Photographs, [ca.1890-1960]

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Photographs, [ca.1890-1960]

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Consists largely of photographs, mostly undated and unidentified. Also included are a few negatives, clippings, invitations, and an autograph album. Photos consist of a few family photos, ca.1890-1900; photos of Abelman at various dinners, meetings, and presentations; photos of Abelman with Harry D. Gideonse, President of Brooklyn College, and with various prominent, mostly political, figures including Wendell Willkie, George Marshall, John Cashmore (Brooklyn Borough President), Gov. Dewey, Abe Stark (also a Brooklyn Borough President), and Albert Einstein (in bathrobe and slippers). Also included are a small photo album with an invitation and some photos documenting "Jewish Home and Hospital Reception and Tea for Max Abelman who will be presented by the University of Manila with a Special Diploma of Honor for his humanitarian activities." The diploma was presented by General Carlos Romulo, Philippines Ambassador to the United States, and past president to the United Nations General Assembly, 1957. Also includes a few wedding photos, and an invitation to the wedding of Marie Antoinette Abbey and Armand Tokatyan, a tenor in the Metropolitan Opera Company.

.2 cubic ft.

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Romulo, Carlos P. (Carlos Peña), 1898-1985

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Carlos Peña Romulo QSC CLH NA (14 January 1898 – 15 December 1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army, university president, President of the UN General Assembly, was eventually named one of the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the recipient of many other...

Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Ha...

Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940...

Abelman, Max, 1890-

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Philanthropist, fundraiser, Abelman, a Brooklyn resident was secretary of the Medical Board of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, and affiliated with the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the Library Associates of Brooklyn College. From the description of Photographs, 1913-1957. (Brooklyn College). WorldCat record id: 36449922 Fundraiser, philanthropist. Abelman, a Brooklyn resident, was affiliated with The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, the Federa...

Cashmore, John

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Stark, Abe

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Gideonse, Harry David, 1901-1985

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Educator, author, President of Brooklyn College, 1939-1966. From the description of Papers, 1925-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155453746 Educator, College president. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry David Gideonse : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734431 ...

Abbey, Marie Antoinette.

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Tokatyan, Armand, 1894-1960

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Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959

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George Catlett Marshall (b. December 31, 1880, Uniontown, Pennsylvania-d. October 16, 1959, Washington, D.C.), had a long and auspicious career in the United States (U.S.) Army and to the United States. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901 and served his country as U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Envoy to China, Army Chief of Staff, and as President of the American Red Cross. Marshall, America's first five-star general, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, ...