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| Chamois (LMG) LEEDM/E/1992/111/6 An 1899 trade card, for J Levi, "Chamois Leather Dresser and Wholesale Sponge Merchant", of 71 Bridge Street, Leeds. |
Business card (JML) 1990.157.32a The card of Arnold Herman Barmaper, Timber Merchant, from Shoreditch in the east end of London. Arnold Barmaper had come to England from Vienna or Lemburg (both were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time) some time after 1886. |
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| Arnold Barmaper (JML) 1990.157.9 Timber-merchant Arnold Herman Barmaper, who came to England from Austria, with staff in his timber yard in Bethnal Green, London in a late 19th century photograph. |
Kosher Butcher (JML) 1993.3 Printed notice in English and Yiddish by Mr L Gersholowitz, "The well-known kosher butcher (from the West End)", for the opening of his shop at 54 Oakley Street, Westminster Bridge Road, London on 28 May 1923. The word 'kosher' means 'fit' or 'proper' and describes food that meets the standards of Jewish law regarding what foods can and cannot be eaten and how those foods must be prepared and eaten. |
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