Siegfried and Gertrude Bloch Collection

The Siegfried and Gertrude Bloch Collection holds a variety of personal and family photographs. The collection is organized in 4 folders in 2 boxes.

Folder 1 includes only a few official documents, namely Siegfried Bloch's German passport, issued in 1933, and Gertrude Bloch's American passport, issued in 1965. Gertrude Bloch's pension confirmation is the third of the official documents held in the collection. An envelope addressed to Siegfried Bloch in 1949 states that they lived on Broadway in New York City at this time.

Folder 2 holds an undated photo album of the Bloch family, but the pictures were likely taken during the 1940s and 1950s.

Folder 1 of box 2 contains mostly undated photographs that show both Gertrude and Siegfried Bloch. They are mostly private family pictures, some were taken during vacation. Only a few are dated in 1948 and 1951. The folder includes a few photographs of Siegfried's half-brother Louis Bloch and his family, including his wife Carrie.

Folder 2 of box 2 holds mostly undated and unidentified photographs. Some show male twins as toddlers and juveniles, but it is unclear to which family they belong or when the photographs were taken. Some of the photographs may show Alfred and Blanche Jacobsen during vacation in France and Germany between 1933 and 1952. The relation between the Jacobsen and the Bloch family is unclear. There are also several photographs of possibly Alfred Jacobsen and an unknown woman. The folder also contains an undated food stamp, a postcard addressed to Carl Trum that shows soldiers during World War I, and several photograph negatives.