Jacob H. Schiff

Jacob Schiff supported the American war effort at the Liberty Loan Parade, 1917.

Starting in the 1890s and early 1900s, Schiff worked to clean up municipal government and unseat the Tammany machine. To…

“The poor man’s candidate.” After muckrakers helped turn bankers, railroad tycoons, and other businessmen into the target of widespread public…

A knitting class at the Henry Street Settlement on New York’s Lower East Side, May 1910. Jacob Schiff funded the…

This undated photograph shows President Theodore Roosevelt reading aloud as a group of dignitaries listens. Jacob Schiff can be seen…

Jacob Schiff’s daughter, Frieda, donated her house on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in New York City to the Jewish…

The Children of Jacob H. Schiff, marble bas relief of Mortimer and Frieda Schiff by the French-born artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens…

Approximately 5’3” tall and fit, with a closely trimmed beard and moustache, Jacob Schiff cut a dignified figure. He carried…

Jacob Schiff and his wife Therese (Loeb) Schiff around the time of their marriage in 1875.

Jacob Schiff and his extended family at their summer home in Bar Harbor, Maine. Schiff is seated at the center…

Nurses who were part of the Visiting Nurse Service leave the Henry Street Settlement, c. 1900s-1920s. Jacob Schiff was a…

This photograph shows Jacob Schiff and his wife Therese (née Loeb) walking behind an unidentified man. Schiff, a first-generation German-Jewish…

Photograph of the September 3, 1913, re-nomination ceremony for Mayor William J. Gaynor, a reform-minded Democrat. Bankers Jacob Schiff and…