Street view of storefronts along 6th Avenue North. 6th Avenue contained a mixture of single and multiple story structures housing businesses and residences on the upper floors.
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A view showing the interior of Beckelman's Grocery Store, with workers standing behind the counters. Frank Beckelman is at the far left. Beckelman's was in South Minneapolis at 10th Street. and 7th Avenue S.
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The Goldishes were one of a small number of Jewish families that lived and worked along the North Shore in the commercial fishing industry. They both fished and processed their catch for market.
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Portrait photograph of a boy wearing a Husch Brothers uniform for the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. Husch Brothers was a Jewish-owned clothing manufacturer.
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An interior view of the Browning King clothing store with salesmen standing at a long counter. The store was located on the corner of 6th Street and Robert St. in St. Paul.
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A toddler stands on the sidewalk wearing a snowsuit and mittens. The Sumner Field Homes were constructed by the W. P. A. in 1938. They were the first federally subsidized housing in Minnesota. Sumner Field replaced housing stock constructed in the 1880 and 1890s that were home to a first generation of Minneapolis immigrants.
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Fannie Cohen and her son Sidney (standing on chair) at Cohen's grocery store at 119 S. Wabasha Street in St. Paul. The store opened in 1920 and stayed in business into the 1940s.
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A large group of young people standing in front of Bernie's Sandwich Shop. Bernie's Sandwich Shop was a popular hangout for students enrolled in the Mechanic Arts High School. The shop was located at Central and Roberts in St. Paul.
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Daniel Snyder Oglansky's was located at the corner of Sheridan and Golden Valley Road. The photograph is part of a collection of genre photographs depicting everyday life and people in North Minneapolis.
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A young boy stands on the horsedrawn cart holding a bell while a young man stands next to the cart holding a small crate. Many Jews were in the peddling business in the early part of the century. Items peddled included fruits and vegetables, clothing and housewares.
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David Scheinberg was the proprietor of a grocery store on Minneapolis' South Side. The South Side had fewer Jewish households than the North Side, and included more immigrants from Romania, whereas the North Side had more from Russia, Poland and Lithuania. The South Side was home to the Reform and Conservative congregations; North Side synagogues were Orthodox with the exception of Beth El. South siders had businesses throughout the South Side, including along Lake Street, Franklin Avenue and the University area.
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An exterior view of the Dupont Cash Market storefront, which was one of several family-owned markets that served the North Side community. It was located at 928 Dupont Avenue South.
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Gemilus Chesed was a North Side Orthodox congregation that combined social service functions, such as loans and charitable relief, with religious services. The congregation was founded the 1910s and merged in 1969 with another former North Side congregation, Shari Zedek, to form Shari Chesed in St. Louis Park.
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Etheldoris Grais grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota and attended Hibbing High School. She married Arnold Grais, a pharmacist, and together they ran several Iron Range drug stores.
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Photograph of Fanny Cohen standing in front of her family's grocery store holding a cat. The store was located at 115 S. Wabasha. Cohen was a widow when this picture was taken, and ran the business herself for many years.
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Frishberg owned two North Dakota men's haberdasheries with Charles Cohen in the 1920s. Cohen died in a hunting accident, and Frishberg closed the two Dakota stories and set up a shop in Buffalo MN. He soon sold the Buffalo store and moved to St. Paul. Frishberg is on the right.
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Harry Silberstein driving a horse-drawn wagon used for collecting scrap metal. Scrap metal salvage was one of the occupations accessible to Jews. For immigrants leaving Europe in the late 1880s, scrap collection was an open field which required minimal capitalization and a willingness to move about. It also allowed the collector to be his own boss and avoid mandatory factory work hours which would have conflicted with Sabbath observance. Paper-Calmenson was founded 1891 and is still in operation.
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A photograph showing the interior of a store. A long counter is on the left and other products a stacked on high shelves. In the photograph (left to right): Edna Leasman, Ike Kaplan, Esther Kaplan, Mrs. Charles Greenberg and Herb Kullberg. In 1927 there were 13 Jewish families living in Hector, part of the physically extended Jewish community on the Iron Range.
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Four people stand in the aisles inside the Boston Store. Hibbing had a large Jewish population relative to the general population. Jews were active in civic life as well as Jewish community life. Jewish Iron Range families prospered during and after World War II, and many young people left the Iron Range for college.
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Four unidentified men stand inside the Milavitz Jewelry and Tobacco Shop. The counter on the right shows tobacco products while the counter on the left displays jewelry.
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A boy and an older man, selling fruit using draft horses and a covered wagon. Irving Cooper (the boy in the driver's seat) was ten years old when the photo was taken. He is working with "Zadie" (Grandfather) Morris.
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A man stands loading or unloading salvage from the back of a truck. Salvage was one area of industry where Jews immigrating to the U.S. around the turn of the century were able to participate and thrive. Salvage owners took in scrap metals, compacted them and resold them. During WWll, scrap was at a premium, as the U.S. retooled its manufacturing to aid the Allies.
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Exterior view of the Kaplan Brothers Surplus storefront with automobiles parked outside. A popular branch of the Kaplan Brothers Clothing stores was located for many years at the corner of Bloomington Avenue and Franklin Street in South Minneapolis.
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The earliest Jewish neighborhood in Minneapolis was located around the Cedar-Riverside area, and gradually divided and moved Northwest and South. Labovsky's was located at 16th and Franklin Avenue. In the picture are Shifra and Nuchan Labovsky and their sons, Ben and Joe.
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In the picture, Leona (Isadore's sister-in-law) and her daughter Anita, are in the backyard of the Mike Gordon's Ely store: the steps in the background lead to the family home upstairs. Mrs. Rosenbloom, another Jewish Ely resident, is at the right of the picture. The Gordon family was one of the first Jewish families to settle in Ely. Isadore Gordon left Lithuania and traversed Canada before arriving in Duluth. He worked in the shipyards, and peddled the Range. His customers liked him so well that they loaned him money to open a clothing store in Ely. The Rosenblooms raised seven children in Ely, and most of them continued on to college at the University of Minnesota. When the Rosenblooms moved to Minneapolis in 1943, the family store became the Ely American Legion Hall.
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