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Sadie Goldman was a Jewish resident of Springfield, Illinois. This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and ephemera that represent her interests and experiences as a Jewish woman in the early and mid-1900s.
Sadie Goldman (née Stern) was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1898. The daughter of Russian immigrants Abraham Stern (1868-1908) and Margaret "Maggie" Iker Stern (1871-1926), she grew up in Springfield, Illinois. In the early 1920s, Sadie Goldman founded Stern Furniture Co., a Springfield department store, with her brothers Harry M. Stern (1896-1961) and Samuel Stern (1900-1943). Here, she worked as a salesperson, as well as the business's secretary and treasurer. She married Joseph Goldman (1900-1972) in 1938. Sadie Goldman died in Springfield, Illinois, in 1973.
This collection contains a scrapbook created by Sadie Goldman and detached scrapbook pages. The contents of the scrapbook include newspaper clippings that describe Stern Furniture Co. and the Stern family, as well as events relevant to Springfield's Jewish community. The clippings also include advertisements that are targeted at women and/or Jewish persons. The bound scrapbook spans 1914-1939, and the loose pages, which are housed in permalife folders according to their approximate date of origin, span 1914-1957.
The scrapbook was donated by Sybil Mervis (née Stern) in 2021 and additional pages and clippings were donated in 2022. Sybil Mervis and Sadie Goldman were first cousins once removed.
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