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Interview with Sam Rothstein

  • CA JMABC A.1998.010, A.2008.007, A.1968.001, A.1971.002, A.2007.017, A.2007.009, A.2011.007, A.2010.055-OH.19.70-06
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  • June 21, 1969
  • Part of Cyril E. Leonoff fonds

An Interview with Sam Rothstein whose family came to Vancouver before World War I and settled in the Strathcona neighborhood. Sam took a PhD in Librarianship in California, and took a job at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was involved in the Waldman Library and the Beth Israel Library.

Woman standing on front steps of restaurant

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts Liliya, identified as "our waitress," standing on the front steps of the restaurant, in Irkutsk.

Note for slide reads: "Building where we had our meals [at the hotel]. Delicious beef stroganoff. Our waitress."

Typical Siberian home

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts the garden and windows of a house in Irkutsk.

Note for slide reads: "Typical Siberian home. Shuttered windows, neat fences."

Railway ticket office

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide possibly depicts people at the ticket office at the Trans-Siberian train station in Irkutsk.

Note for this slide reads: "2 ladies tried to buy a ticket as a souvenir but they were not allowed to even though Lennie our guide pleaded for them. So they went over to vending machines and by inserting [unreadable] coins could buy a ticket to any of the cities enumerated above."

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