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  • Collection: Jewish Life in Champaign-Urbana

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In 1919, Jos. Kuhn & Co. became the first clothier to accept a shipment of clothing from a commercial airplane. The plane flew Society Brand clothes down from Chicago. Isaac Kuhn is pictured fifth from the right.

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Kuhn's "The College Book" catalog (interior)

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The W. Lewis & Co. Department Store was destroyed in Champaign’s St. Patrick Day Fire, March 17, 1915.

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Live advertisement of Minshall Electric Organ by Macon Music during Eisner Foods opening day in Urbana.

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M. Lowenstern and Co. advertisement in the Champaign County Herald

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Portrait of Morris Lowenstern (1836-1916), owner of M. Lowenstern & Co.

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Mount Hope Cemetery, Champaign, was established in 1856.

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Newspaper announcement concerning the movement of a Jewish cemetery north of Urbana to Mount Hope.

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Nathan Stern photograph

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Max Eichberg's New York Store: Dry Goods & Carpets and Opera Hall in Champaign, IL.
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