Hannah Blumenthal Brown Papers

This collection contains clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, a scrapbook, postcards, and photographs. Pamphlets include, “Poem on a fragment of a love letter found in a Savannah cemetery”, 1974 by Gene Ellis; two JEA anniversary pamphlets, and a Hebrew Women's Aid Society anniversary pamphlet. Brown attended Camp Perry-Ann in Brevard, North Carolina, in 1927 and her scrapbook and a pamphlet are included in the collection. At the time, Camp Perry-Ann was the only camp in the South exclusively for Jewish girls. The scrapbook contains various types of material including notes from campers, photographs, postcards, clippings, and ephemera. Clippings are about Hannah Blumenthal Brown including descriptions of her graduation from Cornell, her work at Chatham High School, and her wedding to Melvin Brown. There are also clippings about the Blumenthal family. Some clippings of note are about Fannie Blumenthal’s work with the Hebrew Women’s Aid Society and the Daughters of B’nai B’rith Jacob Congregation and Samuel Blumenthal’s work with the Aldermanic Board of Savannah Beach. Other topics include the family’s summer travels and an important announcement that they purchased property for B’nai B’rith Jacob Congregation to use for the Savannah Hebrew School.