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Foster and Mars Family Papers and Photographs, 1898-2001
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- Title
- Foster and Mars Family Papers and Photographs, 1898-2001
- Creator
- Foster and Mars family
- Subject
- Foster, Barbara , 1924-2015, Foster, Byron, Foster Jr., Byron, Gallinger, Antoinette Ohlman , 1878-1957, Gallinger, Horace, Gallinger, Ruth, Mars, Bernard, Mars, Peter, Mars, Sally, Mars, Wendy, Weil II, A. Leo, L.B. Foster Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Shadyside Academy (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Skidmore College., Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Wightman School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Winchester-Thurston School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Geneology--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh, Jews--Education, Jews--Families, Jews--Work, Jews--Youth, Spanish-American War, 1898, World War -- 1939-1945
- Description
- The Foster and Mars families are branches of one of the oldest Jewish families in Pittsburgh. The Foster and Mars Family Papers and Photographs consist of photographs, correspondence, official records and scrapbooks documenting members of the Foster and Mars families., The Foster and Mars Family Papers and Photographs consist of photographs, correspondence, official records and scrapbooks documenting members of the Foster and Mars families. The collection is arranged into three series titled by family and further by members within each family. A fourth series consists of oversize materials. The Ruth and Byron Foster materials contain memory books from their wedding in 1922 and the births of their children. A scrapbook and assorted correspondence document a trip to Europe in late 1946 and early 1947. A folder of photographs documents a trip to Europe after World War II to purchase steel for the L. B. Foster Company. The Barbara Foster materials contain documentation of her schooling and social life, including a summer camp scrapbook, photographs of her high school and college friends, and a vacation through Virginia, Georgia and Florida in 1946. The Bernard Mars materials contain photographs and documents of his schooling, recreational affairs and military service. Of note are several documents from the 1950s pertaining to L. B. Foster Company’s government contracting work and a series of world currency collected by Bernard Mars during his military travels. The Peter Mars materials contain school photographs and photographs from a trip to Israel in 1971 with other Pittsburgh teenagers. Peter Mars married Wendy Mars., Processing Information: Processing by Catelyn Cocuzzi on 12/03/2019., Materials Separated from the Resource: The Shofar (1935) and Golden Owl (1969) yearbooks have been transferred to the library., Foster and Mars Family Papers and Photographs, 1898-2001, MSS 1210, Rauh Jewish Archives, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center., Gift from Peter Mars in 2018. Archives accession 2018.0162., The Foster and Mars families are branches of one of the oldest Jewish families in Pittsburgh. Nathan Gallinger (d. 1886) came to Pittsburgh in 1850 from Bavaria, by way of Ohio. He ran a jewelry and brokerage business in downtown Pittsburgh and was one of the early officers in the Bes Almon Society, a burial society and the first Jewish communal organization in Pittsburgh. His grandson Horace Greely Gallinger (1874-1942) was a merchant and businessman who served in the Spanish American War. Horace Gallinger married Antoinette Ohlman (1878-1957) of Meadville, Pa. in 1901. They had two daughters, Ruth and Marion. The family lived in old Allegheny City (now the North Side of Pittsburgh) before moving to Squirrel Hill. Ruth Gallinger married Byron Foster in 1922. The Foster family was initially involved in oil field supplies industry and later transitioned into the steel industry through the L. B. Foster Company. The company was founded by Byron’s brother Lee. Ruth and Byron Foster had two children, Barbara and Byron Jr. Barbara Foster (1924-2015) graduated from Wightman School, Winchester-Thurston School and Skidmore College, where she majored in art history. She married Bernard “Bud” Mars in 1945. Bernard Mars attended Wightman School and Taylor Allderdice High School and graduated from Shadyside Academy, where he was a competitive swimmer and football player. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He later joined the L. B. Foster Company. Barbara and Bernard Mars had three children, Sally, Peter and Andy., Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger Papers and Photographs, MSS/MSP 309.
- Contributor
- Mars, Peter (former owner), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1898-2001
- Type
- Collection
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:US-QQS-mss1210/viewer, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Shadyside (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Squirrel Hill, (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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