Mt. Sinai Cemetery papers

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 4206

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

The collection contains material related to the managing of Mt. Sinai, including administrative records and correspondence between families of the interred and the synagogues relating to cost and grounds maintenance.

Dates

Creation: 1946 - 1999
Creation: Majority of material found within 1950 - 1970

Creator

Mt. Sinai Cemetery (Portland, Me.) (Organization)

Access

Unrestricted.

Copyright

Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.

Administrative note

Mt. Sinai is a Jewish cemetery located on Hicks Street (off Warren Avenue), in the Riverton neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It has been associated with Shaarey Tphiloh and Etz Chiam congregations, but is now independent and managed by the Southern Maine Jewish Cemetery Association. The SMJCA also oversees Smith Street Cemetery in South Portland.

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Provenance

Gift of the Southern Maine Jewish Cemetery Association, July 2021 (acc. no. 2021.085).

Related Materials

Processing note

Folders were unlabeled upon receipt, and original order had evidently been lost. Correspondence between families of the interred/inquiring parties and the cemetery staff were likely alphabetized by the surname of the author/addressee at one time. Due to frequent discrepancy between these names and those of the interred, this correspondence was re-sorted alphabetically by the surname of the interred.

Correspondence where the interred were unidentified remain sorted by the family member's name, and in some cases, the listed name had to be selected from multiple conflicting spellings.