Sprinza Weizenblatt Collection
P2009.12.01 (Virtual)
"Sprinza Weizenblatt" [weiz_006] Sprinza Weizenblatt Collection,
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804
| Title | Sprinza Weizenblatt Collection |
| Creator | Hertha Horowitz (niece) |
| Alt. Creator | Sprinza Weizenblatt |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/weizenblatt_sprinza/default_weizenblatt.html |
| Subject Keyword | Sprinza Weizenblatt ; Weizenblatt Health Center ; university supporters ; Hertha Horowitz ; physicians ; ophthalmology ; women physicians ; health ; Jewish heritage in Western North Carolina |
| Subject LCSH | Weiznblatt, Sprinza Physicians -- North Carolina Physicians, Women -- History -- North Carolina Ophthalmologists -- United States -- Biography Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- Sources Jews -- Southern States -- History |
| Description | A virtual collection of assorted photographs (18) donated by Hertha Horowitz that visually recall the Asheville
ophthalmologist who generously donated the Weizenblatt Health Center at
University of North Carolina Asheville and a small memorial garden (now no
longer extant) that once graced the entry area of the Botanical Gardens at
UNC Asheville. The plaque for the Weizenblatt Health Center reads:
"Sprinza Weizenblatt, M.D., Ophthalmologist, friend of humanity, and
generous benefactor who has made Asheville and this university a finer
place in which to live. April 27, 1987." The collection also includes a series of postcards that have also been donated by Hertha Horowitz. |
| Publisher | D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor | n/a |
| Date original | 2009-02-27 |
| Date digital | 2009-03-18 |
| Type | Collection ; Image |
| Format | Variously sized prints |
| Source | P2008.09.1 |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Women in Western North Carolina, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Mary Parker Oral History in Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Dr. Mary Frances (Polly) Shuford Oral History in Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Pat Dodd Oral History, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Francis Hulme (1909-198?) in the Southern Appalachian Writers Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Carolina Mountain Club Archive, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; |
| Coverage Temporal | 1920's-1975 |
| Coverage Spatial | Asheville, NC |
| Rights | Any display, publication or public use must credit D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | Donor number: 338 |
| Acquisition | 2009-02-27 : Second acquisition from Sharon Fahrer 2012-01-10 included small group of photographs and printed materials |
| Citation | Sprinza Weizenblatt Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2009 ; 2012, HP |
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| online only | weiz_p030 | Dedication of the Weizenblatt Health Center. |
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| weiz_033-weiz_059 | Postcards: Some chronicle correspondence while others feature only the image. |
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| P2009.12.01 | weiz_001 | Passport photograph, showing Sprinza Weizenblatt as a young girl. Sprinza Weizenblatt (1895-1987) was born in what is now Rumania in the province of Bukovina in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. She and her family fled to Vienna, Austria before World War I in order to escape persecution. Sprinza raised prize-winning orchids, which she said reminded her of a bird's eye. She knew the Latin names of many flowers and had a love of nature, which she accredited to her father. |
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| weiz_002 | Sprinza Weizenblatt as a young girl. |
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| weiz_003 | Sprinza Weizenblatt, portrait. |
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| weiz_004 | Sprinza Weizenblatt. |
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| weiz_005 | Informal lunch to welcome Pat Dodd, one of the
area's first women surgeons. Sprinza Weizenblatt gave her an orchid corsage
as a welcoming gift. This picture was taken in Asheville in the late 1950s
in front of the Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC. According to an interview with Dr. Dodd, these types of informal luncheons would happen among the women doctors occasionally as a social gathering. Seated, L to R: Charmen Carroll (psychiatrist), Irma Henderson, Louise Galloway. Standing: Margery Lord (second from left), Polly Shuford (third from left), Pat Dodd (fourth from left), Sprinza Weizenblatt (fifth from left). [?] |
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| weiz_006 | Social lunch meeting at another physician's house in the 1970s. L to R: Edith Hutto, Sprinza Weizenblatt, unknown, and Pat Dodd. |
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| weiz_007 | Emory University Ophthalmologic Seminar, April 4-5-6, 1946. Sprinza Weizenblatt was the only woman pictured at this Seminar. (Top row, to right of center.) |
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Sprinza Weizenblatt, seated and standing. |
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| weiz_009 | Sprinza Weizenblatt. |
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| weiz_010 | The Weizenblatt Health Center. Funding to build the Center, located at the University of North Carolina Asheville, came from Sprinza's generosity. |
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| weiz_011 | Building sign placed in front of the new Weizenblatt Health Center. |
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| weiz_012 | Dedication plaque for the Weizenblatt Health Center at UNC Asheville. |
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| weiz_013 | The Sprinza Weizenblatt memorial garden. [Garden was removed when Weaver Blvd. was extended and a parking lot installed in front of the Botanical Gardens at UNCA.] |
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| weiz_014 | The poet, violinist and drama critic, Francis Pledger Hulme, who grew up in Buncombe County, in conversation with Sprinza Weizenblatt. [Location unknown.] |
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| weiz_015 | Carolina Hiking Club. On back of the photo: "In memory of the Grandfather Mt. trip and a wonderful time. (August 3, 1946) Gladys Rowland." |
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| weiz_016 | Friends and group at Grandfather Mountain with the Carolina Hiking Club [Carolina
Mountain Club]. Sprinza on lower left. As intense about her hobbies as she was about her patients, Sprinza was an outdoor enthusiast who enjoyed backpacking in the Smoky Mountains and was an active member of the Carolina Mountain Hiking Club, the oldest hiking and trail maintaining club in Western North Carolina. (Sprinza is in the checked shirt in the front row on the left) |
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| weiz_017 | Friends and family group at Grandfather Mountain with the Carolina Hiking Club [Carolina Mountain Club]. Sprinza on top row with white scarf. |
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| weiz_019 | Trip to Mexico with Clementine 'Clemmie' Douglas Weaver. Sprinza Weizenblatt on the left. Sprinza loved to travel and went all over the world, including Nepal, Russia, China where she observed acupuncture, Morocco, Kyoto, Japan and to Southern Africa with a group of physicians to care for people suffering from eye diseases. Pictured above on the left she is on a trip to Mexico with Clementine Douglas, a weaver and owner of the Spinning Wheel Craft Shop. |
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| weiz_020 | Young Sprinza Weizenblatt. |
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| weiz_021 | Sprinza Weizenblatt on the left. [On the back of photo: "Semi hazy"] |
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| weiz_022 | Sprinza Weizenblatt (on left) on a camping trip. |
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| weiz_023 | Group of doctors and nurses. Sprinza Weizenblatt on the top row, fourth from the left. Vienna Eye Clinic (1927). In a tumultuous political time in Austria this poor Jewish woman overcame the odds against her success and was able to study through merit scholarships and a focused determination. Ranked first in her class, she was glad to wear her white medical coat to hide her worn clothing underneath. Sprinza is in the center of the photo in the second row 7th from the left. |
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| weiz_024 | Sprinza Weizenblatt, 78 years old. |
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| weiz_025 | Carolina Hiking Club. Sprinza Weizenblatt on right. |
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| weiz_026 | Carolina Hiking club; Sprinza Weizenblatt at right. |
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| weiz_027 | Sprinza Weizenblatt at Addoton Camp in Maine 1951, Deer Island.
[On back of photo: "Did it get away?"] Sprinza, just 4 feet 11 inches, was true to her name, Esperanza, which is from Latin, meaning "to hope". She was direct, Germanic and professional with her patients, with a decidedly impish side. She was determined to learn something new every day. Dr. Anne Sagberg, an Asheville psychiatrist, remembered the first time she saw Sprinza, in 1956 at the age of 60; she was walking around the Chuck Wagon (Good Grub Restaurant and Appalachian Motel in Blowing Rock, NC) swimming pool on her hands. Sprinza took up surfing at the age of 70, and backpacked through Alaska carrying a 50-pound knapsack and pitching her own tent while in her 80s. She sent her great niece a postcard saying that Alaska was wonderful, but she was having a little difficulty with the tent! |
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| weiz_028 | Sprinza Weizenblatt on a hike. |
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| weiz_29 | Sprinza Weizenblatt, 80 years old. |
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| weiz_31 | Sprinza Weizenblatt, 1985 [Print is in Weizenblatt vertical file] |
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| weiz_32 | Sprinza Weizenblatt on her 90th birthday [Print is in Weizenblatt vertical file] |
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