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Banks and banking

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron Hershfield collection

 Collection — Box CB-P9, Folder: P-322
Identifier: P-322
Abstract

Letter from an agent of the Great Northern Express Company, Helena, MT to Aaron Hershfield, cashier, Merchant's National Bank, quoting rates for shipping currency and gold to different points. Also includes 3 pages of background material from the Montana Historical Society.

Dates: 1894, 1977

Alois A.F. Marcus Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25297
Abstract

This collection consists of family and education documents, correspondence and genealogical materials, such as passports, report cards, burial plots and confirmation speeches.

Dates: 1806-1941; Majority of material found within 1908-1941

Berend & Co. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1571
Abstract

The Berend & Co. Collection holds information about the Berend & Co. banking house and later sugar refining company and the Berend family itself. Prominent topics are business matters and Samuel Bacher Berend's son Herz Berend. The collection consists of correspondence, bank checks, birth certificates, military documents, protection papers, royal recognitions, academic documents, and other certificates.

Dates: 1769-1855; Majority of material found within 1830s

Decrees Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 379
Abstract

Various decrees issued by rulers before emancipation to the Jewish communities of the towns and provinces of Alsace, Augsburg, Austria, Baden, Bamberg, Berlin, Bohemia, Brandenburg, Braunschweig, Breslau, Cassel, Cologne, Dresden, Eisenach, Frankfurt am Main, Hanau, Hanover, Helmstaedt, Hessen, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Nassau, Nuremberg, Palatinate, Potsdam, Prussia, Rawicz, Rheinfels, Saxony, Schleswig, Schwerin, Vienna, Weinheim, Wolfenbuettel, and Wuerzburg. The decrees concern many aspects of life, including economic activity and taxation, settlement rights, and the regulation of the internal life of the Jewish communities.

Dates: 1614-1846

Frederick Brunner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4237
Abstract

The Frederick Brunner Collection incorporates the research of the banker and LBI board chairman Frederick Brunner. Prominent subjects encompassed in this research include the Rothschild family and the history of Jews in Landau in der Pfalz. Some research on banking history and Jews as bankers may also be found here. The collection contains extensive newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, notes, genealogical tables and family trees, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1711-1972; Majority of material found within 1930-1970

Frieda Hirsch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 30
Scope and Contents

"Mein Weg von Karlsruhe ueber Heidelberg nach Haifa" is the memoir of Frieda Hirsch (née Goldberg) (1890- ). She describes the history of her parents, her upbringing in Karlsruhe as daughter of a well-to-do Jewish-orthodox family, her education at a humanistic high school (Gymnasium), her university studies (medicine) in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Breslau (1908-1913), and life during World War I in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. She married Albert Hirsch (1887-1954) in 1915, a medical student and member of the Zionist student organization "Verein Juedischer Studenten" and settled in Heidelberg, where Albert worked as a pediatrician. Frieda Hirsch tells about life in Heidelberg, the births and upbringing of her children, various friendships (among others with Georg Hermann, Frieda Reichmann, Erich Fromm, and Eugen Taeubler), Zionist activities of her husband, and first anti-Semitic persecutions in Heidelberg in 1933. She gives detailed testimony of her emigration from Heidelberg via Salzburg and Triest to Haifa, where the family settled, of the difficult first years in Palestine with her husband opening a new medical office, and describes her experiences during World War II in Haifa, the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and moving to Kiryat Ono after her husband's death in 1954.

The second text, an attachment of Hirsch's memoir, contains a genealogical table and a detailed history of Frieda Hirsch's (née Goldberg) and Albert Hirsch's families.

Dates: 1965

Gerson von Bleichroeder Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25234
Abstract

This collection contains an abundance of legal correspondence documenting claims to the Bleichroeder heritage by various members of the family. Included are genealogical documents, testaments, restitution papers, birth and death certificates, juridical protocols, power of attorneys, certificates of inheritance, invoices, and several handwritten notes. A few translations are included, as well as some clippings and personal family documents such as photographs, wedding telegrams, etc.

Dates: 1878-2002; Majority of material found within 1935-1980

Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1768
Abstract

This collection contains handwritten family trees and short typed reports compiled by Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau on the Anhauch, Arnstein, Eichthal, Fould, Goldschmidt, Haber, Königswarter, Morpurgo, Rothschild, and Schnapper families. All of these families were elevated into the nobility. The reports provide vital information on individual family members, a short abstract history of the family, and information on the circumstances of the family's ennoblement.

Dates: 1957-1962

Hans Eltzbacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3623 / MF 649
Abstract

Financial, business, and personal papers of the Eltzbacher family and related families, including correspondence, architectural plans, financial ledgers, wills and testaments, clippings, and eulogies; of particular interest is the business correspondence of Count Aloys zu Kaunitz-Rietberg with the banker Jacob Loeb Eltzbacher (1758-1825), who was based in Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, along with supporting documents and records; material on the career of the lawyer Carl Eltzbacher (1854-1936), including clippings on his candidacy to the Cologne city council in 1903 and correspondence, including a letter from Konrad Adenauer.

Dates: 1781-1971

Hirschland Bank and Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25638
Abstract

The Hirschland Bank and Family Collection contains the family papers and banking records of the Hirschland banking firm established by Simon Hirschland in Essen. Family papers pertain to members of the Hirschland, Grünebaum, Neumann and other families, with an emphasis on family members' emigration and role in the family firm. Banking records focus on the history of the family firm from the 1930s through the 1960s, including records of successor financial firms. The collection includes prolific correspondence, banking files and financial records, family papers, official documents, photographs and photo albums, contracts, and other papers.

Dates: 1819-1999; Majority of material found within 1925-1970

Jewish Agency (Vienna Office) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 301
Scope and Contents

The records relate to Jewish Agency work with displaced persons following World War II, and include the following: correspondence with banks, vendors, Jewish National Fund, Keren Hayesod, and offices of the Jewish Agency in Geneva, Jerusalem, and Paris. Circulars and flyers. Financial records, including journals and account books, auditors' reports, cash books, ledgers, and records of support payments to individuals. Reports of the Immigration and Purchasing Departments. Correspondence and lists concerning release funds.

Dates: 1947 - 1954

Lebenserinnerungen

 Collection
Identifier: ME 1610
Abstract

Recollection of Julius Kohsen’s life, including a family tree. Also available are two translations by his grandchildren, Monica Schubert (ME 939) and Gunther Steinberg (ME 1611).

Dates: 1941, 1992, 2011

Marianne Landau Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11066 / MF 885
Abstract

Correspondence, legal and official documents, books and pamphlets

Dates: 1886-1966

Materials pertaining to social, political and economic history

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3519
Abstract

This collection contains mostly printed documents pertaining to the social, political and economic history in Danzig, Bavaria, Alsace and Westphalia.

Dates: 1696-1858

Max Hermann Maier Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6136
Abstract

This collection contains two letters, several passports and identification cards, and a large amount of small-format photographs, likely shot during World War I.

Dates: 1915-1982

Moritz von Cohn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1120 / AR 1120 / MF 527 / MF 172
Abstract

Financial and personal correspondence of Cohn, along with supporting documents, including letters from German nobles and court officials.

Dates: 1810-1902

Solomon Lyons (1760-1812) Papers

 Collection — Box CB- P1, Folder: P-6
Identifier: P-6
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and various legal and business documents in Yiddish and in English including letters from Solomon Lyons' brother Isaac Solomon in Kremzier (Austria), Lyons' wills (1802, 1804), documents relating to Catherine Gordon of Philadelphia, one of which contains signatures of E. Cohen and Abigail Delyon (1800), a document of protest against Elkin Solomon, a broker in Baltimore (1788), a bond of Barnet Joseph to Lyons (1793), and a document signed by Leonard Jacoby in Philadelphia (1800).

Dates: 1788-1804

United Depositors Committee of the Bank of the U.S. Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 416
Scope and Contents

The records pertain to organized action by the committee to recover savings. Correspondence, receipts, announcements, resolutions.

Dates: 1935 - 1936

Valentin Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3818 / MF 570
Abstract

Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.

Dates: 1677-2002

West European Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4099 / MF 356
Abstract

This collection contains documents and manuscripts on Alsace-Lorraine, France, and Germany.

Dates: 1691-1941