Contains various photographs of members of the Sloss family, including portraits of Leon Sloss, Sr., Hattie Hecht Sloss, M.C. Sloss, Margaret Sloss, and Richard Sloss.

Adele Solomons was born in San Francisco on November 7, 1868, the daughter of Seixus and Hannah Marks Solomons. She received an M.D. in homeopathy from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific.

Lucius Levy Solomons was an attorney, orator, and writer, based in San Francisco; also an officer in B'nai B'rith and the Romanian Relief Society; he married Helen B. Frank in 1896.

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Sarah Spiegelman was a graduate of San Francisco's Mission High School.

Piroska Dormann and Erwin Simonovits (a.k.a. Stanton) and their daughter Eva emigrated from Austria in September 1938 and settled in Alameda County.

Rosalie Meyer Stern was a civic and social leader of San Francisco.

Samuel Stern emigrated from Germany to the United States, eventually settling in California.

William Stern served as a rabbi of Oakland's Temple Sinai from 1934 to 1965.

Gertrude Block (originally Bloch) was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1893 to Salomon Bloch and Bertha Buhler.