TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Jessie Mayer Straus Papers. 1901-1957.

Manuscript Collection No. 297



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Mayer, Jessie Straus.
Title: Jessie Mayer Straus Papers.
Dates: 1901-1957.
Quantity: 0.4 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, recital programs, genealogy, photographs, and other materials relating to Mayer's career, her husband, Rabbi Eli Mayer (b. 1880), and the Mayer and Straus families.
Collection Number: MS-297
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Violinist, of Cincinnati, Ohio.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, recital programs, genealogy, photographs, and other materials relating to Mayer's career, her husband, Rabbi Eli Mayer (b. 1880), and the Mayer and Straus families.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Jessie Mayer Straus 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

Ruth Brav, by the act of donating the Jessie Mayer Straus Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Jessie Mayer Straus 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 Jessie Mayer Straus Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-297. Jessie Mayer Straus Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Jessie Mayer Straus Papers were received from Ruth Brav, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, in 1985.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

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.

Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
Mayer family
Mayer, Eli -- 1880-1920
Mayer, Jessie Straus -- Manuscripts
Myers family
Straus family
Strauss family
Violin -- Performance
Women musicians -- Ohio -- Cincinnati