Celia Schweizer Collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains various documents and papers related to the life of Celia Schweitzer including family trees and geneology notes, several vital certificates, a poetry album, correspondence and sewing patterns.
The second folder contains personal and vital papers for various members of the Schweizer family, including birth and death certificates and some school papers. Also in this folder are transcriptions of letter the Schweizers received from friends interned in the Récébédou camp. In the following folder are a ledger book and a poetry album belonging to the bookbindery employee Siegfried Herzog. The poetry album is richly filled with dedications and illustrations signed by Herzog's friends. Attached to the inside of the back cover of Herzog's calculation book in folder three are several receipts for payment (1881) from the Barings Brothers, later Barings Bank. In the final folder are various patterns for needlework and knitting, including some original handdrawn patterns and others taken from German women's magazines. Finally, there are some family trees in the first folder and in the oversized folder.
The following family names appear in the geneology lists: Scheuer, Schweitzer Levy, Levis, Wolf, Warburg, Loeb, Dreyfus.
Dates
- 1853-1988
Creator
- Schweizer, Celia, 1890- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Extent
4 Folders (1 oversized folder.)
Abstract
The collection contains various documents and papers related to the life of Celia Schweitzer including family trees and geneology notes, several vital certificates, a poetry album, correspondence and sewing patterns.
Other Finding Aid
A partial inventory is in folder 1.
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Copper monogram stencils have been removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection.
Clippings have been removed to the Celia Schweizer Clippings Collection , AR 6441 C .
- Title
- Guide to the Celia Schweizer Collection, 1853-1988 AR 6441
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Julie Dawson
- Date
- © 2012
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- October 22, 2012 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
