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Travels with Grace: Exploring LA and its Neighbors

Welcome to the next segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Travels with Grace. Today Grace begins her California adventure. Los Angeles June 21, 1924: We arrived at San Pedro at

Travels with Grace: Getting to California, 1924

Welcome to the next segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Travels with Grace. Today we begin to follow Grace on her 1924 adventure, where she and her family set out

Travels with Grace: New York, 1919 Part 3

Welcome to our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Travels with Grace, where we’re sharing (and annotating) posts from the travel diaries of Grace Amelia Hecht, native Baltimorean, b. 1897 and d. 1955.

Travels with Grace: New York, 1919 Part 2

Welcome to our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Travels with Grace, where we’re sharing (and annotating) posts from the travel diaries of Grace Amelia Hecht, native Baltimorean, b. 1897 and d. 1955.

Travels with Grace: New York, 1919 Part 1

Welcome to our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Travels with Grace, where we’re sharing (and annotating) posts from the travel diaries of Grace Amelia Hecht, native Baltimorean, b. 1897 and d. 1955.

Traveling With Grace: Our new Tuesday series!

A blog post by JMM Marketing Manager Rachel Kassman. To read more posts from Rachel, click here. Do you follow #TravelTuesdays on your social media platform of choice? (If not, I

A Story from the Archives: Is This Goldie?

Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie here. In 1948 the United Jewish Appeal, with the help of numerous international organizations assisting in moving

The Mount Pleasant Jewish Home for Consumptives

A Personal Connection Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie here. I knew very little about Mount Pleasant prior to working here at the

Two souvenirs from a European vacation, 1911

A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Isaac Hecht (1864-1913) was a prominent businessman in the small Maryland town of Havre de

A Research Dive: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum

Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie here. A few weeks ago, I received an information request about the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.  The person