Medford (Mass.)

This collection contains materials documenting the personal and academic lives of the families of Pearl Anne Bornstein and Joseph Mandell, including their parents, siblings, and children. This includes family photographs, correspondence, notebooks, schoolwork, graduation invitations and programs, newspaper clippings, certificates, music and theater programs, and ephemera.

At the time these photographs were taken in 1981 and 1985, Steven Kellerman was a machinist with an interest in synagogue history. This particular collection of photographs started with Kellerman’s visits to former synagogues in Dorchester and Roxbury, Massachusetts; the project expanded to include most of Massachusetts and other states.