The company was founded by Karl Straus born in 1845 who was a Jewish German immigrant. Straus arrived in Philadelphia in 1867 and he began a wholesale liquor business. In 1888 he became a tobacco merchant opening his own company named K. Straus & Co. Straus died in 1920 leaving the business to his nephew Adolf Loeb who incorporated the company in 1922.
Wiederholdt, Andreas, 1752?-; Ries, Johann Caspar.; Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814.; Heister, Leopold Philipp von, 1716-1777.; Block, Justus Henrich.; Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1720-1785.; Knyphausen, Wilhelm, Baron von; Scheffer, Francis.; Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921, former owner.; Baum, Jacob.; Recknagel, Caspar.; Donop, Carl Emil Curt von.; Matthaeus, Johann Jost.
Shemu'el ibn 'Azariah.; Rabbah bar Bar Ḥana,; Napoleon; Shabbethai Tzevi,; Hezekiah ben David da Silva,; Nathan,; Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Correspondence.
Ḥayon, Nehemiah Ḥiyya ben Moses,; Shabbethai Tzevi,; Ashkenazi, Ẓevi Hirsch ben Jacob,; Ricchi, Raphael Immanuel ben Abraham Ḥai,; Ḳarpi, Shelomoh Yosef b. Natan. Naḥalat tsevi.
Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365.
Personal Name:
Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar,; Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277. Shamsīyah.; Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner.; Ibrāhīm ibn Mullā Jundī, active 1693, scribe.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner.; Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, associated name, former owner.; Rashīdī, Rizq ibn Yūsuf, active 1836, scribe.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Date:
1836
Language:
Coptic; Arabic
Publisher:
Egypt, [publisher not identified], A.H. 1252 (1836)
Muḥammad,; Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd,; Mustafa Sıdkı, -1769, former owner.; Muḥammad Nāfiʻ, active 1858, former owner.; Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?. Burdah.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Date:
1737
Language:
Arabic
Publisher:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 1150 (1737)
Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413.
Personal Name:
ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, active 1864, former owner.; Qarahʹfaryahʹvī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, active 1642, scribe.; Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner.; Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī, former owner.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Date:
1642
Language:
Arabic
Publisher:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 1052 (1642 or 1643)
Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, Caliph of Egypt, 985-approximately 1021.; Muqtaná, Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 1015-1020.; Ḥamzah ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 1015-1020.