Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2018.2.10.1-.15Description
Series of 15 photographs covering Early Childhood Program and Germantown Jewish Center, Wyck horticultural activities, and Germantown Womens Education Project. Photos/captions date from 1994-2000.
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Caption .2: "Zayde (Grandpop) Don Gray frys potato latkes (pancakes) for the toddlers in the Early Childhood Program of Germantown Jewish Centre. 'Latke guys' made by the chidren are hanging in the background."
Caption .3: "Hanukkah #3. Left to right: Alexandra Metter and Yigdal Raphael, students in Germantown Jewish Centre's Early Childhood Programs, practice lighting the Chanukkah Menorah." 1994
Caption .4: "Preparing potato latkes, a traditional Hanukkah food, are Jonah Arnold, Zoe Robbin and their teacher Ora Kesselman, at the Early Childhood Program of Germantown Jewish Centre a year ago. Hanukkah is an eight day festival commemorating the victory in 165 B.B. of the Maccabees over Antiochus Epiphanes and the rededication of the Temple at Jerusalem." 11/23/2000
Caption .5: "Lighting the Hanukiah, the Hanukkah menorah, at a holiday celebration at the Early Childhood Program at the Germantown Jewish Centre are Jonah Arnold and his teacher, Ora Kesselman." 12/24/98
Caption .6: "Lighting candles in menorah at Germantown Jewish Center, Lincoln Drive and Ellet St., as part of Hannukah celebration are pupils in the early childhood center Noam Meyer-Deautsch (left) and Mira Rotter. During the eight day festival, one candle is lighted each day using the candle in the center. This recalls the time after the vistory of the Maccabees when there was only enough oil in the Temple to burn for one day bu miraculously it lasted for eight days." 11/27/97
Caption .7: "Gathered around a table for a Hanukkah party at the Germantown Jewish Centre's Early Childhood Center are (from left hand corner) Meredith Stern, Talia Fish, Ari Fish, Stevie Aronsonb, Julia Fusco, Rebekah Levy, Zoe Benditt and (standing) Nomi Teutsch." 12-28-95
Caption .8: "Alexandra Metter (left) and Yigdal Raphael, students in Germantown Jewish Centre's Early Childhood Programs, are learning to light the Hanukkah Menorah from Janice Bershad (center), director of Early Childhood Programs." 12/1/94
Caption .9: "Doug Tague, of Mt. Airy, makes some last minute adjustments at the base of a giant double white bird of paradise before the opening of the Harvest Show. The plant has only bloomed once in 12 years. The show, produced by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, was on September 27 and 28 at the Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park. Tague is a staff member at the center." 10-2-86.
Caption .10: "John Groff, executive director of Wyck, holds an old wicker behhive, which he installed as part of an exhibit at the recent Harvest Show to recall the 18th century house that once stood ona 50-acre farm. Some old tools displayed, in addition to the beehive, included two bug zappers - long poles wrapped with rags, dipped in tar and lighted with fire, a barrow and old rakes. All added to the flavor of Wyck past and present." 10-3-91
Caption .11: "Brooks Mullahy, resident horticulturalist-caretaker at Cliveden, sets up an exhibit at the recent Harvest Show that suggests the walk back into history over three centuries to be found in the gardens at one of the area's most famous historic house museums." 10-3-91
Caption .12: "Ray Rogers, of Mt. Airy, won two bronzes for best of blues in two classes at the recent Harvest Show. One was for his tortoise shell yam (Dioscorea macrostachya) in the Ornamental Plants Grown in Containers section and one for his collection of Salvia in the Herb section. For his five entries in the show he won three firsts, one second and one third." 10-3-91
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Caption .14: Melinda Miller, horticulturalist at Wyck and a Germantown resident, enjoys the setting of a recreated portion of Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion at the recent Harvest Show, until reading an 1870 spring gardening catalog." 10-3-91.
Caption .15: "Peg McGuire (back row, second from left), director of the Germantown Women's Education Project and Virginia Resseger (back row, left) the organization's social worker, with those currently enrolled in the program: (back row, l. ro r.) Rose Leon, Dana Ellington, Tabitha Dudley, Cleo Seahorne, Albertha Ford; (middle l. to r.) Stephanie Blakely, Gigi Blake, Rhonda Gardner, Tracey White, Juanita Bey, Annette Young; (front l. to r.) Sandra Mosley, Alberta CHapman, Stephanie Freeman. Teacher Hannah Ashley is behind Stephanie Freeman. (Pictures by Jeremy Jones)." 12-15-94Collection
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