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| | Photograph Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Abraham Stearn Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Stearn, Abraham | | | | Dates: | 1870-1920 | | | | Abstract: | Abraham Stearn (1847-1921) was a Cleveland, Ohio-born philanthropist and financier. He joined Moses, Levy and Co., a fancy goods and toy store, in 1868. It became Levy and Stearn in 1872 and Stearn and Co., ca. 1905. Stearn was a director of the Society for Savings, the American Savings Bank and other institutions. He was a trustee of the Foundation of Jewish Charities and of the Jewish Orphan Asylum. He married Bertha Rohrheimer in 1876. The collection consists of individual portraits of Abraham Stearn; individual and group portraits of family members, friends, and associates; views of the Abraham Stearn residences on Case Avenue and Magnolia Drive; exteriors of the Levy and Stearn Department Stores on Superior Avenue and on Euclid Avenue;and portraits of the officers of the Federation of Jewish Charities. | | | | Call #: | PG 343 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Stearn, Abraham, 1847-1921 -- Photograph collections. | Stearn family -- Photograph collections. | Federation of the Jewish Charities (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish bankers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Stores, Retail -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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