Arthur Rothstein Utah Photograph Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New
Read more →Roster of Early Jewish Utah Officeholders Ogden Frederick Keisel (1841-1919) achieved two election victories in 1889: he won a two-year term as mayor and a four-year term in the state senate. Rudolph Kuchler (1870-1938) won a four-year state representative term in 1904 and a
Read more →The Simon Bamberger Family Adherents to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) (who do not favor the label of “Mormons”) use the term “gentile” to mean any person who is not LDS. Around the world, Jews do the same thing: they characterize
Read more →The Jewish Agricultural Colony of Clarion, Utah, 1911-1916 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were several attempts to established Jewish agricultural colonies in the United States. The movement, headed by recent immigrants and established backers, sought to settle predominantly Russian Jews on farmlands in
Read more →Jacob “Jake” Bergerman Values Codes I – E – L Jacob “Jake” Bergerman was born in New York in 1855. His parents, Marks and Sarah Bergerman, had emigrated from Prussia. Colorado Territory In 1868, the Bergerman family headed west, settling in the town of Pueblo,
Read more →Samuel Newhouse Values Codes I – E – L – P Samuel Newhouse was born in New York City, in 1854. He was one of nine children of European immigrants. He attended public school and was “reading for the law” when he became interested in mining
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