Our Director of Collections and Exhibits, Joanna, kindly offered to pull together a selection of photos from our collections to help us celebrate Mother’s Day (which is this coming Sunday,
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Collections Highlights: Passover
A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. For this week’s Insights, the team asked me to highlight some Passover-related
Further Voices of Lombard Street: Lazinsky’s Fish Market
A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Sometimes, the biggest difficulty in opening an exhibit is that once it’s
Surprising Connections
A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Sometimes the best way to come up with a potential blog topic
Going For a Drive Up Park Heights Avenue
A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Growing up in Montgomery County, I did not spend much time in
Hours of Devotion
A 19th Century Prayerbook for Women A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. As often happens, I blithely signed
Torah Mantles on a Field Trip
A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. This week, Trillion and I had the pleasure of taking some of
Digging In To The Collections: Dora Buckstein
A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Exhibit research can be an opportunity to look more closely at some
An Efficiency of Seal Presses
A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. There are arguments to be made in favor of collecting multiple iterations of an artifact.
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