Magnes collection on Congregation Emanu-El, 1850-2002.

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Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.). Board of Trustees. Magnes collection on Congregation Emanu-El, 1850-2002.

Magnes collection on Congregation Emanu-El, 1850-2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743435416

Collection consists of materials from and about Congregation Emanu-El collected by the Judah L. Magnes Museum's staff, including a small number of administrative and cemetery records (some of these are photocopies of early materials); materials from the Congregation's religious school (mostly the school's publication "The Scroll" and confirmation booklets); scattered materials on various congregational events, including a copy of a centennial essay on the history of the congregation compiled by Edgar Kahn in 1950; materials on organizations associated with the congregation, including the Women's Guild, the Pathfinders, the Emanuelites, and the Men's Club; a small number of files on individuals, including Rabbis Herman Bien, Elkan Cohn, Jacob Voorsanger, and Martin A. Meyer; copies of The Temple Chronicle, the congregational newsletter (1924-2002); and photographs. The photographs consist mainly of images of the congregation's various buildings before and after the 1906 earthquake and fire. There is an especially fine collection of stereographs of Emanu-El's Sutter Street temple, which was one of the dominating architectural features of the San Francisco skyline.

2 cartons, 4 boxes, and 1 oversize folder (3.6 linear feet)

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library