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Listen: The Blues ProgramPortrait of Sam Wahnish in WWI uniform - Tallahassee, Florida.
Image Number
MS26451
Rights
Collection
MOSAIC collection
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Ethnicity, Middle Eastern
Ethnicity, Jewish
Military uniforms
Portraits--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Armed Forces
Jewish soldiers--Portraits
WWI
World War I
World War, 1914-1918--Jews
Jews--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee--Portraits
Jewish men--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee--Portraits
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish
Ethnicity, Jewish
Military uniforms
Portraits--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Armed Forces
Jewish soldiers--Portraits
WWI
World War I
World War, 1914-1918--Jews
Jews--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee--Portraits
Jewish men--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee--Portraits
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
1 photonegative - b&w - 5 x 4 in.
General Note
Accompanying note: "Sam Wahnish was the son of the tobacco planter, Alfred Wahnish and was later elected as the first Jewish mayor of Tallahassee. Alfred came to Tallahassee from Casablanca in the 1880s."
Portrait of Sam Wahnish in WWI uniform - Tallahassee, Florida.
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