Guide to the Caplan Liff Family Papers, 1908-2001
1908-2001
Metadata Details
- Title
- Caplan - Liff family papers 1908-2001
- Creator
- Subject
- Leff, Alvin , 1907-1972, Lefkofsky, Abraham , 1879-1937, Leff, Sarah, Louise Caplan, Liff family, Caplan family, Caplan, Solomon Baer , 1878-1943, Caplan, Frances Brenner , 1880-1938, B.L. Cream Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Caplan Liff family papers are housed in one archival box. The folders are arranged by family. The first nine folders include materials from the Caplan family and the remaining six are the LIff family., Caplan - Liff family papers, MSS 0541 Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania., Bernard and Betty Liff gift 2001 2001.0005 papers, Solomon Baer Caplan and his wife Frances Brenner were Jewish immigrants from EAstern Europe. They cam to Pittsburgh in the late 1890s. Solomon startrer a business as a wholesaler of shoe findings and leather. The family had nine children. A daughter, Betty, married Bernrd Liff in 1938. She was involved in the Jewish community and was chair of the National Council of Jewish Women from 1950 to 1951. Bernard's career as an architect covered forty years., Gift of Bernard and Betty Liff., Processed MSS 0541 8/2009 T. Rea, Finding aid available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Caplan - Liff family., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1908-2001
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- oclc: 472656126, pitt: US-QQS-mss541
- Source
- 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-MSS541, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- 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/