Lease Agreement: Tilly Israel to Rosenbaum & Speyer, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 14, 1898

Business lease agreement dated May 14, 1898, between Tilly Israel of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Joseph and Sigismund Speyer, also of Kalamazoo (the firm of Rosenbaum & Speyer, dry goods merchants). The lease concerns a business building located at 127 and 129 West Main Street, Kalamazoo, the site of M. Israel Dry Goods Store. The lease was for a period of five years. The document includes the original signatures of Simon Rosenbaum, Joseph Speyer, Sigismund Speyer, and Tilly Israel. Tilly Israel was the first female Jewish settler in Kalamazoo and the mother of Edward Israel, who died in the Arctic Exposition.

Associated People/Businesses

• Rosenbaum, Simon / Speyer, Joseph / Speyer, Sigismund / ISRAEL, TILLY

Geography

No geographic information available.

Subjects

• Landlord and tenant
• Jews--United States
• Dry Goods

Physical Location

Ms. Coll. 1410, M, Box 6, Folder 64