- Collection:
- Leo M. Frank Collections
- Title:
- the Herbert Schiff Family Papers
- Creator:
- Schiff, Herbert G. Sr., 1894-1938
Schiff, Herbert G. Jr., 1920-2014
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Frank, Lucille Selig, 1888-1957 - Date of Original:
- 1915
- Subject:
- Trials (Murder)--Georgia
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
Antisemitism--Georgia
National Pencil Company--Employees
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Family
Jewish businesspeople
Jewish engineers
Jewish families
Jews--Georgia--Atlanta
Jews--Georgia--History
Prisoners--Georgia--Social conditions - People:
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Frank, Lucille Selig, 1888-1957
Schiff, Herbert G., Sr., 1894-1938 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- family papers
correspondence - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Materials in this folder include correspondence between Leo Frank, Lucille Frank, and Herbert Schiff, Sr., the assistant superintendent at the National Pencil Company. There is a November 1913 letter from Leo and Lucille Frank to Herbert Schiff noting a small gift that had been enclosed, a June 1915 letter from Herbert Schiff to Leo Frank on National Pencil Company letterhead, a June 1915 letter from Leo Frank to Herbert Schiff thanking him for cigarettes and asking him to provide writing supplies, and a July 1915 letter from Leo Frank to Herbert Schiff. Schiff was one of the defense’s key witnesses during Frank's trial. Schiff and Frank continued to correspond during Frank’s time in prison.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_97-016vf-s
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_97-016vf-s#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_97-016vf-s/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 pages; 6.5 x 8 inches
- Original Collection:
- the Herbert Schiff Family Papers
- Holding Institution:
- William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
- Rights:
-
