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Romany Coppersmiths workshop

National Museum of American History

Romany Coppersmiths workshop
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Object Details

sova.nmah.ac.0161_ref190
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8343c56c8-50fd-4c11-8f92-a64dc6038254
Collection Photographer
Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989
Collection Author
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )
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Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection
Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection / Series 7: Photographs by de Wendler Funaro: Gypsies in the United States / 7.1: Rom
Container
Box 5, Folder 4
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection Rights
Photographs by de Wendler-Funaro are available for reproduction. Fees for commercial use. Permission to reproduce photographs by Alexander Alland must be granted by the photographer's estate; other photographs may have copyright restrictions.
Scope and Contents note
Demonstration of metal-utensil repair processes in a workshop situation. The Romany Coppersmiths workshop, 214 Bowery, grew out of an approach made by Steve Kaslov to President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. Eleanor Roosevelt's referral to the Foreign Language Information Service, Inc., a social service agency for the foreign-born, led the way to establishment of the workshop. Read Lewis of the PLIS, Chairman of the Intersection Committee on Gypsy Problems of the Welfare Council and its Special Committee for a Gypsy Workshop organized a fund-raising campaign in February 1939. By September 1939 he reported that the workshop was proceeding slowly. Also in 1939 the Gypsies associated with the workshop made a brooch for Eleanor Roosevelt on commission. In October 1940 Steve Kaslov was still writing on letterhead stationery identifying him as manager of the Romany Coppersmiths. We do not know how long the workshop was in operation; it is unlikely it continued after Steve Kaslov was imprisoned in 1942. Letters referring to Romany Coppersmiths are in the collection (box 2, folder 2). Correspondence of Steve Kaslov with Eleanor Roosevelt is in the FDR Library at Hyde Park, N.Y.; copies are in the reference file, Division of Community Life. #99.
Collection Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
NMAH.AC.0161_ref190
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8343c56c8-50fd-4c11-8f92-a64dc6038254
NMAH.AC.0161
ACAH
Record ID
ebl-1503511590219-1503511590244-0

  • Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection


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