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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.
Corporate Name:
K. Straus and Company Inc.
Date:
1893-1894
Language:
English
Physical Location:
MS 56, Codex 036.1
Date:
1859-1864
Language:
English
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
MS 56, Codex 025.1
Date:
unknown
Language:
English
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Arc.MS.56, Box 9, Folder 13
Contributor:
Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor); Kaplan, Deanne (donor)
Date:
1878
Language:
English
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, MS 56, Codex 024.1
Date:
1792-12-27; 1793-02-10
Language:
English
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Arc.MS.56, Box 8, Folder 4
Date:
1793-01-22; 1793-02-10; 1793-01-29
Language:
English
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:
Arc.MS.56, Box 8, Folder 4
