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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Harriet Rochlin Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life ca. 1845-1991
Collection number:
441
Creator:
Rochlin, Harriet 1924-
Extent:
2248 photographs and 1623 photocopies in Fourteen boxes. (7 linear feet)
Four oversize boxes.
Abstract:
Harriet Rochlin began collecting Western Jewish photographs in the late 1960s to illustrate articles she was writing on Jewish pioneering in the American West. The collection grew significantly when she and her late husband, Fred Rochlin, contracted with Houghton Mifflin to compose an illustrated social history, Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West. The book spans Jewish life in the Spanish, Mexican, and American Far West from 1571 to 1912. The majority of the photographs (2248) and photocopied images (1623) track the Jewish Westward Migration from secret Sephardic Jews in flight from the Mexican Colonial Inquisition, to tens of thousands of openly Jewish families rooted throughout the Far West by 1912, the end of the territorial period. She has continued to collect images for articles, essays, slide narratives, and for a work-in-progress, A Mixed Chorus: Jewish Women in the American West, 1849 to 1924.
Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
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