Collection ID: P-95

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Price, Samuel
Abstract:
Contains the correspondence and personal diaries of Samuel Price. The latter describes events of a general nature and particularly life in the Jewish community in great detail in Newark (1913) and Springfield, Mass. (1913-1962). Of special interest is his extended comments on American politics, labor strikes, religion in the public schools, American military incursions in Mexico, World War I, and the Irish War of Independence.
Extent:
6 manuscript boxes, 1 1/2 manuscript box and 3.25 linear feet

Background

Scope and Content:

Contains the correspondence and personal diaries of Samuel Price. The latter describes events of a general nature and particularly life in the Jewish community in great detail in Newark (1913) and Springfield, Mass. (1913-1962). Of special interest is his extended comments on American politics, labor strikes, religion in the public schools, American military incursions in Mexico, World War I, and the Irish War of Independence.

Scrapbook 1913-1941.

Access

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011, United States
CONTACT:
212-294-8350
reference@ajhs.org