Cooper and Levy families papers, 1890-1959.

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Cooper and Levy families papers, 1890-1959.

The Cooper and Levy families papers are the records of two pioneer Seattle Jewish families and include the records of Isaac Cooper; his wife, Lizzie Levy Cooper; her brothers Louis, Aubrey, and Eugene Levy; and their mother, Esther Levy. The papers contain correspondence, business records, financial records, legal documents, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and some photographs.

17.46 cubic feet (40 boxes)

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In 1892 Isaac Cooper and his wife's brother, Louis Levy, established the firm of Cooper & Levy, a grocery, hardware, and woodenware business. They supplied most of the prospectors during the Alaska-Klondike gold rush and acquired a considerable fortune by the time they sold out ten years later to the Bon MarcheĢ department store. In 1892 Esther Levy and her daughter, Lizzie Levy Cooper, organized Seattle's first Jewish welfare society, the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society. Over time, both s...

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