A woman sits behind a table bearing many advertisments touting the 1944 N.A.A.C.P. Philadelphia Branch membership drive. Two men approach to view the pamphlets she offers.
Abe Neff. 1944. Abe Neff and His Orchestra during the 1944 Season at Summit Springs Hotel, Poland, Maine. Leon Gordon, Saxaphone; Jay Pomerantz, Piano; Abe Neff, Drums and Conductor; Murray Abrams, Violin; and Henry Coonley, Cello and Guitar.
Copy of legal brief for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, submitted to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court in the Girard College desegregation case. Includes a history of the case and statement of legal issues involved.
A woman wears a sandwich board outdoors in Philadelphia so as to recruit potential members to the local N.A.A.C.P. Branch. A man approaches to take one of her pamphlets.
Striking PTC workers are polled as to whether they will return to work if they are given police protection. Those whose hands are raised answered affirmatively.
Jean Gornish whose stage name was Sheindele de Chazente was known as the first female performer of Jewish liturgical music in the US. She was born in Philadelphia the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shloma Gornish and graduated from West Philadelphia High...
Johanna Lovinger-Meyer and family in 1944 Philadelphia. From the collection of Johanna Lovinger-Meyer (b. 1874), matriarch of an upper-middle class German-Jewish family. She was the first woman radio announcer in Germany. She and her family...
