Gender Male
Formal portrait of Jesse Shwayder standing with his hands in his pockets. In the early 1900s, Jesse Shwayder opened a small luggage factor in Denver with his father, Isaac, and brothers Mark, Maurice, Benjamin, and Solomon. Together they turned it into one of the largest luggage producers in America, the Samsonite Corporation.
Handwritten on
envelope: "#30 Jesse Shwayder, Founder of Samsonite Co., c. 1929." Handwritten on back of photograph: "#30, Portrait of Jesse Shwayder, founder of Samsonite Corporation circa 1929, donated by Mr. Gordon Rosenblum."
