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Family, business, and the San Francisco community : oral history transcript / and related material, 1973-1975.
BANC FILM 2418; BANC MSS 77/96 c; Phonotape 922 A
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Title:

Family, business, and the San Francisco community : oral history transcript: and related material, 1973-1975
California Jewish community oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Fleishhacker, Mortimer, 1907-, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Teiser, Ruth, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Harroun, Catherine, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Jones, Allan B.

Creator/Contributor:

Fleishhacker, Janet Louise Choynski, 1908-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Interviews with his wife, Janet Choynski Fleishhacker, also included. Photographs inserted. His comments on growing up is San Francisco; the Woodside house designed by Greene and Greene; the Fleishhacker family and other members of Jewish community in San Francisco; family business interests; his banking career; involvement with various community organizations and service on boards and commissions, including San Francisco Planning Commission and San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association; public television and KQED; service on corporation boards; prominent men in San Francisco, etc. Mrs. Fleishhacker comments on her childhood in San Francisco; her husband and her family; her volunteer activities, etc.

Date:

1973 (issued)

Contents:

Phonotapes: Reel 1: June 21, 1973. Track 1: 891 ft., track 2: 740 ft. -- Reel 2: June 27, 1973. Track 1: 943 ft., track 2: 967 ft. -- Reel 3: July 13, 1973. Track 1: 892 ft., track 2: 708 ft. -- Reel 4: July 16, 1973. Track 1: 954 ft., track 2: 156 ft. -- Reel 5: July 19 and 23, 1973. Track 1: 874 ft., track 2: 997 ft. -- Reel 6: Aug. 1, 1973. Track 1: 987 ft., track 2: 680 ft. -- Reel 7: Aug. 1, 1973. Track 1: 945 ft., track 2: 927 ft. -- Reel 8: Aug. 6, 1973. Track 1: 973 ft., track 2: 989 ft. -- Reel 9: Aug. 6, 1973. Track 1: 196 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 10: May 9, 1974. Track 1: 946 ft., track 2: 258 ft. -- Reel 11: May 16, 1964. Track 1: 755 ft., track 2: 928 ft. -- Reel 12: May 21, 1964. Track 1: 940 ft., track 2: 921 ft. -- Reel 13: May 31, 1974. Track 1: 934 ft., track 2: 960 ft. -- Reel 14: May 31, 1974. Track 1: 417 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 15: Apr. 25, 1975. Track 1: 372 ft., track 2: blank. Reels 1-10 are Mortimer Fleishhacker, reels 11-14 are Janet Choynski Fleishhacker, Reel 15 is Allan Jacobs.

Subject:

n-us-ca
Choynski family
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Greene & Greene.
Jews -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- Sources
Banks and banking -- California
City planning -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Societies and clubs -- History -- Sources
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs

Note:

Mortimer Fleishhacker; tape recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, 1973-1974. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1975 :
Introduction by Allan B. Jones.
With this, as v. 2 (portfolio); photocopies of documentary material supplementing the interview, including Choynski family letters.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available on microfilm with call number BANC FILM 2467.
Also available online.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
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:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
[11], xii, 411 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.
15 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.
1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2696) and positive.

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z202r
BANC FILM 2418
BANC MSS 77/96 c
Phonotape 922 A

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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.

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http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z202r