Garden Street, Hartford, CT

People File This file contains the oral history interview release form from the 2003 interview, signed about a month after it took place. There is also a partial transcript from the 1997 interview (see corresponding Scope & Contents for more information) as well as a photocopied newspaper article about Kaufman's participation in an oratory competition sponsored by the Aleph Zadik Aleph organization. There are also two photocopied photographs of Leo Kaufman in various clubs at Weaver High as listed...

Scope and Contents

Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Springfield, parent's immigration, family, employment in Hartford area, service in World War II and veterans organizations, advertising agency.

Interview Subjects include: The workings of the Crystal Barbershop in the 1920s; the way barbershops changed their names to "hair salons" and the like; Esquire magazine; Collier's magazine; the Saturday Evening Post; Jack Mullins; Keeping children in the barbershop busy; racy calendars; the details of hair-cutting instruments; sterilization of instruments; Samuel Katz and his meat market near the barbershop; the price of haircuts; Kosoff as the first jewish Barber Commissioner; Closure of the...

Scope and Contents Folder 1 includes: 3 copies of transcript; scanned information checklist; transcript abstract; draft of transcript abstract.Folder 2 Includes: News clippings; obituaries of Aaron Kriwizky and Ida Berkowitz Kriwitzky; Black and white photocopy of Die Zeit (March 1944 issue); Handwritten letter from the Kriwitzky family expressing gratitude for kinds words at memorial service Subjects Subjects include: Kriwitzky's early life in...

Scope and Contents

Folder contains: Scanned information schecklist; abstract of transcript; Oral history transcript; second copy of transcript on translucent paper.