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  • Envelope sent to Southern Bell T. & T. Co., Louisville, from Victoria Hotel located at Broadway and Tenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Southern Bell T. & T. Co., Louisville, from Victoria Hotel located at Broadway and Tenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to J & A Friedberg Inc., Brooklyn, New York, from Laub Brothers, Louisville, Kentucky, manufacturers of trunks and traveling bags.

  • Envelope sent from Thompson-Silvy Distributing Co., located at 614 East Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope features image of the building's facade and side and advertises "House-to-House Distributing is Productive Advertising."

  • Envelope sent from John J. Coomes, Long Distance Racing Pigeons, located at 1209 Lydia Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope features image of pigeon.

  • Envelope mailed via the U.S.S. Louisville. Hand drawn color illustration of the state of Kentucky, a jockey on a horse, three white stars, and blue, red, and white stripes. Stamped as "U.S.S."

  • Envelope and letter about a debt sent from attorney and Counselor at Law, Lawrence S. Grauman whose office is located at 614 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph B. Logsdon.

  • Envelope sent from Dr. Harry Goldberg located at 523-524 Fincastle Bldg. 305 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Mary and Barry Bingham Sr. seated outdoors with their five children in Chatham, Massachusetts.

  • Mary Bingham is seated with her arm around one-year-old Eleanor Bingham in Chatham, Massachusetts.

  • Photograph of Mary Bingham in evening dress and sitting with Eleanor Miller in a chair in Paris, France.

  • Photograph of Jonathan Bingham standing with a smile in his Boy Scouts uniform outdoors.

  • Photograph of Mary Bingham (1904-1995) holding her son Jonathan Bingham (1942-1964) in his christening gown, with Barry Bingham Sr. (1906-1988) in uniform.

  • Sallie Bingham hugs a column, dressed as Titania in Shakespeare play staged at Bingham amphitheater.

  • Barry Jr., Sallie, and Robert Worth Bingham III at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

  • Six-page narrative of Trude Ackermann Breiner as told to Carolyn Moyse and Virginia Wilson. The story covers the Ackermann and Pokorny families's experiences in Vienna, Austria, during World War II and their efforts to navigate the immigration process to the United States.

  • Four-page minutes for the executive board meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women. Louisville Section held on October 9, 1941. A summary of the Service to the Foreign Born chair report includes the "receipt of $10.00 from 2 people who have moved out of the city as return on help from the Comm for their citizenship papers. There were 9 newcomers during the summer. The Nursery School has 33 registrations which means a waiting list of 15. It has been possible to increase the teacher's salary and she has a NYA assistant."

  • Two-page, typed minutes for the annual meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women. Louisville Section held on April 21, 1941. The minutes include a summary of Mrs. Edgar Menderson's presentation on '"National Council in the Field of Service to the Foreign Born." The National Council decided to end the German Children's Aid Inc. "to make way for a broader field of work in service to the foreign born" and increase local sections' financial contributions to the expanded work.

  • 9-page, typed report on the Nursery School operated by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Louisville Section and the Jewish Welfare Federation of Louisville, Kentucky. The document begins with the need for, purpose, and principles of the "combination nursery and school" for "children 2 1/2 to 5 years of age." It outlines how Selma Kling and Katherine Bottigheimer of the NCJW Americanization Committee spearheaded the creation of the school in part to serve "Immigrant children of pre-school age who will use the school in learning English and general orientation." The school opened on February 5, 1940. The report profiles the initial behavior and improvements of some of the students, including three refugee children. The document notes that "the teacher at the School is a German refugee who obtained kindergarten training in Germany and additional nursery school training in this country. We feel that the provision of employment for her thru the establishment of the Nursery School is in line with the aims of the Council in relation to work with New Americans."

  • National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section, Executive Board meeting minutes for December 9, 1940. The minutes include reports on the group's Nursery School enrollment and Workshop, both of which served immigrant women and families. The Service to the Foreign Born Committee also reported on interest in Mrs. Dan Byck's American History study group for German women, collection of clothing for a refugee camp in Spain, and use of the Klauber Fund to cover fees for "four new citizenship papers."
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