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Albert M. Greenfield papers

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  • "The Albert M. Greenfield papers consist of correspondence, office files, appointment books, photographs, audio-visual materials, and scrapbooks spanning almost fifty years of business and personal records. The collection reflects Greenfield's career as a real estate mogul, banker, department store developer, mortgage financier, motion-picture theater owner, hotelier, philanthropist, and Philadelphia City commissioner. He also served as delegate to national conventions of both the Democratic and the Republican parties, and was appointed to commissions by Philadelphia mayors and U.S. presidents, keeping thorough records of his involvement in multiple social, political, religious, and business organizations."
  • "The Albert M. Greenfield papers have been arranged into seven series: Correspondence and select office files (1921-1967), Donald Jenks (1951-1954), John J. O'Shea (1955-1963), Edna Kraus Greenfield (1922-1930), Appointment books (1932-1967), Graphics and audio-visual materials (1922-1969), and Publications, volumes and scrapbooks.The bulk of the collection is made up of incoming and outgoing correspondence, both personal and business related. "Select office files" refers to items such as minutes, financial information, newspapers clippings, blueprints, reports, pamphlets, booklets, maps, legal documents, press releases, publications, inter-office memoranda, architectural drawings, greeting cards, and other graphic material. Categories covered in the collection include business, personal, political, civic, philanthropic, Jewish affairs, and miscellaneous. As is standard with businesses records, the date order of material goes from the most recent date to the earliest. Although Greenfield started a new sequence of files at the beginning of the year, correspondence from the preceding year may appear in the beginning of a file starting a new sequence. Greenfield's family correspondence largely consists of letters from his three wives, five children, three stepchildren, twenty-one grandchildren and siblings. Since many of his family members were employed by his various business entities the line between personal and business matters is often blurred. However, the letters do offer insightful glimpses of the relationships between family members. The correspondence with his children includes letters from summer camp, college, while serving in the military in World War II, or as newlyweds seeking personal and financial advice. The collection also includes Greenfiled's correspondence with his wives. His first marriage, to Edna Kraus, lasted for twenty-one years and ended in divorce in 1935. He married again in 1937 to Etelka Joseph Schamberg, who was the widow of one of his associates. Their marriage lasted until her death in 1949, and Greenfield maintained correspondence with Etelka's daughter Yvonne until her own death in 1959. There are also letters between Greenfield and Yvonne's only daughter, Sharon. Greenfield married for the third time in 1952; this marriage, to Elizabeth Murphy Hallstrom, lasted until his death. The collection contains not only letters between them but also between Greenfield and Elizabeth Murphy's two children from her previous marriage. The collection also includes papers produced by Donald Jenks and John J. O'Shea, personal assistants to Albert M. Greenfield during the 1950s and part of the 1960s. The material in these series complements, duplicates, or overlaps documents produced by Greenfield. The part of the collection related to Edna Kraus, Greenfield's first wife, includes personal correspondence and financial documents.The rest of the collection is comprised of Greenfield's appointment books, audio-visual materials ranging from numerous photographs documenting his life to audio recordings of interviews and speeches, and several voluminous scrapbooks documenting the 1936 National Democratic Convention and the work of the United States Constitution 175th Anniversary Commission."

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  • "Clippings"
  • "Pamphlets"
  • "Reports"

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