Businesses -- Manufacturing

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Contains newspaper articles about Gerber Scientific Incorporated (Gerber Scientific Instrument Company) and Prototype and Plastic Mold Company, including a 1962 Hartford Times article, "New Gerber Plotter Space Age Advance," and a 1997 Hartford Courant Business Weekly entitled "Gerber After Gerber".

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Contains newspaper articles regarding Connecticut manufacturers, including several articles with the common theme of children succeeding their parents in the family business.

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One newspaper obituary - quite detailed

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The book outlines the present (as of 1982) condition of Coleco, as well as documenting the past of the company, it's journey to it's 1982 incarnation, as well as looking towards the future.

The photocopy is unclear as to what it is. May indicate that there is an original document in the Workman's Group, Hartford file.

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Folder contains publicity material and correspondence for the oral history panel featuring Arnold and Leonard Greenberg.

Oral history transcript not in file. Hardcopy located in people files, digital files attached to database records.

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Interviewed for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Discussed experiences such as the Holocaust, escaping to the U.S., technological advancements, his company Geber Scientific

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Major engineering company in Connecticut. They produce computers and machinery which have been used in various capacities including car production and automated manufacturing.

Interview Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania) Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock. Life on the farm. Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...

Interview Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania) Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock. Life on the farm. Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...