| Title: |
Reminiscences of Cass Canfield
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A40
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Early youth, education, New York and abroad; Harvard; graduate study at Oxford, 1920; walked Burma Road, 1920; Harper & Bros. president from 1932; crossing on HINDENBURG, 1936; interview with Leon Trotsky, 1940; Board of Economic Welfare; Office of War Information, 1944; International Planned Parenthood Federation; history of Harper's and comprehensive discussion of publishing; anecdotes about many notable literary and political figures including Edith Wharton, Julian and Aldous Huxley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Sumner Welles, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 425 leaves, Tape: 2 reels, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part III, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1966 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Canfield, Cass, 1897-1986
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1897
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| Age at speaking: |
69
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| Document date: |
1966
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| Interviewer: |
Grossner, Isabel S.
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| Organizations discussed: |
International Planned Parenthood Federation, London, England
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
American literature--20th century; Authors; Book industries and trade; International Planned Parenthood Federation, London, England; North America; Oral history; Publishers and publishing; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Canfield, Cass, 1897-1986; Harper & Row, Publishers; Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940; United States--Office of War Information
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018162-13605
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