The B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Society (BYAL) collection is one of our expanding collections – every so often we receive more materials to add to it. This usually happens
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MS 199 Gussie Levin Family Papers
We are only one manuscript collection away from 200! This collection is small, but includes documents from two generations of the same family — Gussie Levin and her daughters Gertrude
MS 132 and MS 182
Two for the price of one! The following post has two related collections: MS 132 and MS 182 both of which contain materials related the Joseph M. Zamoiski Co. and
MS 41 Tulkoff Horseradish Products Company Business Records
Product label, 1960s. JMM 1998.18.12 Food! Food! Food! It seems like all we’re talking about here at the Jewish Museum of Maryland is food. Last week we opened our small
MS 197 Menasha E. Katz Collection
The JMM is lucky enough to have many small personal collections. These collections sometimes focus on a single aspect of a person’s life or they might contain fragments of information
MS 36 Mlynover Verien and Maryland Free Loan Society Records
Financial records don’t offer us much in the way of pretty pictures, but they can tell researchers a great deal about the activities of an organization as well as its
MS 100 Abramovitz Medical Papers
Our regular blog readers may remember that back in June we posted about Dr. Morris Abramovitz. You can revisit that post here. We thought it would be fitting to present the
MS 196 Israel S. Gomborov Collection
One of the most important skills for archivists-in-training to learn is how to write a finding aid. These documents often look simple and straightforward, but processing a collection and writing
Who Was Sam Eig?
A blog post by Research Historian Deb Weiner. If you do much traveling in and around Montgomery County, you may have driven on Sam Eig Highway. I found myself on
MS 195 The Sergeant Isaac Gordon Papers
After a couple of archive posts about the collections of organizations, it’s time to get back to an individual. The following collection is small but packed, and deals primarily with