The William Breman Jewish heritage and Holocaust museum.

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Business, day school, and university-related records.

For more information or to make an appointment, call Sandra Berman, Archivist, at 404-870-1862, or contact her by e-mail.

Note: many individual and family papers also contain business records.

 

D. Danneman Kosher Market and Delicatessen. Records, 1941–1942.
(Jewish New Years card)(newspaper articles relating to Cohen's department store in Alma, Georgia)

Dannenberg Company. Macon, Georgia.Records, 1883–1991.
Mss 133

Size: 8.5 linear feet.

Content: The collection contains not only financial records dating back to 1883, and minutes of the stockholders meetings from 1910-1965.

Significance: The Dannenberg Company, a department store, was founded in 1867 in Macon, Georgia, by Joseph Dannenberg. The first location of the store was on Cotton Avenue. Joseph's son, Walter, went to work for the store at 16 years of age and was the first in the area to introduce ready-made skirts to his customers. The store became the largest enterprise of its type in Macon. It closed its doors in 1965.

The Davis Academy. Records, 1993.
(brochure and newsletter)

Morris Dwoskin Family. Papers, 1964-1970.
Mss 134

Size: 1.2 cubic feet.

Content: The collection consists of a scrapbook highlighting the accomplishments of Harry Dwoskin; records and memorabilia from Dwoskins, Inc.; and records from Ahavath Achim Congregation.

Significance: Morris Dwoskin was the founder of Dwoskin, Inc., an Atlanta-based wallpaper company. His son, Harry, was extremely active in wide variety of Jewish and general community organizations and was elected the president of the Better Business Bureau in Atlanta in 1966.

Emory University. Records, 1969-1991.
(brochures, invitations and pamphlets relating to the Jay and Leslie Cohen Chair of Judaic Studies and the "Witness to the Holocaust Project")

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. Records, 1939.
(letterhead, 1939)

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. Atlanta, Georgia.  Records, 1907-1908.
(give-away calendar)

 

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