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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number GASTER/1/A/1/158
TitleBaker, Percy and Edith: New Year card
DateEarly 20th century
DescriptionCard of greeting for Jewish New Year from 'Mr and Mrs Percy P. Baker', 9 Radnor Road, Brondesbury Park, London NW6.
Extent1 item
AdminHistoryPercy Paul Baker, born 1875; merchant; Zionist; Chairman, Friendly Societies' Council; Chairman, Tozereth Haaretz Committee of the Zionist Federation; involved in the anti-Nazi boycott movement; member, British Section of the World Zionist Congress; founder of the Jewish National Fund's Stamp Department; member of the Board of Deputies.
Edith Baker, born 1885; Zionist; helped to form the Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess, 1922.
Percy and Edith Baker were killed in an air raid together with their son, 1940.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsAvailable subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Registration Form. This item is also available online through our Digital Collections website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/collections/ucl-digital-collections/browse-collections/jewish-collections
Related MaterialUniversity College London Special Collections holds other ephemera of Percy and Edith Baker (available on the UCL Digital Collections website) and correspondence between him and Moses Gaster (Ref: GASTER/9).
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