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Guide to the Kappel Family Digital Photographs Collection
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Descriptive Summary | ||
| Creator | Kappel family | |
| Title | Kappel Family Digital Photographs Collection , | |
| Dates: | 1938 - 1980 | |
| Abstract: | The Kappel Family resided in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, NY. | |
| Extent: | 61 Digital Images | |
| Identification: | K-8 | |
| Location: | Archives at Queens Library | |
Historical/Biographical Note
The Kappel Family Digital Photographs Collection ( photographs) consists of imagery related to the Kappel Family lineage within the Sunnyside Gardens area of Queens from 1938-1980. Irving Kappel married his wife Ruth (Klein) on Jul 15, 1933, and had two children: Stephen Kappel (5/2/37-11/13/13) and Lawrence (Larry) Kappel (5/5/45-5/21/03).
Irving Kappel was a well-known optician in the Sunnyside area of Queens, New York for many years. He owned the building at 47-02 Greenpoint Avenue, where the current “Mailbox Store” and the Bliss Street Restaurant are located. Many of the photographs that Irving took document the “typical Queens childhood” of Steve and Larry Kappel, full of sports, outdoor activities, and “boys being boys.”
Stephen Kappel went to the University of Maryland to study behavioral psychology and worked as a school guidance counselor for many years. By the early 1980s, he and his second wife Vivien moved to upstate New York where they lived until 2001. In 2001, Stephen moved back to the historic Celtic Gardens building located in Sunnyside, Queens where he resided until his death in 2013. The images taken by Stephen Kappel document the lives of his children Dana, Alison, Joanne, Stacey, and nephew Theodore.
On February 3, 1968, Stephen Kappel and Marilyn Gore were married and had two daughters, Alison and Dana Kappel shortly thereafter. By the mid-1970s, Marilyn and Stephen separated and Stephen married his second-wife, Vivien Pilson. Stephen and Vivien had a daughter, Joanne Kappel; from a previous marriage Vivien had a daughter, Stacey Pilson. The Kappel-Pilson sisters donated digital copies of their families photographs to the Queens Memory Project sometime after their father, Stephen had passed.
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Scope and Content Note
The Kappel Family Digital Photographs Collection highlights the genealogy of the Kappel Family who resided in the Sunnyside Gardens section of Queens, New York. This collection has been divided into three separate series in order to notate the images donated by Alison Kappel, Joanne Kappel, and Stacey Pilson. This collection includes:
Imagery of Sunnyside Gardens area of Queens from the late-1930s to the late-1960s
Imagery of Shea Stadium and team members of the NY Mets in 1980.
Imagery of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park from the mid-1970s to the early-1980s.
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Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject/author heading then chronologically within each subject/author heading.
The files are grouped into series:
| Series I. Alison Kappel | |
| Series II. Jo Anne Kappel | |
| Series III. Stacey Pilson |
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item,
date (if known); The Kappel Family Digital Photographs Collection ;K-8
- Archives at Queens Library
- Queens Borough Public Library Library
- 89-11 Merrick Boulevard
- Jamaica, NY 11432
Provenance
Most of these images were photographed by Irving Kappel, patriarch of the Kappel Family. His son Stephen photographed a large amount of images dating from 1960-1980. These digitized photographs were donated to the Queens Memory Project by Alison Kappel, Joanne Kappel, and Stacey Pilson, after the death of their father Stephen, at various Queens Memory Project community events in Sunnyside throughout 2014 and 2015.
Access Restrictions
Open for research without restrictions. Manuscripts are only available in the Archives at Queens Library, please call (718) 990-0770 for hours. Manuscript users will be required to complete the division's Manuscript Usage Form and deposit their photograph identification or Queens Borough Public Library card with a staff member. The identification will be returned to the user after she/he has returned the material. Manuscript users will deposit all their personal items behind the reference desk. Manuscript users must use the division's loose sheets of paper for note taking. To reiterate, no pen of any type is permitted. Paper and a pencil are available upon request. Manuscript users may be required to use special handling procedures depending on the conditions of the material.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:
- Archives at Queens Library
- Queens Borough Public Library
- 89-11 Merrick Boulevard
- Jamaica, NY 11432
- Phone: (718) 990-0770
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Access Points
Subject Names:
- Kappel, Alison
- Kappel, Irving
- Kappel, Jo Anne
- Kappel, Stephen
- Pilson, Stacey
Subject Family Names:
- Kappel Family
Subject Topics:
- Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.)
- Shea Stadium (New York, N.Y.)
Subject Places:
- Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Sunnyside Gardens (New York, N.Y.)
Document Types:
- Digital images
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Inventory
[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]
