Harriet Rochlin Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life ca. 1845-1991

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Harriet Rochlin Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life ca. 1845-1991

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Harriet Rochlin began collecting Western Jewish photographs in the late 1960s to illustrate articles she was writing on Jewish pioneering in the American West. The collection grew significantly when she and her late husband, Fred Rochlin, contracted with Houghton Mifflin to compose an illustrated social history, . The book spans Jewish life in the Spanish, Mexican, and American Far West from 1571 to 1912. The majority of the photographs (2248) and photocopied images (1623) track the Jewish Westward Migration from secret Sephardic Jews in flight from the Mexican Colonial Inquisition, to tens of thousands of openly Jewish families rooted throughout the Far West by 1912, the end of the territorial period. She has continued to collect images for articles, essays, slide narratives, and for a work-in-progress, . Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West A Mixed Chorus: Jewish Women in the American West, 1849 to 1924

2248 photographs and 1623 photocopies in Fourteen boxes. (7 linear feet); Four oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Rochlin, Harriet, 1924-

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Harriet Rochlin, was born and raised in Boyle Heights at a time when that Los Angeles neighborhood housed the largest mixed immigrant population--mostly Jewish and Mexican-- in the West. She graduated from the UC Berkeley in June, 1947, and a month later married UC architectural student, Fred Rochlin, a Jewish native of Nogales, Arizona. Both Westerners of an unnamed sub-culture--American, Jewish, Mexican--they expressed their predilections in attachment to their natal landscapes, foods, music, ...