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ANNOTATION ON PHOTO (front, handwritten in blue ink): German: "Zwischen Sommer und Herbst auf der: 'Charlottenruhe'" English: "Between summer and autumn at the: 'Charlottenruhe'" Additional text: "Photo Odenheimer" Description: Landscape photograph showing a stone tower ruin with countryside in the background. The Charlottenruhe appears to be a lookout point or rest stop. Photographer identified as Odenheimer.
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Photo 002_001_0005
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Photo 002_001_0007
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Photo 002_001_0009
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Postcard to Gemmingen, Oppenheimer family home (early 1900s)
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Engagement portrait with 'Oppenheimer (Kaufmann?)' annotation, US address on left
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Front shows a baby portrait (approximately 15 months old), sitting on a fur rug wearing a white outfit. The child is identified as Walther-Leo, photographed in Mannheim in April 1923.
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Photo 002_001_0017
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Engagement Mathilde–Oppenheimer, Gotha, 26 September 1926
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Front shows a group of five women standing together in a park or garden path with bare trees and a stone wall in the background. Winter clothing. If the mother was 45 in January 1931, she was born approximately 1885-1886.
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Front shows a group of five people (four women and one man in center) at the same park location as photo 0022/0023. This appears to be from the same birthday celebration, possibly taken the following month.
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Photo 002_001_0026
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Front shows a baby lying on its stomach on a blanket, smiling. The child was approximately 10 months old when the photograph was taken.
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Front shows a baby lying on a fur rug on a small bench/table, approximately 5 months old.
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'To my dear Uncle and Aunt Oppenheimer' from Karl Zernik (baby photo, c.1920s)
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Photo 002_001_0036
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Front shows an American street scene with "Langenbein's Bakery" and "Paint Supply" shop signs. Several people standing in front. Appears to be the family's American business. The annotation suggests these were sent to Germany to show relatives the family's shop.
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Photo 002_002_0004
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Photo 002_002_0006
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Photo 002_002_0011
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Front shows a portrait of a woman wearing a hat with a feather and pearl necklace, white blouse. The sender is identified as Susanne.
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Photo 002_002_0015
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Front shows an elderly woman standing against a vine-covered wall. She is identified as Baroness (Freifrau) Johanna Esslingen from Schlüchtern (a town in Hesse, Germany), photographed at 93 years of age.
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Postcard from Boston (The Bachelor Studio) to Caroline Oppenheimer, Gemmingen, Baden
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Photo 002_002_0021
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Photo 002_002_0023
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Front shows 8 boys of varying ages in traditional Bavarian Lederhosen (leather shorts) with knee-high socks, white shirts, and suspenders, lined up by height against a painted mountain backdrop. They are identified as the Bohren brothers.
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Photo 002_002_0027
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Photo 002_002_0029
Photo shows a modern 1930s-era apartment building, three stories with ground floor shops, awnings, and balconies. A blue line is drawn on the image marking specific windows/apartment. The handwritten text identifies rooms and residents on the 3rd floor.
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POSTCARD - APARTMENT BUILDING (front with handwritten annotations overlaid on image) Front annotations (German, partially legible): "Salon-Schlafz[immer]" (Living room / Bedroom) "Walters / Doris" (names — Walter's and Doris's rooms?) "3. Stock" (3rd floor) "v. [von] ... Terrasse" (from ... Terrace) Additional text on right margin (German, partially legible): "... am 5. mit dem ... Wohnung da. Platz ... d. St. Kuttscher in Gotha Versand..." Description: Photo shows a modern 1930s-era apartment building, three stories with ground floor shops, awnings, and balconies. A blue line is drawn on the image marking specific windows/apartment. The handwritten text identifies rooms and residents on the 3rd floor.
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Photo 002_002_0036
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Photo 002_002_0038
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Photo 002_002_0040
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Front shows three elderly women standing together in a garden/courtyard with trees and buildings in the background. One of them is identified as "Else," dated 1950.
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Front shows a large group of approximately 20 young people at a formal dance or social event, some holding gingerbread hearts. Taken in a room with landscape paintings on the walls. The group appears to be from the 1911-1912 winter dance season.
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Front shows three children sitting on a garden bench — two girls and a boy (or toddler). The playful title "Der Dreibund" (The Triple Alliance) is a humorous reference to the political Triple Alliance, applied here to the three children. Photographed in Darmstadt, 1924.
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Front shows a young woman sitting on a rock outdoors, reading or writing, in an oval-framed photograph. She is identified as "Trella."
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ANNOTATION ON PHOTO (front, bottom, handwritten): German: "Ostern 1925" English: "Easter 1925" Description: Oval-framed portrait of a smiling young mother holding a newborn baby wrapped in white blankets. Taken at Easter 1925.
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ANNOTATION ON PHOTO (front, top right, handwritten in blue ink): "Norbert 1928." Description: Boy of approximately 5-6 years old sitting in what appears to be a sandpit or construction area, playing with toys including a toy train set. Identified as Norbert, photographed in 1928.
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Letter from Ludwig Haas to 'Frau und Herr Oppenheimer', 2 November 1929
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Front (0012) shows a small child climbing among bushes and trees.
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Front (0014) shows a small boy standing in a garden path with flowers and a greenhouse in the background. Same child as photo 0012/0013 (Walter), June 1930.
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Front shows a family dinner gathering with 9 people around a table (6 adults seated, 2 young women and a boy standing behind). Glasses and dishes on the table suggest a celebration. Location: Munich, February 1932.
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Photograph taken in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1936.
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Another photograph from the Copenhagen trip, 1936.
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The front likely shows a child (Norbert) cycling. Photographed in Basel, Switzerland, 1925. Same Norbert as in group 003 photo 0009.
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Identifies a person named Irmi in the photograph, dated 27 May 1934.
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Photograph taken in Berlin, August 1932.
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Identifies a person named Salome in the photograph, July 1930.
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Identifies a person named Else in the photograph, 5 August 1932.
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Photo of children, November 1932.
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ANNOTATION ON PHOTO (back, handwritten): "Mai 1914 Freiburg" English: "May 1914 Freiburg" Description: Photograph from Freiburg im Breisgau, May 1914 — just before the start of World War I.
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Front shows an elderly man (Fritz Weiler) with a younger man or boy (Charles Fodor).
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Hans Oppenheimer, formal portrait, Berlin 1936
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Identifies a person named Hansi Glaserer, dated 1934.
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Identifies a person named Hansi Glaserer, dated 1938. Same person as in photo 0004 (4 years later).
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A humorous caption describing someone peering through a thread counter (a small magnifying device used in textile work). The front likely shows someone looking through the device.
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Portrait of a boy (Helmut Bosch) at age 2. The studio was on Nymphenburger Straße in Munich.
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Second photo of Helmut Bosch at age 2, same studio session as photo 0027.
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ANNOTATION ON PHOTO (handwritten): "April 1924" Description: Oval-framed portrait of a child, April 1924.
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Front shows three women on a beach/shingle with buildings in the background — a typical Brighton seafront scene.