Metadata: Private photographs
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Täby
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Täby
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- 010-476 70 00
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se/startpage
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/730128/10/K/K_1/K_1_b
- Title:
- Private photographs
- Title (official language):
- Privata fotografier
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish community of Stockholm
- Date(s):
- 1916/1973
- Language:
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 6 volumes (3 boxes and 3 photo albums)
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection consists of six volumes with photographs linked to Jewish life associated with private Jewish individuals in Stockholm. The six volumes hold photographs from 1916 to 1973, as well as some undated photographs. The photographs are taken or collected by private individuals.
The first volume contains 95 photographs from 1946. 13 photographs relate to Abraham Hirsch’s history of famous Swedish Jews, 31 photographs relate to Ellen Raphael’s historical collection (SE/RA/730128/08/12), 13 photographs and photographic plates relate to Jewish political societies (such as the Swedish Zionist Society), 34 photographs are copies of individual portraits, one photograph relates to the 50th birthday of the private individual Arne Lindenbaum, two photographs are from an annual party in 1930, and the last photograph depicts an unidentified group. The photographs are stored in envelopes in a photo box.
The second volume contains 38 photographs from 1946 to 1966, as well as photographs, postcards and brochures from a family trip to foreign countries, among them Israel, in 1966. 10 photographs relate to Ellen Raphael’s historical collection, 15 photographs relate to Nanny Natalie Marcus’s private photograph collection, two photographs relate to the annual general meeting of the Swedish Zionist Society in 1911, unidentified groups are depicted in nine photographs, and two photographs are portraits.
The third volume contains 215 photographs from 1916 to 1973 from Nanny Natalie Marcus’ private photograph collection. The majority of the photographs are portraits or family photographs, and they are stored in envelopes in a photo box. Lastly, the sixth, seventh and eighth volumes are albums with undated portraits. The albums in the sixth and eighth volumes are bound with black leather, while the seventh volume is bound with brown leather, and all of them have name indexes for the individuals in the portraits.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred by the Jewish community of Stockholm to the Swedish National Archives in 1979.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Nanny Natalie Marcus was born in Germany in 1902, the daughter of Samuel Marcus (who died in 1918) and Jenny Marcus (née Feidt, born in 1866 and died in 1945). Her brother Arthur Marcus also died in 1918, but the second brother Benno Marcus (1889-1955) moved to Sweden in 1929 and became a Swedish citizen in 1936. Nanny Natalie Marcus and her mother Jenny Marcus received residence permits in Sweden in 1939, and Nanny Natalie Marcus became a Swedish citizen in 1948. She was unmarried, worked as both a seamstress and an office clerk, and lived in Solna, a northern suburb outside of Stockholm.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hirsch, Abraham
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Photographs
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the collection is restricted to researchers. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance. Applications are made to the Swedish National Archives, which reviews them on behalf of the Jewish community of Stockholm, which makes the decision. The form and instructions can be accessed on the homepage of the Jewish Community of Stockholm: https://jfst.se/fler-tjaenster/oevriga-tjaenster/slaekt-och-personforskning/
- Finding aids:
- The archive that this collection is a part of has been indexed by the archivists Lars Hallberg and Mikaela Nybohm of the Swedish National Archives. The index can be found in a folder at the archive and in the archive’s database NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman; Jewish Museum of Stockholm; June 2020