TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Waterman Family Papers. 1838-1942(bulk 1838-1854).

Manuscript Collection No. 560



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Waterman family.
Title: Waterman Family Papers.
Dates: 1838-1942
Bulk Dates: 1838-1854
Quantity: 0.4 linear feet.
Abstract: Poems of Sigmund Waterman, and papers of Leopold Waterman; together with a copy of Two Jewish Pioneers of New Haven: Sigmund and Leopold Waterman (1942) by Guido Kisch. Persons represented include Louise Waterman Wise.
Collection Number: MS-560
Language: Collection material in English and German.

Biographical Sketch

Residents of New Haven, Conn.


Scope and Content Note

Poems of Sigmund Waterman, and papers of Leopold Waterman; together with a copy of Two Jewish Pioneers of New Haven: Sigmund and Leopold Waterman (1942) by Guido Kisch. Persons represented include Louise Waterman Wise.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Waterman Family 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

Justine Wise Polier, by the act of donating the Waterman Family Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by the Waterman Family and their 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

Alternative Forms of Collection

Published in: Historia Judaica, v. 4, no. 1, 1942.

Preferred Citation

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

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-560. Waterman Family Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Waterman Family Papers were received from Justine Wise Polier, New York, New York, in 1965.

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.

Diaries
Immigrants
Jewish authors -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Jewish sermons, American
Jews -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Poetry
Poets, American -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Waterman family -- Manuscripts
Wise, Louise Waterman, -- 1874-1947 -- Correspondence