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Bangor
12 girl scouts and 2 scout leaders
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
3 Bangor women
(circa 1900) -
A carpenter inside Bangor JCC
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
a group listening to a speaker
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Adolph (Abe) Friedman honored with plaque for service to Israel
(Dec 1954) - Bangor Public Library
Arthur Lipsky and Another on "City of Bangor"
(date not known) - Paula Adelman
AZA (Bangor) Basketball Team
(1933) - Avra Grodinsky Novarr
B'nai B'rith Membership Record of D A Rosen
(1949-1950) - Bangor Public Library
Bangor Community Center Seder - 1947 cat the Jewish Community Center , Somerset St., Bangor
(1947) - Ellen Russell
Bangor Community Hebrew School, 3rd & 4th Graders
(1978) - Bangor Public Library
Bangor Eagle Scouts and their project "It�s a picture of me, David Berg, on the left, leading my Eagle Scout project in 1980 at the JCC/Hebrew Academy of Bangor. The project was to build storm windows for the long hallway in the school wing."
(1981) - Bangor Public Library
Bangor Groundbreaking for Addition to JCC
(1960) - Bangor Public Library
Bangor Group of 23 Women
(date not known) - Avra Grodinsky Novarr
Bangor Hebrew School - Medal winners
(1946-1947) - Marcia Lieberman
Bangor Hebrew School Kindergarten 1953
(12/1/1953) - Judy Gatchell
Bangor High School football team, newspaper photo
(1926) - Wilma Richlin Antman
Bangor JCC Group Photo during WWII
(1942) - Judy Gatchell
Bangor JCC Nomination Committee
(1974) - Bangor Public Library
Bangor JCC Nursery School Class of 1955
(1955) - Bangor Public Library
Bangor JCC trip to NY and DC
(circa 1959) - Gail Kaprow Ginsberg
Bangor Jewish Community Center Nursery School Graduation
(circa 1956) - Annette Chason
Bangor seder moment
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Bangor Theatre presentation
(1948 circa) - Priscilla Grossman Williams
Bangor United Jewish Appeal Campaign Cabinet
(1978) - Bangor Public Library
Best Campers, Camp Sasone there are other campers seated in the background
(1969) - Bangor Public Library
Bnai Brith speaker event
(date not known) - Paula Rolsky
Camp Sasone children 'running' on a log and swimming
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Camp Sasone group photo
(1980) - Linda Thompson
Camp Sasone Group photo with thirteen campers and five counselors
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Captain Gordon shows 'Flying Torah,' Bangor
(1945) - Bangor Public Library
Captain Gordon, pilot, and 'Flying Torah,' Bangor
(1945) - Bangor Public Library
Cast of Awake and Sing at Bangor JCC
(date not known) - Gail Kaprow Ginsberg
Celia and Leo Viner Wedding Photograph
(circa 1947) - Diane Medwed Cohen
Chanukah lighting
(12/7/1969) - Amy Rolnick
Cohen shop, Bangor
(c. 1930) - Bangor Public Library
Community News Vol 1 no 1 top half of cover page
(Oct 25 1938) - Elizabeth Stevens
Community Newsletter
(2011) - Paula Rolsky
Community Newsletter - page 3 Cover page and second page is missing;
(Sept 1990) - Paula Rolsky
Community Newsletter - page 4 Cover page and second page is missing;
(Sept 1990) - Paula Rolsky
Community Newsletter I
(2011) - Paula Rolsky
Cooper, Medwed and Pilot Family at community dinner
(circa 1947) - Diane Medwed Cohen
Dance Party II
(date not known) -
David Rubinoff and Mertice Ashby marriage under the chupah Box 13 Folder 8
(1942) - Elizabeth Stevens
Eight kids in winter clothes
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Eight Women at the JCC
(1957) - Bangor Public Library
Eighteen young graduates in full white graduation gowns
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Family gathered for dinner
(circa 1967) - Amy Rolnick
Family Passover Seder, Bangor
(c. April 1940) - Bangor Public Library
Five men working around a table
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Five women and a young girl
(circa 1950) -
Five women from long ago
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Five young children holding 'We are One' posters
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Five young guys
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Four women from long ago
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Four young children cooking together
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Fourteen men at a working lunch
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Friendship Club outing to Lakewood Theater Gertrude Berg was Molly Goldberg
(date not known) - Paula Rolsky
Gimpel Strair Memorial Board - Beth Abraham (Bangor) IV
(2019) - Mike Rolnick and Paul Schneider
Group at a picnic
(date not known) - Paula Rolsky Adelman
Group Gathering
(date not known) - Paula Adelman
Group of well dressed young men
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Gussie Smith Memorial Board - Beth Abraham (Bangor) III
(2019) - Mike Rolnick and Paul Schneider
Harold Gordon with 'Flying Torah,' Bangor
(1945) - Bangor Public Library
Harry Cohen and family
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Hebrew Academy of Bangor children's demonstration with signs reading - We Are One
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Hebrew school classroom with fifteen students
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Hebrew school meal
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Hebrew School Medal Winners
(1946-1947) - Bangor Public Library
Israel bonds fund-raising dinner, Bangor
(c. 1970) - Bangor Public Library
Israel Bonds Fundraiser with key note speaker Sen William Cohen Box 13 Folder 13
(1970s) - Elizabeth Stevens
Israel Bonds fundraising dinner, Bangor, 1970s
(c. 1970) - Bangor Public Library
Israeli Student Visitors in Bangor
(1979) - Bangor Public Library
Jewish Community Center Arts and Crafts Room
(1948) - Marcia Lieberman
Jewish Community Center Nursery School
(1945) - Marcia Lieberman
Kenneth Grossman - Bar Mitzvah Group photo
(1960) - Priscilla Grossman Williams
Large group of twenty somethings
(circa 1925) - Linda Gotlib Rich
Marcia Berson's Eighth Birthday Party
(date not known) - Marcia Berson Lieberman
Members of Beth Abraham Players “The Odd Couple”
(1977) - Bangor Public Library
Minsky Family Photograph Box 13 Folder 5 - see finders aide for names
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Mohawks Basketball Team
(circa 1924) - Marcia Lieberman
Mrs Goldberg and Ruth Goldsmith
(1910ca) - Marcia Lieberman
Nine children and their teacher
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Penobscot Poultry Co. exhibit
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Penobscot Poultry Company
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Ping pong game with six young people
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Play rehearsal at JCC This was a rehearsal for a production of The Odd Couple at the JCC: Jeffrey Kirwan
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Portrait of a baby
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Portrait of a couple
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Portrait of a young man
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Portrait of sixteen men in two rows
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Portrait of Solomon and Annie Costrell with their three children Box 18 Folder 49 -see finders aide for additional descriptions
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Portrait of two couples I
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Portrait of two men and one woman
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Poultry Trade Show, Penobscot Poulty Co
(1955 ca) - Marcia Lieberman
Queen City Market owned by the Gotlib Family of Bangor
(date not known) - Judith Fish Cohen
Regional UJA Conference from
(October 16, 1981) - Bangor Public Library
Rolnick Auto Supply
(date not known) - Amy Rolnick
Rolnick family photo
(circa 1950) - Amy Rolnick
Rothstein Family
(date not known) - Marcia Berson Lieberman
Sam Smith Memorial Board - Beth Abraham (Bangor) I
(2019) - Mike Rolnick and Paul Schneider
Sam Smith Memorial Board - Beth Abraham (Bangor) IV
(2019) - Mike Rolnick and Paul Schneider
School photo - Tante Ittel Group Box 13 Folder 16
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Senior Citizens Friendship Club 3rd Annual Dessert Fashion Show
(May 21, 1969) - Bangor Public Library
Setting up shop, Bangor, 1902
(1902) - Bangor Public Library
seven kids and Sparky the Fire Dog
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Seven men at Ground Breaking Ceremonies
(Apr-60) - Elizabeth Stevens
Seven women and one man at the JCC for Chanukah
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
seven young children and their teacher
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Share, Miller, Striar, Hartstone and Seiden Families, Pine Street Box 8 Folder 23
(1938) - Elizabeth Stevens
Shari Lewis and two kids with face paint
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
six boys and a coach on a basketball court
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
six kids and their teacher cooking a meal
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Six men at a community dinner
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Six young girls singing on a stage
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Sixteen little kids with their two teachers
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Smith Rolnick Wedding at JCC Bessie was also known as Brindle: Amy Rolnick
(Feb 4 1934) - Lynn Higgins
Sons and Daughters of Zion
(6/9/1920) - Norman Minsky
State Zionist Convention Box 6 Folder 22
(June 3-4, 1944) - Elizabeth Stevens
Striar/Cooper Family Seder
(1947) - Sheila Striar
Striar/Cooper Family Seder 1
(1947) - Sheila Striar
Sweet 16 Dance Party Bangor 1958
(1958) - Paula Adelman
Sweet 16 Dance Party Bangor 1958 II
(1958) - Paula Adelman
Sweet 16 party
(date not known) -
Sweet 16 Party
(Year not known) - Judy Chamoff Gatchell
Tefillen Group, Beth Israel Synagogue
(date not known) - Marcia Berson Lieberman
ten boys, two girls, and a teacher next to a piano
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Ten campers and their counselor basketweaving
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Ten young graduates and their teacher
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
The Rolnick sisters
(date not known) - Amy Rolnick
Three children playing with trucks
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Three kids and three adults in JCC doorway
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Torah Dedication
(1929) - Susan Cummings-Lawrence
Twelve young boys making model airplanes
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
two children drawing in a classroom
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Two children in costumes for Sukkot
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Two men and a woman working together
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Two men on the front porch
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Two men playing guitars
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Two parents and a child in front of old car
(date not known) - Paula Adelman
Two women and two men at a banquet table
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Two women and two men posing in front of a prop
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Two women working on a painting
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
two young graduates in full white graduation gowns
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Two young performers with Shari Lewis
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
Unknown child
(date not known) - Beverly Shapiro?
Unknown man with moustache
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Vacation to the Catskills
(circa 1975) - Marcia Lieberman
Viner family photo
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Viner group photo
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Visiting JCC Liss Memorial Building 2 adults,2 girls a boyscout and a man in uniform on the steps of LISSMemorail Building
(May 1952) - Bangor Public Library
Wedding of David Rubinoff and Mertice Ashby, Beth Israel, Bangor, 1942
(1942) - Bangor Public Library
Wedding photo from Lieberman family
(date not known) - Marcia Lieberman
Wedding portrait of young couple
(date not known) - Bob Stern
William Leffler II , A Study of Congregation Ahawas Achim, Bangor, Maine for 1849 to 1856 from the Minutes of the Congregation
(May 1957) - Avraham Tracy / David Freidenreich
Woman in the drivers seat
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Woman with young boy
(circa 1950) - Bob Stern
Woman with young child
(date not known) - Bob Stern
Worked for Max Ginsberg 1
(date not known) - Marcia Berson Lieberman
Worked for Max Ginsberg 2
(date not known) - Marcia Berson Lieberman
Yaacov Zerubavel Speaking at the U.J.A
(date not known) - Bangor Public Library
Yiddish book title page published in Russia in 1890
(1890) - Elizabeth Stevens
Youth community dinner
(date not known) - Elizabeth Stevens
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