. Mehl (fourth from the right). Row 3: Bobby Rosenthal (smiling and wearing hat), Harry Perlman (third from left), Leon Schwartz (middle of row, looking to his right and frowning), Irv Rovinsky (last boy in the row, wearing a coat and tie). Row 4: Shirley Levine (fourth from the left in the middle of the row), Morris Sankary (sixth from the left, tall boy with rimless glasses), Shirley Garsten (behind Morris Sankary and to the right, wearing a white collared shirt), Mr. Louis Cohen, advisor (to the right of Shirley Garsten). Row 5: Isaac Levine, ...
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[Zionist Convention]
Date: 1908
Creator: Roesslor & Fineau Photography Studio
Description: Photograph of the Texas Zionist Association Convention at the Shearith Israel Congregation in Dallas, Texas. There are men and women in suits and dresses seated outside the synagogue. There is a Star of David above the doorway of the synagogue with a Hebrew word that translates to "Zion" as well as American and Zionist flags hanging from the building. From left to right, the known members seated in the front row are: Moses Shanblum (fourth from left), Joe Jacobs (fifth from the right), William Goldstein, Israel N. Mehl (with his two children).
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[Salsberg-Fox Wedding]
Date: January 16, 1916
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the wedding of Gertrude Fox and Archie Salsberg at the Ahavath Sholom Synagogue in Fort Worth, Texas. The bride and groom are standing in the center of the photograph, and they are surrounded by men wearing tuxedos and top hats, as well as women wearing silk and taffeta dresses. There is an arbor (a wedding canopy called a chuppah) above the wedding party covered in flowers and crepe paper. Above the arbor there is a ledge containing two tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, written in Hebrew, with a potted plant and sculpted lion on either side. A large portion of the lower-right corner of the photograph is missing.
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[Portrait of Abraham and Hedwig Salsberg]
Date: 1916
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Abraham Salsberg (1870-1957) and Hedwig Salsberg (1870-1940), parents of Archie Salsberg. The pair are standing together and were photographed outdoors. Hedwig (left) is wearing a dark-colored dress and has her left arm through her husband's right. Abraham (right) is wearing a light-colored suit and is holding a hat in his left hand.
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[Portrait of Alvin Rubin]
Date: March 1944
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Lieutenant Alvin Rubin, an Air Force pilot from Fort Worth, Texas. He is pictured from the chest up, wearing his uniform. Rubin was killed in an plane crash over Dakar, French Africa on March 15, 1944. A graduate of Paschal High, he was a past chapter president of AZA, the B'nai B'rith youth group for boys. Fort Worth's Rubin-Gilbert AZA chapter is named after him and Pvt. Harold Gilbert, who also died in the war.
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[1940 Ahavath Sholom Confirmation Class]
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the 1940 Ahavath Sholom confirmation class standing around the altar of a synagogue located in Fort Worth, Texas. From left to right, the members of the photograph are: Front row: Bertha Haller, Gloria Sheinberg (Swann). Back row: Rabbi Philip Graubart, Margie Cohen (Levingston), Dorothy Bergman, Jennie Moses, Dorothy Cohen, Shirley Garston (Cohen), Annie Kaplan, Betty Daiches (Sher).
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[1926 Ahavath Sholom Confirmation Class]
Date: 1926~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a dozen female confirmation students who were part of the Ahavath Sholom Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas. The students are wearing white dresses and are holding flowers. The students are seated in two rows and are identified as: Row 1: Lena Shosid, unidentified, unidentified, Hanna Byrens, Bess Lipshitz Cohen, unidentified Row 2: Sarah Shosid (Bloomberg), unidentified, unidentified, Leah Goldstein (Gerson), Ann Alpert, unidentified
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[Yiddish Minutes]
Date: January 12, 1896
Creator: Levenson, Ben
Description: Handwritten minutes for the Ahavath Sholom Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas. The minutes are written in Yiddish, the native tongue of the members. The document discusses the Sabbath morning services for the congregation. The English translation of the document is as follows: "R Meeting Congregation Ahavath Sholom Fort Worth, Tex. Jan. 12th 96 The meeting was called to order at 3:30 P.M. by B. Levenson, President. The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved. The Committee to pay Armstrong’s note reported that the treasurer had paid Armstrong $25 and received a receipt for them. They received an extension for the balance with 10 per cent interest for 4 months. The committee was discharged. Brother S[am] Kalish had sent in a resignation letter, withdrawing from membership at Congregation Ahavath Sholom. It was ordered to strike his membership according to his wish. Brother Solshauzen read his resignation as secretary of the Congregation, which was accepted. L[ouis] Shanblum was appointed temporary secretary until the new secretary would be elected. The secretary was instructed to write postcards regarding the general meeting for the 4th Sunday in the month to inform all members that the election of a new secretary would take ...
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