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Four California certified public accountants : oral history transcript / and related material, 1958-1968.
BANC MSS 68/134 c
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Title:

Four California certified public accountants : oral history transcript: and related material, 1958-1968

Creator/Contributor:

Cooper, Harry J., interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Forbes, John Franklin, 1876-1965, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Hammond, James Edward, 1895-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Herrick, Anson, 1883-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Farquhar, Francis P. (Francis Peloubet), 1887-1974, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Interviews with Harry J. Cooper (23 l.), John F. Forbes (15 l.), James E. Hammond (23 l.), and Anson Herrick (22 l.). Recollections of early days of public accounting in California, their own careers, and the formation of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Herrick's interview also comments on the San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds following the 1906 disaster and the accounting procedures used in the San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. Included also is an issue of the California CPA Quarterly (Sept. 1959) containing excerpts from the interviews.

Date:

1958 (issued)

Subject:

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Accountants -- California
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco
Fires -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Personal narratives

Note:

tape recorded interview conducted 1958-1959 by Francis P. Farquhar for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1968 :
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:

1 portfolio. + related material.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 68/134 c

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.