Adler Family Collection

This collection contains papers of various members of the Adler family. Most of the collection consists of correspondence, but there is also one folder of family papers such as wedding memorabilia, vaccination certificates, visiting cards, telegrams, a notebook, a family tree for one branch of the family and a clipping on Selig Adler.

Family correspondence makes up the greatest part of the collection. All the letters are handwritten and to various family members in various cities in Germany as well as some in America. Many letters are addressed to Rifka Adler (née Liberles) and her children. Letters from America are often from Maryland and New York. The correspondence primarily conveys family news, including holiday or birthday greetings.

Among the items in the folder "Family Documents" are several that pertain to the wedding of Rifka Liberles and Hermann Aron in March 1890. The folder also includes a passport for Josef Adler of Kitzingen and a Heimatschein for a Selig Adler, son of Josef Adler, rabbi of Aschaffenburg. A family tree lists some ancestors of a younger Selig Adler (the grandson of the previously mentioned Selig Adler) of Buffalo; a later clipping on his retirement describes his career as a professor of history at the University of Buffalo. A notebook of an unidentified family member primarily records expense calculations from 1868-1871, but also includes a few addresses.

Most documents in the collection are numerated, reflecting a prior arrangement on catalog cards with some item-level information about the documents. This numeration has been retained; a copy of the cards is present in the first folder of the collection.