Subject: Older people

A complimentary ticket issued by Lewis Gotthold to Rev. Isaac Leeser for a benefit performance to raise funds for an Asylum for the Aged and Infirmed. The ticket is inscribed to Rev. Isaac Leeser on the front and signed by Lewis Gotthold on the back. Date: November 17, 1864.

A 64-page pamphlet, published in 1943, titled "United Aged Home of Jerusalem by the American Committee." The pamphlet is in English and Hebrew and was produced by the American Committee for the United Aged Home of Jerusalem, located at 145 Nassau Street, NYC.

Postcard depicting the Brooklyn Hebrew Home & Hospital for the Aged, located at Howard and Dumont Avenues. The image shows a hospital building. The text on the postcard includes the statement: "Fifty cents will buy an aged couple a meal."

This 7-page book is a program from the dedication ceremony of the new Jewish Hospital and Home for the Aged and Infirm in Philadelphia, held on September 14, 1873. The program offers insight into the history of the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia, its founding in 1865, and its mission to provide medical care and support to the Jewish community, addressing the lack of access to care and employment discrimination faced by Jews in other hospitals.