Happy Passover!
The photograph above is likely the best known image in the Rauh Jewish Archives. It shows Jacob Radbord supervising the baking of matzos at the Caplan Baking Company on Logan Street in the Hill District in 1934.

At its peak in the late 1920s, the Caplan Baking Company was an important manufacturer of matzos. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, the company distributed about one million pounds of matzo each year (although that number appears to be high, given the area Jewish population).

The Rauh Jewish Archives wishes everyone a Happy Passover! We will be closed on Sunday, March 28 and Monday, March 29 in honor of the holiday.



[IMAGE: Black and white photograph of a tall, bearded man with gloves, inspecting several stacks of matzos. A pair of men behind him are removing matzos from an oven. Caplan Baking Company Photograph, OFP 1.]
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[IMAGE: Marian Schreiber and employees at the Schreiber Trucking Company, c.1943—Schreiber Family Papers and Photographs, MSS 846.]
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