When Jerome B. “J.B.” Daiches — a handsome Navy veteran, home builder, amateur actor, and eligible bachelor — died in Dallas in 2010 at age 88, he had no heirs. His family photos went to the Fort Worth Jewish Archives. This rich collection includes classic small town images from Arkansas and Fort Worth as well as fashionably dressed folks from the 1940s. J.B.’s father, a jeweler, hired premier photographer W.D. Smith to take pictures of his downtown Fort Worth store. The Daiches (pron. dye-ches) family traveled to the Catskills and throughout the Caribbean, adding a dimension beyond the Metroplex to their photo collection.
Louis Daiches & Bluma Weber, 1919
Bluma Weber Daiches, on her wedding day, June 20, 1920
Louis, Bluma, and JB Daiches, 1922
Bluma Daiches, young, undated
Louis Daiches 1920sExtended Daiches Family, Undated
Young JB Daiches, 1924
Young JB Daiches, undated
Young JB Daiches, undated
Louis & JB Daiches, Ca. 1926Louis Daiches walking down town Fort Worth, 1930s.Left to right J.B. Daiches, Louis Daiches, Cousin Marion Freed Perl. Undated
Louis & JB Daiches Ca. 1926Louis Daiches outside jewlery store, 1930Young JB Daiches on a horse, undatedLouis Daiches, and second wife Edna. at Jewelry store on 614 Houston Street. January 17, 1949.
1936, May. Confirmation. J.B. Daiches, third from the right. Rabbi Merfeld in the center. Manny Rosenthal to the left of Rabbi MerfeldJB Daiches, undated
Young J.B. Daiches with Sarah Fred Weber, his grandmother who raised him. 1943Louis Daiches, undated
Unidentified Couple, June 26, 1946.JB Daiches, undated
Unidentified Salors, JB Daiches bottom row, second from the right, undatedMarion Freed Perl, Hannah Weber Sandler, J.B. Daiches, at 2901 Park Hill. UndatedLouis Daiches, Edna Daiches, and J.B Daiches, undated
Louis & Edna Daiches, traveling, 1949
Manny and Sayde with the Daiches Clan. Feburary 26, 1940.
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