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Interviews with Leo Eloesser : San Francisco : typescript, 1966.
BANC MSS 83/135 c; Phonotape 1497 A
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Title:

Interviews with Leo Eloesser: San Francisco : typescript, 1966

Creator/Contributor:

Eloesser, Leo., creator, Interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Newhall, Ruth., Interviewer.

Abstract:

Comments on his immigrant grandparents, and his parents; childhood and education in San Francisco; musical studies; trip to Mexico in 1899; medical education in Heidelberg; travel in eastern Europe; practicing medicine in California; medical work in the German Army and later with the U.S. Army during WWI; medical work in Russia in the early '30s, in Spain during the Civil War, in Nationalist and Communist China in the mid '40s in South America and elsewhere; the medical profession and his research in orthopaedic and thoracic surgery; his medical publications; retirement and farming in Mexico.
With this: a second copy of the transcript and related clippings.

Date:

1966 (issued)

Subject:

Medicine -- Study and teaching -- California
Physicians -- California -- Biography
World War, 1914-1918
Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
China -- Description and travel
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography

Note:

Transcript of tape-recorded interviews conducted by Ruth Newhall.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC

Type:

Oral histories.

Physical Description:

109 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.
3 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 83/135 c
Phonotape 1497 A

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

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