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Jennie Harris papers, 1902-1972.
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Jennie Harris papers, 1902-1972Creator/Contributor:
Harris, Jennie, 1893-1973, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 122.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1983.013.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeCreator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
Collection consists primarily of a typed manuscript of Harris' detailed and evocative autobiography, in which she describes
her early life and her experience as a businesswoman in the 1920s and 1930s. The collection also includes newspaper and magazine
clippings about Harris' business (many of which focus on the "woman as business owner" angle of her story) and some of Harris'
songs and other miscellaneous papers.
Date:
1902 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caHarris, Jennie -- 1893-1973 -- Archives
Authors and Composers Club (Oakland, Calif.)
No-D-Lay Transfer, Express, and Storage Company (Oakland, Calif.)
Jews, Lithuanian -- California -- Oakland
Jewish women -- California -- Oakland
Autobiography -- Women authors
Storage and moving trade -- California -- Oakland
Used furniture industry -- California -- Oakland
Jewish businesspeople
Women lyricists
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 122.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1983.013.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Jennie Harris papers, BANC MSS 2010/643, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
Born in Vilna, Lithuania; immigrated to the U.S. and lived briefly in San Francisco, before settling in Oakland (1903). She
went to work at an early age to help support her family. She established the No-D-Lay Transfer, Express, and Storage Company
(1915), a long distance hauling and storage business, in Oakland, Calif. In the late 1920s, she opened a used furniture store.
She also wrote songs and was a secretary of the Authors and Composers Club (1935).
Materials in English.
Type:
Autobiographies-California-Oakland.Songs-California-Oakland.
Physical Description:
print
1 box (.2 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585557
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.