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Valentin Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3818 / MF 570

Scope and Content Note

Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.

Family histories, family trees, and correspondence with individuals about genealogy, including Bernhard Brilling and Jacob Jacobson.

Dates

  • Creation: 1677-2002

Creator

Language of Materials

This collection is in German, Hebrew.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Collection is microfilmed - MF 570 - except for Addenda 2 and 3.

Memoir of Samuel Liepman-Lowen [C. I. 9] is microfilmed, use MM 104.

Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

The Valentins were a Berlin family whose ancestors settled there in the seventeenth century.

Extent

1 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Abstract

Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.

Other Finding Aid

17-page inventory.

Microfilm

Collection is available on 2 reels of microfilm (MF 570).
  1. Reel 1: AR 3818; Addenda 1-AR 3822; E IV
  2. Reel 2: AR 3824, G I - AR 3818-3823

Separated Material

Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.

Removed to the LBI Memoir Collection: Memoir of banker Samuel Liepman-Loewen (ME 762), handwritten in 1824, 22 pages.

Related Names

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Valentin Family Collection, 1677-2002 AR 3818 / MF 570
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by LBI Staff
Date
© 2009
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Revision Statements

  • 2010-12-17 : encoding of linking to digital objects from finding aid was changed from <extref> to <dao> through dao_conv.xsl
  • 2012-03-22: TRM: Removed references to Art and Objects materials in "Separated Materials" note (these items pertain to a different collection), added links to memoirs and photographs

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository

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Contact:
15 West 16th Street
New York NY 10011 United States

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