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The appreciation of quality : oral history transcript / and related material, 1972-1979.
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Title:

The appreciation of quality : oral history transcript: and related material, 1972-1979

Creator/Contributor:

Haas, Elise S. (Elise Stern), creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Nathan, Harriet, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Friedman, Meyer, 1910-2001

Creator/Contributor:

Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Comments on her mother and father, Rosalie and Sigmund Stern and the Meyer, Stern and Haas families; growing up in San Francisco and in Atherton; marriage to Walter Haas; her community services; family's support of Stern Grove; her interest in art and art collections; friendships with Sarah Stein, Ernest Bloch, Albert Bender and others; meeting Matisse, Alice B. Toklas, Henry Moore, etc.; long association with the San Francisco Museum of Art, on women's board and as trustee.
Appended: additional documentary material supporting the interview.
With this: additional documentary material not appearing in the interview-- primarily clippings, and information on Sigmund Stern Grove.

Date:

1972 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Women -- California -- San Francisco
Jews -- California -- San Francisco
Artists -- California
Femmes -- Californie -- San Francisco
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco
Artistes -- Californie
Artists
Jews
Women
Stern Grove (San Francisco, Calif.)
California
California -- San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art.
San Francisco Museum of Art.
Stern family
Haas, Walter A -- 1889-1979
Stein, Sarah
Matisse, Henri -- 1869-1954
Bloch, Ernest -- 1880-1959
Toklas, Alice B
Moore, Henry -- 1898-1986
Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice) -- 1866-1941
Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice) -- 1866-1941
Bloch, Ernest -- 1880-1959
Haas, Walter A -- 1889-1979
Matisse, Henri -- 1869-1954
Moore, Henry -- 1898-1986
Stern family
Toklas, Alice B
United States -- California -- Berkeley

Note:

Elise S. Haas ; tape recorded interview conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1972. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1979 :
Introductions by Meyer Friedman and Henry T. Hopkins.
Copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted.
Also available online.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
ix, [14], 209 pages ; 28 cm + related material

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.