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Guide to the Fuchs Family Papers and Photos>, 1933-1951
Metadata Details
- Title
- Fuchs family papers 1933-1951
- Subject
- Fuchs family, St. Josephs Junior Military Academy (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Description
- Mary and Louis Fuchs facilitated correspondence between local servicemen and area residents through their businesses in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh during World War II. This collection contains the letters and postcards sent and received from servicemen stationed at basic training camps throughout the United States from 1942-1944. Furthermore, the collection contains photographs of cadets from the now demolished St. Josephs Junior Military School which the Fuchs children attended, and several snapshots of the family., Fuchs family papers, MSS 0580, Rauh Jewish Archives, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Ronald Fuchs gift 2/2010 2010.0036 papers, During the 1930s through 1942, Mary and Louis Fuchs owned and operated Frick Park Confectionary and the adjacent tea/beer room at 7113 Reynolds St., located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The tea room was colloquially known by several names including Marys Tea Garden, Marys Tea Room and Social Club, and Fuchs Emporium. Because residents of the neighborhood congregated at the tea and beer rooms, the Fuchs started the practice of distributing pencils, postcards, and stationary every Thursday evening so friends and family could write to local servicemen after the United States entered World War II in 1941. In 1942 the Fuchs sold their businesses to begin a new one, the Frick Park Market, located at its still present location of 7103 Reynolds St. The Frick Park Market was later owned and operated by their two surviving sons, Robert and Ronald, who sold their shares in 2000. The Fuchs had three sons: Louis Dickie Fuchs, born December 1932; Robert Rudolf Fuchs, born July 1933; and Ronald Gilbert Fuchs, born March 1936, who attended St. Josephs Junior Military School, a Catholic boarding school at 1725 Lincoln Avenue Pittsburgh., Gift of Ronald Fuchs, Processed MSS 0580 10/2010 A. Toner, Finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Fuchs family., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1933-1951
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, .50 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:748846225, pitt:US-QQS-MSS580
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS580
- Coverage
- Point Breeze (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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