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A publisher's career with the University of California Press, the Sierra Club, and the California Native Plant Society : oral
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A publisher's career with the University of California Press, the Sierra Club, and the California Native Plant Society : oral history transcript / 2001University history series
Creator/Contributor:
Frugé, August, 1909-2004, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Frugé, Susan, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Background in Idaho and Oregon, education at Stanford University; early jobs, UC Berkeley librarianship degree, 1937; marriage,
library work in Sacramento; University of California Press: 1940s, under Sam Farquhar, early mandate; under Frugé, Editorial
Committee meetings, sponsoring editors, new directions, paperback publication; UCLA office of the Press; finances, inventory,
Board of Control, marketing; comments on George Stewart, Max Yavno, Ansel Adams, Franklin Murphy, others; American Association
of University Presses and university publishing in Latin America, 1950s, Centro Interamericano de Libros Académicos; Sierra
Club: Publications Committee, 1960s, and connections with UC Press, David Brower, creating Exhibit Format Books, internal
conflicts. Includes a joint interview with Susan Frugé (1926-2001) on the California Native Plant Society, CNPS activists
and field trips, plant sales, Fremontia, August's role in CNPS, Jim Roof, Ledyard Stebbins and others. Appendices include
extensive correspondence, and writings by Frugé.
Includes compact disc recording of Susan Frugé memorial service, March 4, 2001.
Includes documents relating to August Frugé publishing career and the Sierra Club.
Includes correspondence between Frugé and Suzanne Riess, clippings and miscellany, and a few photographs of Frugé and his
wife.
Date:
2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPublishers and publishing -- California
Scholarly publishing -- California -- Berkeley -- History
Édition savante -- Californie -- Berkeley -- Histoire
Publishers and publishing
Scholarly publishing
California
California -- Berkeley
University of California Press.
Sierra Club. -- Publications Committee.
Sierra Club -- Publishing
California Native Plant Society.
Association of American University Presses.
Association of American University Presses.
California Native Plant Society.
Sierra Club.
University of California Press.
Brower, David -- 1912-2000
Brower, David -- 1912-2000
Note:
August Frugé ; with an introduction by Harlan Kessel. Interviewed by Suzanne B. Riess, 1997-1998. Regional Oral History Office,
the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Includes an interview with Susan Frugé.
Forms part of the University history series.
Portions of correspondence (supplemental vol. 2): RESTRICTED until 2025.
Portions of correspondence (supplemental vol. 2): RESTRICTED until 2025.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3173 C:1-14.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyHistory.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (x, 332 pages) : color portraits ; 29 cm
15 audiocassettes
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2 volumes ; 31 cm
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Portions of correspondence (supplemental vol. 2): RESTRICTED until 2025.
Portions of correspondence (supplemental vol. 2): RESTRICTED until 2025.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.