Nathan Family Papers
Item
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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
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Contact information: phone number
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001 2122948301
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Contact information: email
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RCMiller@cjh.org (archive and library services)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
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Reference number
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P-54
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Nathan Family Papers
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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Nathan family
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Date(s)
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1791/1963
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Language(s)
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eng
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heb
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yid
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Extent
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1 half box and 1 oversized folder
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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This collection contains correspondence, business documents, marriage contracts, and other manuscript materials from the Nathan family. The materials related to Grace Seixas Nathan, daughter of the Sephardic merchant Isaac Mendes Seixas and sister of Gershom Mendes Seixas, are particularly interesting.
These materials include:
Folder 2: correspondence with her niece, Sarah Seixas Kursheedt (Gershom Mendes Seixas' daughter), from 1814-1821.
Folders 10 and 11: Grace Nathan's Poetry manuscript (1805-1830).
Transcriptions of this manuscript are in folder 12.
Digital copies of these materials are available on the archive's website.
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Archival history
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This collection resulted from donations by David de Sola Pool in 1947 and the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation in 1979.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The Nathan family was involved in the American Jewish communities of both New York and Philadelphia, and it was linked to the Mendes Seixas family by marriage ties; Simon Nathan (1746-1822), the first member of the Nathan family to arrive in the colonies in 1773, married Grace Seixas (1752-1831), daughter of Isaac Mendes Seixas (c. 1709-1781), a Portuguese Jew who had arrived in New York in 1738. Other family members represented in this collection are Seixas Nathan (1785-1852), Gershom Nathan (1821-1864), Frederick Nathan (1844-1918) and Maud Nathan (1862-1946).
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Koelliker, Boni Joi. 2016. Guide to the Papers of the Nathan Family, undated, 1791-1963, P-54.
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System of arrangement
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The collection is arranged chronologically by date.
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Access, restrictions
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The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of the Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, except for items restricted due to their fragility. The entire collection was digitized in June 2016 and is available online.
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Center for Jewish History Digital Archive
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
