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Rettberg, Raoul

As printed

  1. Resident and business directory of Norwood and Walpole, Massachusetts (1911)

    Rettberg Raoul, violin maker, h 18 Chapel

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    1. Renshaw James, emp Bird's, h 1171 Washington
    2. Repszis V. P. provisions, 27 Dean
    3. Rettberg August, musician, h 16 Chapel
    4. Rettberg Raoul, violin maker, h 18 Chapel
    5. Revell Eunice G. nurse, bds 110 Day
    6. Revell Herbert C. tannery, rms 506 Washington
    7. Reynolds George F. salesman, h 48 Bond

  2. Boston register and business directory (1922)

    91 Rettberg Raoul violinmaker

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    1. 87 Reiser Gertrude hairdresser
    2. 89 International Brotherhood of Railroad Stationmen and Railroad Employees' Alliance of North America
    3. 90 New York Textile Mending Co
    4. 91 Rettberg Raoul violinmaker
    5. 2 1/2 Cook J W & Son Co furniture movers
    6. 3 Plakias Dairy Co Inc restaurant
    7. 1 Nagle Thomas F barber

Named in 2 books printed between 1911 and 1922. Read by software from scans of those pages, not yet checked by a person against the page. Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and we are not sure they mean the same person. That is on hold until somebody settles it.

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Details and sources

Record note

Boston register and business directory (1922); Boston register and business directory (1922) is what this record is built on, nothing more. No claim beyond that naming has been invented here, so not established is the honest state of the record — tell us if you can change it.

What the books say

Places and dates of work
91 Rettberg Raoul violinmaker reported1
Places and dates of work
91 Rettberg Raoul violinmaker reported1
Places and dates of work
Rettberg Raoul, violin maker, h 18 Chapel reported1

How the pages were read

3 of the 3 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. Trade terms matched from the printed page: “violinmaker”, “violin maker”.

Notes

  1. Read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words, or a typed transcription), not by a person looking at the page image. ↩

The books behind this record

This record draws on 2 sources. Each is listed below with how it was read, because a claim read from a photo of the page is stronger than one read from machine text.

  1. Boston register and business directory (Boston: Sampson & Murdock, 1922), vol. yr.1922. archive.org, bostonregisterbu1922bost. https://archive.org/details/bostonregisterbu1922bost.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

    scan page 423, line 157

  2. Boston register and business directory (Boston: Sampson & Murdock, 1922). archive.org, bostonregisterbu00bost. https://archive.org/details/bostonregisterbu00bost.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

    scan page 427, line 157

  3. Resident and business directory of Norwood and Walpole, Massachusetts (Union Pub. Co., 1911), vol. 1911. archive.org, residentbusines1911unse_0. https://archive.org/details/residentbusines1911unse_0.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

    scan page 116, line 9