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Guide to the Schlagel and Wolf family papers 2013.008

Schlagel and Wolf family papers

Call Number

2013.008

Date

circa 1919-circa 1987, inclusive

Creator

Federman, Amy Schlagel
Drucker, Mildred Wolf
Schlagel, Helen Wolf
Schlagel, Laurie (Role: Donor)

Extent

3.5 Linear Feet
in three boxes and three oversize folders

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

This collection consists of items that date from circa 1919 to circa 1979 and represent the student and work life of three generations of Brooklyn women. The collection comprises books, pamphlets, and published reports used as research material for an unpublished graduate thesis on the history of breweries in Brooklyn, New York.The collection contains items relating to Brooklyn College, including copies of issues of a student newspaper for the House Plan Association (HPA), school report cards, student work, and memorabilia, such as a school ring, medals, and a pendant. The collection also contains records and artifacts from Wolf's shoe store (1009 Flushing Avenue), including business correspondence, a rental property ledger, tools, and other objects. Finally, the collection also contains New York City government forms and information regarding stenography and the civil service.

Biographical note

Mildred Wolf's husband, Alexander Wolf, was the owner of Wolf's Shoes, located on the borders of the Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn. After his death in 1919, Mildred settled his business debts and the store was closed. She married Irving Drucker around 1920 or 1921; they owned several rental properties including 1007 and 1009 Flushing Avenue – 1007 had been the location of Wolf's Shoes. The retail space of 1009 was rented out to M. Berman Hardware.

Helen Wolf (daughter of Mildred Wolf Drucker) graduated from Brooklyn College in 1937. As a student, she founded the campus House Plan Association (HPA). She later became a psychologist, working at the Community School (a private school) and elsewhere.

Amy Schlagel (daughter of Helen Wolf Schlagel) was a graduate student at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, in the mid-1970s.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of items that date from circa 1919 to circa 1979 and represent the student and work life of three generations of Brooklyn women. The collection comprises books, pamphlets, and published reports used as research material for an unpublished graduate thesis on the history of breweries in Brooklyn, New York.The collection contains items relating to Brooklyn College, including copies of issues of a student newspaper for the House Plan Association (HPA), school report cards, student work, and memorabilia, such as a school ring, medals, and a pendant. The collection also contains records and artifacts from Wolf's shoe store (1009 Flushing Avenue), including business correspondence, a rental property ledger, tools, and other objects. Finally, the collection also contains New York City government forms and information regarding stenography and the civil service.

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Conditions Governing Access

Open to researchers without restriction.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status of the collection has not been evaluated. Please consult library staff for more information.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date (if known); Schlagel and Wolf family papers, 2013.008, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.

Separated Materials

The following books have been transfered to the BHS Library's Main Collection: Montauk Beach (1932), Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center (1974), New York and The Future (1945), Board of Education Guide to Teaching Social Studies To Grades Three and Four (1947-1948), Operation New York Resource Book (1960), Guide to New York City Landmarks (1978), three Street Guides To Brooklyn (1917 and circa 1910s), and one map of Brooklyn (circa 1902).

Other Finding Aids

Item-level records for artifacts available in the library's in-house artifact catalog.

Collection processed by

Shakeya Huggins, under the supervision of John Zarrillo

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Processing Information

The collection is processed to the series-level.

Repository

Brooklyn Historical Society

Container

Box: 2 of 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3 of 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Oversize: OS-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1 of 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series 1: Mildred Wolf Drucker papers, 1914-1980s, inclusive; 1919-1959, bulk

Language of Materials

English.

Scope and Contents

Contains papers regarding the estate of Alexander Wolf, including business correspondence and canceled checks from Wolf's Shoes. Also contains the following items from the Wolf Shoe Store: two pairs of metal shoe trees, one wooden shoe stretcher, cobbler tools, and one metal bracket labeled "Home Shoe Shiner." There is also a ledger book containing accounts for rental properties at 1007 and 1009 Flushing Avenue (circa 1928-1939). The papers also include receipts and correspondence regarding general expenses (fuel, Con Ed, telephone) and maintenance for a home at 1508 Sheepshead Court (circa 1950s), as well as miscellaneous material regarding a home at 3310 Shore Parkway (sold 1959). This series also includes information, application forms, practice tests, a study book for civil service stenographer/typist positions (circa 1950s) and correspondence regarding payment for secretarial work.

Series 2: Helen Wolf Schlagel papers, circa 1928-circa 1987, inclusive; 1930-1939, bulk

Scope and Contents

Contains multiple copies of several issues (Feb-Apr 1955) of Calling Card a newsletter of Brooklyn College House Plan Association (HPA), including an article on Helen Wolf Schlagel about founding the HPA newsletter. There is also miscellaneous school work, programs, college publications.This collection also consists of a June 1941 issue of New York Teacher magazine; two copies of a 1937 Brooklyn College commencement program; menu from Joe's Carroll Sweet Shoppe, 323 New Lots Avenue (1934); some personal correspondence and photographs. The collection also includes class jewelry belonging to Helen Wolf as follows: class ring with the initals HRW inscribed inside, St. Agatha medal with intials TJHS (Thomas Jefferson High School) inscribed on reverse, TJHS pendant with HRW '33 inscribed on reverse, Girls Branch Public School Athletic League Honor Society Pin (GBPSAL), GBPSAL medal, NYSU Teachers Union pin.

Series 3: Amy Schlagel Federman research papers circa 1970s, 1970s, inclusive

Scope and Contents

This series contains two photocopies of a typescript of Amy Schlagel Federman's master's thesis, "Nineteenth Century Brewery Architecture in America, with Reference to Brooklyn, New York," submitted May 7, 1976: photographs (mostly prints, some negatives) taken for research purposes and for use as visual material in the thesis; photocopies of the photographs; architectural survey forms on Brooklyn brewery buildings; and some handwritten notes on legal paper (damaged). Also contains survey forms, notes, photocopies, and photographs (prints and negatives) for a research project on New York City armory architecture. Also contains 100 Years of Brewing (New York Arno Press; 1974) and a reprint of the original 1903 work, which was a supplement to The Western Brewer.

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