Friday, August 11, 2017

The picture that drives some of the paper

This picture, from UW Special collections drives the San Francisco/Scwabacher connection.

The label reads "Bornstein, Friend and Schwabacher family members at picnic at Henry Lobe's place Yarrow Point ca 1890-1910

Handwritten on the picture are a list of people.  The rows are hard to figure out so I can't really tell exactly who's who.  Yarrow Point, now a tony neighborhood, would have been very remote and wild.

This would have been a very cliquey closed group including many of the 'Founders' of Temple de Hirsch.

In this picture are two Schwabacher daughters, Stella, who will marry Albert Bornstein, also in the picture.  Also Mina Schwabacher.  I know all three brothers had daughters they named Mina after their mother.  But I don't think I have to know that this is the 'right' Mina.  It doesn't matter.  Mina A. Schwabacher, daughter of Abraham Schwabacher, married Nathan Eckstein (a well known name around here) in 1902.  Nathan Eckstein is not in the picture.  So I would put this picture prior to 1902 when she married.  Between the 1899 and 1905 fair.

Leo Kohn, the founding chair of the Board of Trustees of Temple de HIrsch who held that position for quite a few years is in the picture.

And, most important for me, Fannie Degginger, who ran the 1899 fair and was involved in the others is in the picture.  Top row second from right with the funny bowler hat, kinda looks like the Evil Witch of the West.


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