Seymour and Anna Dolsky
Dolsky’s Stationary

Anna and Seymour Dolsky moved to Princeton with their two daughters, not long after emigrating from Poland. From 1931 to 1938, they operated a stationery store at 102 Nassau Street, with their extended family living in an apartment above the store. Characteristic of many Jewish families at the time, the family occupied the bridge between an old-world atmosphere at home, with Yiddish-speaking parents and grandparents, and the new-world spirit of the store, which catered predominantly to a university clientele. Students came in daily to purchase school supplies, cigarettes, candy, and magazines.