Abe Orbuch was born in a small town in Poland near the Russian border. He fled Poland at 21 to avoid conscription into the Russian military, settling in St. Paul. He bought a Model-T Ford and traveled to small towns outside of St. Paul where he sold fruit. He formed friendships with many in the Polish community in Foley and commuted to a poultry business he owned there for over forty years. He bought chickens, eggs and veal from Foley farmers and sold them sugar, flour and twine.
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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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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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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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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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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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Interior view of Minnehaha Liquor Store with two men standing in the aisles. Minnehaha Liquor Store was owned and operated by Sam Zimmerman, seen at left. The store is still at its original location at Lake St. and Minnehaha Boulevard
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Mr. Milavitz stands in front of his store. A young girl stands to the side of the doorway and a child in a carriage is visible on the left side. Many avenues of employment were closed to Jews, resulting in a concentration of Jews earning a living as small shopkeepers. Many graduated from peddling to keeping a store after years of travel and establishing accounts on the road.
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Photograph of a man standing in front of a delivery truck. Delivering goods directly to homes was a common service in mid-century America. Peoples-Lehman Bakery was a South Minneapolis Jewish-owned business.
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Photograph of women and men gathered around a large table at the B. W. Harris Manufacturing Company. Harris Manufacturing was founded by Barney Harris in St. Paul in 1916. The company was known for men's outerwear sold under the Zero King label. For decades the home office was in Lowertown in St Paul.
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Desnick's Drug Store was located at Penn and Plymouth Avenues, a hub of the North Side neighborhood. The two girls are Reva (Margolis) Rosenbloom on the left, and Ruth Lurie on the right.
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