Guide to the Photographs of Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger, c1870s-1974
- Repository
- Heinz History Center
- Title
- Photographs of Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger
- Creator
- Gallinger, Antoinette Ohlman, 1878-1957.
- Collection Number
- MSP#309
- Extent
- .50 cubic feet (1 box)
- Date
- c1870s-1974
- Abstract
- Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger was of German-Jewish descent and lived most of her life in the milieu of upper middle class Jewish social life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. All of the photographs in the collection are of family and friends of Antoinette ("Nettie") Ohlman Gallinger.
- Language
- The material in this collection is in English.
- Sponsor
- This finding aid has been encoded as a part of the Historic Pittsburgh project a joint effort of the University of Pittsburgh and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Funding for this portion of the project has been donated by the Hillman Foundation.
- Publisher
- Heinz History Center
- Address
- 1212 Smallman St.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
library@heinzhistorycenter.org
URL: https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org
Biographical Sketch of Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger (1878-1957)
Antoinette ("Nettie") Ohlman Gallinger was of German-Jewish descent and lived most of her life in the milieu of upper middle class Jewish social life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although little is known of Nettie Gallinger, she left a record of several events in her life. She was born Antoinette Rachel Ohlman on January 18, 1878 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Melius and Sophia Ohlman. As a young woman, Ohlman traveled to Allegheny City and Pittsburgh in November 1899, for her "informal" social debut. Residing with cousins Sophie and Morris Kingsbacher, Ohlman attended balls and parties held at the Concordia Club, a private city club for leaders of the Jewish community and their families, and in private homes. During her visit to Pittsburgh, Ohlman met Horace Greeley Gallinger, a mercantile and manufacturing businessman, whom she later married on January 29, 1901. On August 8, 1902, Nettie Gallinger gave birth to a daughter, Ruth Ohlman Gallinger. A second daughter, Marion Beatrice Gallinger, was born August 23, 1908. With her family, Gallinger attended Rodef Shalom Synagogue, the earliest established synagogue in Pittsburgh, and the Concordia Club. She was also a member of the Greater Pittsburgh Section of the Council of Jewish Women. Nettie Gallinger lived in Allegheny City and in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh for most of her life.
Scope and Content Notes
All of the photographs in the collection are of family and friends of Antoinette ("Nettie") Ohlman Gallinger including school pictures of her daughter, Ruth Gallinger Foster, at Liberty and Linden Schools (c1909 and 1911, respectively). Also included are group wedding and anniversary photographs as well as informal and posed vacation shots. Some of the earliest photographs in the collection are of Nettie Ohlman and friends taken on her extended visit to Pittsburgh for her informal social "debut." The pictures correspond with her diary written during the extent of her stay, from November 1899 to March 1900 (For the diary, please see the Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger Papers, c1890s-1940). One of the photographs is identified as the "Housemaids Party," and refers to one of several theme parties mentioned in the diary. Theme and other parties appear to be represented in the pictures as well. Gallinger's daughter, Ruth Gallinger Foster, figures in the aforementioned school photographs as well as in honeymoon and vacation pictures at Atlantic City, New Jersey (1920, c1930).
A group photograph documents Nettie Gallinger as a bridesmaid in the wedding of Florence Frank and Harry May (1913). The photograph shows the wedding party assembled after the ceremony. Another group photograph, separated to the oversized collection, depicts members of the Walter and Mollie May, Sr., wedding anniversary party in Paris (1928) laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Gallinger and her husband, Horace Greeley Gallinger, were two of approximately sixty guests of the Mays for the transatlantic voyage to Paris on the Aquitania. (For other photographs documenting the trip, please see the corresponding scrapbook in the Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger Papers, c1890s-1940.) Several Gallinger family men are represented in individual portraits in the collection as well as individual and group photographs of Nettie Gallinger's brother, Dr. Isaac L. Ohlman. Some of the individual portraits of Isaac Ohlman and a group photograph of his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, are prints. Two group photographs document Isaac Ohlman's membership in the Pittsburgh Medical Forum (30th Anniversary, March 25, 1950). Other family photographs include a group photograph of Nettie Gallinger's parents, Melius and Sophia Ohlman, at their wedding anniversary celebration, 1910. There is one unidentified tintype in the collection; however, many of the photographs have been identified (by person, place or event) by the family (see the notation on the reverse side of the images).
Arrangement
The Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger Photographs are housed in one archival box and are arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These photographs came with the Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger Papers.
Preferred Citation
Photographs of Antoinette Ohlman Gallinger, c1870s-1974, MSP#309, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Janie L. Weaver on February 18, 2000.
Revision and rearrangement for the encoded version of the finding aid provided by Janie L. Weaver on March 23, 2000.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or publish, please contact the curator of the Archives.
Subjects
- Liberty School
- Linden School
- Pittsburgh Medical Forum
- Gallinger, Antoinette Ohlman, 1878-1957.
- Gallinger family
- Ohlman family
- May family
- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs
- Europe -- Description and travel
- Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny City
- Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Meadville