The vertical timeline below highlights key events in Jacobs' personal and professional life, 1920-2006. Many of these events are linked to images and documents from the Louis Jacobs Archive. Each of these archival material reproductions placed alongside the timeline can be enlarged by clicking the thumbnails. This timeline is an insight rather than a comprehensive list based upon the archival evidence kept at the Leopold Muller Memorial Library.


All reproductions presented below belong to the Louis Jacobs Archive, unless otherwise specified in the caption set underneath each image.

All reproductions presented below belong to the Louis Jacobs Archive.

In some cases copyright belongs to third parties, where copyright clearance was obtained, it is indicated in the caption. We have made considerable efforts to contact all relevant copyright holders. In some cases this was not possible and we would appreciate any information about the copyright holders in these cases.

[*] A single asterisk indicates that fair effort was made on part of the curatorial team to obtain copyright permissions, but no response was received from the copyright holders

[**] Two asterisks indicate items of unidentified source or authorship. In such cases, it is our aim to identify the objects' sources, therefore help of the online community is much appreciated.

If you are an author of an object displayed below with either a single or double asterisk, and would like us to acknowledge your authorship or remove the image altogether, please contact the Leopold Muller Memorial Library staff at: muller.library@ochjs.ac.uk