Lipschutz Bank record books (7 volumes) contain information about more than 3000 steamship tickets purchased for travel from Europe (ID: 30134)
Title or Main Description:
Lipschutz Bank record books (7 volumes) contain information about more than 3000 steamship tickets purchased for travel from Europe to the United States during the years 1923-1948. Records are in chronological order by the date of the ticket sale. Entries generally include address, telephone number, age, destination, individual who purchased the ticket (n.b. many of the prepaid tickets were not used by the immigrants for whom they were purchased). There was an article about this collection in 'Toledot', summer 1977 issue
Description:
Number of Names or Other Entries-- 3000
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Source Institution: Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center at the Balch Institute (18 South 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2314, phone # 215-925-8090, extension 228 Lilly Schwartz, archivist, or 229 Don Davis, assistant).
- Institutional Call Number-- MSS 12 Folders 9-12
Keywords:
- United States.
- Ships.
- Refugees.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Emigration and immigration.
Language and Other Notes:
Text in English.
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
- T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\AA0311\AA0311.PDF
- T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\AA0311\AA0311-NOTES.pdf
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AA0311