TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Sigmund Shlesinger Papers. 1868-1975.

Manuscript Collection No. 130



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Shlesinger, Sigmund, 1848-1928.
Title: Sigmund Shlesinger Papers.
Dates: 1868-1975.
Quantity: 0.4 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, diary, publications, clippings, and other materials relating to Shlesinger's military career, Indians, the Battle of Beecher Island (1868), and his later years in Cleveland, Ohio.
Collection Number: MS-130
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

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Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, diary, publications, clippings, and other materials relating to Shlesinger's military career, Indians, the Battle of Beecher Island (1868), and his later years in Cleveland, Ohio.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Sigmund Shlesinger Papers are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

Mrs. Max Frankenberger and Carol M. Portman, by the act of donating the Sigmund Shlesinger Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Sigmund Shlesinger and his heirs. Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Sigmund Shlesinger Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-130. Sigmund Shlesinger Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Sigmund Shlesinger Papers were received from Mrs. Max Frankenberger, Charleston, West Virginia, in 1954 and Carol M. Portman, University City, Missouri, in 1978.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.



Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the AJA's online catalog.

Beecher Island, Battle of, 1868
Diaries
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1868-1869
Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland
Shlesinger, Sigmund, -- 1848-1928