Max Rosenbaum family letters and photographs, 1898-1945 (bulk 1944-1945).

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Max Rosenbaum family letters and photographs, 1898-1945 (bulk 1944-1945).

Letters and photographs ranging from 1898 to 1945 relating to the Rosenbaum family. Photocopies of typed letters written from Max Rosenbaum to his son, Bert, who was serving in the Army, constitute almost a daily record of the Baton Rouge home front during World War II. Photographs consist of mounted paper prints and black and white prints primarily of the Elgutter family, taken at the Norman studio in Natchez, Mississippi.

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Guarantee Shoe Store (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Rosenbaum, Berthold

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Weiss, Albert M.

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Elgutter, Recha Jereslau.

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Weiß, Sylvia

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Elgutter, Adolph.

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Elgutter, Sammy.

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Congregation B'nai Israel (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Resnicon, Hilda Elgutter.

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Rosenbaum, Max, 1887-1966.

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Max Rosenbaum was born in New York in 1887 and later moved with his family to Selma, Alabama. After serving in World War I, he traveled around visiting friends from the Army. In 1923, Rosenbaum married Ruth Elgutter, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family that immigrated from Germany to Newellton, Louisiana, near Natchez, and then to Baton Rouge. He then went to work at his father-in-law's business located on Third Street, the Guarantee Shoe Store. Two years later, the couple's only son, Bert...

Rosenbaum, Ruth Elgutter, b. 1899.

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Weiss, Robert Elgutter.

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