Summary Information

Title: The Richard E. Rauh Photographs,
Collection Number: msp301
Creator: Richard E. Rauh
Collection Dates: 1891-2000
Extent: 1.75 linear feet 4 boxes
Abstract:

The history of the Rauh family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began in 1870 when Solomon Rauh, a dry-goods merchant, moved to the city. Since that time, four generations of Rauhs have been involved in the Jewish community, in civic affairs, in music and theater arts, and in philanthropy. This collection contains photographs and negatives containing images of Rauh family members as well as dignitaries, artists, and several conductors and musicians who appeared at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Language:

The material in this collection is in English.

Repository:

Rauh Jewish Archives
Senator John Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412-454-6364
library@hswp.org
http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/libraryArchives.aspx

Date Published:

July 2008

Author:

The guide to this collection was written by Susan M. Melnick.

Encoder:

Encoded by Matt Strauss on July 9th, 2008 from an existing finding aid.

History

See finding aid for Richard E. Rauh Papers, MSS #301

Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of 1.50 linear feet of photographs and negatives, arranged as MSP #301. One third of the collection consists of three albums of photographs of Florsheim family and friends. One third consists of negatives--all are block negatives for printing, except for one glass negative. These depict Enoch Rauh or his signature, except for one depicting Bertha Rauh. One third of the collection includes photographs of dignitaries, artists, family members, and of Mayview (the Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital). Some are autographed.

2005 additions:

This addition to the collection consists of .25 linear feet of photographs. The collection consists of family photographs, including those of Samuel and Pauline Floersheim, the grandparents of Bertha F. Rauh; Edna Floersheim, Bertha Rauh’s sister; and Leona Sisenwain, the mother of Helen Wayne Rauh. The collection also includes autographed portraits of Ida Tarbell and of several conductors and musicians who appeared at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, including Eugene Goossens, Yehudi Menuhin, and Percy Graninger.

Controlled Access Terms

Personal Names

• Earhart, Amelia
• Floersheim, Berthold
• Freehof, Rabbi Solomon B.
• Herron, John
• Kline, Charles H.
• Lippman, Babette
• Markham, Edwin
• Menuhin, Yehudi
• Rauh, Babette Schonhof
• Rauh, Bertha Floesheim
• Rauh, Enoch S.
• Rauh, Heinlein
• Rauh, Helen B.
• Rauh, Helen Wayne
• Rauh, Rachel Cohen
• Rauh, Rosalie Lippman
• Rauh, Solomon
• Sisenwain, Edward
• Sisenwain, Helen
• Floersheim, Edna
• Floersheim, Pauline
• Floersheim, Samuel
• Gieseking, Walter
• Goossens, Eugene
• Grainger, Percy
• Kunstler, Hans
• Menuhin, Yehudi
• Sisenwain, Leona
• Tarbell, Ida

Corporate Names

• Carnegie Mellon University--Department of Drama
• Mayview Home and Hospital (Mayview, Pa.)
• Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital (Mayview, Pa.)
• Pittsburgh Council of Nine
• Pittsburgh Playhouse

Topics

• Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
• City councils--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh

Access and Use

Access Restrictions:

None.

Aquisition Information:

These materials came in two accessions and were combined into one collection in August 2001. In 2005, one accession was added to the collection.

Acc# 1999.0100 - Gift of Richard E. Rauh

Acc# 2001.0011 - Gift of Richard E. Rauh

Acc# 2005.0277 Gift of Richard E. Rauh

Preferred Citation:

The Richard E. Rauh Photographs, 1891-2000, MSP#301, Rauh Jewish Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center

Processing Information:

October 15, 2001; records arranged and inventory written by Susan M. Melnick. In January 2006, the 2005 was added to the collection by S. M. Melnick.

Separated Material:

To oversized photograph collection, one file folder arranged as MSR #301.

2005 additions: To oversized photograph collection, one file folder.

Contents List

Box 1

Box

1

Three albums c1840-c1880

Scope and Content Notes: Families represented: Adler; Armhold (Rev. William officiated at Bertha’s wedding); Benswanger; Cohen (Josiah); Dreifus; Ehrlich; Floersheim; Frank (Uncle Frank and Aunt Pauline Wormser); Guckenheimer; Hilb; Hirsh; Levy; Meyer; Oppenheimer; Poppenheimer; Rau (sic); Roedelheimer; Wertheimer; Wolf; Wormser

Box 2

Box

2

Negatives - Bertha and Enoch Rauh, undated

Box 3

Box

3

Mayview (Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital)

Folder

1

Staff, 1929-1931

Folder

2

Physical Plant, undated

Folder

3

Miscellaneous, undated

Folder

3

Charles Wakefield Codman, 1911

Folder

3

Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, 1971

Folder

3

Edwin Markham, 1906

Folder

3

Yehudi and Nola Menuhin, 1939

Folder

3

Theodore Roosevelt

Folder

3

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, 1905

Folder

4

Pittsburgh Playhouse, c1950-c1960

Folder

5

Rauh, Bertha F., c1910-1933

Folder

5

Portraits

Folder

5

At ballgame at Forbes Field, 1923

Folder

5

City Council Cabinet being sworn in, 1926

Folder

5

Dpt. Of Public Welfare with workers, 1926

Folder

5

With Amelia Earhart, 1928

Folder

5

Cabinet of Hon. Charles H. Kline, 1930

Folder

5

Cabinet of Mayor John Herron, 1933

Folder

6

Rauh, Enoch, c1900-1915

Folder

6

Portraits,

Folder

6

Giving address, 1911

Folder

6

Lowering the Hump, 1912

Folder

6

With Richard S. Rauh, in Ventnor, N.J., 1915

Folder

6

With City of Pittsburgh Council, 1915

Folder

7

Rauh, Enoch and Bertha and family, 1891-1973

Folder

7

Bert Floersheim

Folder

7

Samuel Floersheim

Folder

7

Babette Lippman

Folder

7

Family groups

Folder

7

Family dinners

Folder

7

Helen Blanche Rauh

Folder

7

Marcus Rauh

Folder

7

Rachel Cohen Rauh

Folder

8

Rauh family ancestors, 19th century

Folder

8

Babette Schonhof Rauh

Folder

8

Heinlein Rauh

Folder

8

Babette Lippman

Folder

8

Solomon Rauh

Folder

8

Rosalie Lippman Rauh

Folder

9

Rauh (RSR) family home, c1955

Rauh, Helen Wayne (HWR)

Folder

10

c1935-1988

Folder

11

Sisenwain Family, 1907-1988

Folder

11

Mother and grandmother with HWR’s sister Sylvia

Folder

11

HWR with siblings/mother, 1915

Folder

11

Edward Sisenwain with sisters and father, Mary Constance Schuller, housekeeper/nanny

Theater roles

Folder

12

Carnegie Institute of Technology theater roles, 1930-1932

Folder

13

Pittsburgh Playhouse theater roles, 1935-1970

Rauh, Richard E. Rauh

Folder

14

1941-1950

Folder

15

Dedications, 1999-2000

Folder

16

Theater roles, 1951-1999

Folder

17

Rauh, Richard S., 1901-c1950

2005 additions:

Box 4

Folder

1

Floersheim, Edna, n.d.

Folder

2

Floersheim, Pauline and Samuel, n.d.

Folder

3

Gieseking, Walter, 1933

Folder

4

Goossens, Eugene, 1928

Folder

5

Grainger, Percy, 1931

Folder

6

Kunstler, Hans

Folder

7

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1942

Folder

8

Penrose, Boris, n.d.

Folder

9

Rauh, Richard E., c1947-c1976

Folder

10

Sisenwain, Leona, n.d.

Folder

11

Tarbell, Ida, 1939