Manuscripts

Oral history of Edith and Lessing Rosenwald: transcript

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Description: Copy of transcript of an oral history conducted by Janet Rosenwald Becker, who interviewed her parents, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald and Lessing Rosenwald. The oral history, originally dated 1978, November 11, recounts the histories of both the Rosenwald and the Goodkind families from the 19th century to the 1970s. The typescript also includes a photocopy of a four-page handwritten letter dated March 1910 from Lessing Rosenwald's mother, Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald, to her children, and a two-page typewritten transcription.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1983, June 3.
Call number: mssHM 83093
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 28 cm

Aerospace oral history project

Manuscripts

The aerospace oral history project consists of 61 oral histories in PDF format and provides a range of perspectives related to the aerospace industry in Southern California. Interview subjects were selected to provide a range of perspectives on the aerospace industry, from senior corporate leaders to design engineers, manufacturing engineers, major airframe manufacturers, think tanks, smaller suppliers, and both military and civilian programs. Most of the interviews cover the period from World War II and the Cold War up to the present, although several interviews include memories of the 1920s and 1930s. The transcripts reflect guided oral histories conducted by professional historians; interviews have been transcribed for clarity, and reviewed for accuracy by the interviewee before being entered into the catalog. Some interviewees were interviewed multiple times. The oral history transcripts are available on thein PDF format only. The collection is ongoing and new oral histories will be added to the collection as they are completed. Because some of original audio files included off-the-record discussions, the original audio files are not accessible to researchers.

mssHM 80611

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Transcriptions (copies)

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The oral history tapes and transcriptions, together with the correspondence, that make up this collection were created by Peter A. Brazeau during the course of his research for his oral history biography of Wallace Stevens: Parts of a world: Wallace Stevens remembered (1983). Brazeau, a member of the English Department faculty of St. Joseph College, wrote to and interviewed dozens of Stevens' relatives, friends, neighbors, employees, business colleagues, and literary associates and acquaintances in order to elicit their recollections about the poet.

mssHM 53675-54279

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mssHM 53675-54279

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A History of the Ranchos Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos: manuscript

Manuscripts

Bill Wilden presented this paper to Dr. Becker April 18, 1968. It is a 22-page typed manuscript (plus 6 photograph pages). It is a history of Ranchos Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos. The manuscript contains handwritten corrections. The photographs are of people, farmers, cows, turkeys, horses, farm equipment, land, and buildings; the photographs are dated 1907 to 1921.

mssHM 82431

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Manuscripts

Oral history interviews of writer Harriet Doerr conducted by historian Steven J. Novak in 1999 on April 13, April 27, May 4, June 8, and June 29. Doerr discusses the Huntington family and growing up and later living in Pasadena; marriage and children; experiences during World War II; U.S. politics; life and travels in Mexico from the 1930s to the 1970s and the family's copper mine; educational experiences; writing and literary career; relationship with the Huntington Library; and her thoughts on aging.

mssHM 84039

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Edwards Metcalf oral history

Manuscripts

A collection of eight audio cassettes, numbered I-VIII, recorded from March 1 to April 19 in 1998. An oral history collection which includes recollections of Henry E. Huntington, his library, collecting Burton and Lawrence material, and growing up in California. The cassettes were digitized as part of the California Revealed project.

mssHM 84116

Oral history of Edith and Lessing Rosenwald: transcript

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