Businesses & Professions -- Salesman

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Partial oral history transcript.

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This article, written after the death of Nathaniel Kagan, reflects on his life, particularly his tinkering and position as a sales reprsentative for Genie garage door openers.

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Biographical sketch on three Jewish War Veterans from Hartford (Samuel Kalechman, Mitchell Lassoff, Tommy Socket) as compiled by Robert H. Kalechman on December 6, 2003. Focus is on the various wartime accomplishments of the three men, as well as what they did upon returning home.

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: One supply catalog, "suppliers to the Sheet Metal Trade and Heating/cooling/ventilation contractors", with business card attached; One photocopy of newspaper clipping relating to antiques sellers; ne photocopy of a yearbook page containing entry for Morris Landerman, 1925; Two copies of black-and-white photocopy of photo, "Front Street Hartford May 21 1937, Max Landrman b 1893 d 1963, Jim Rudolph d 1965, John Cardillo born feb 15 1908, Mr Shad, Manuel Libin died Oct...

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Materials in folder include: News clippings related to Lappen business; photocopies of Harry Lappen's obituary; Correspondence from Phyllis Lappen attached to black and white film photographs of Lappen business and related artcles. to photocopy of scrapbook page, and 8x11 photograph of Lappen family admring new fireplace equipment donated to old state house.

Transcript subjects Subjects of transcript include: Jewish family life in Hartford in the early 1900s; crowded conditions of living; street markets; children selling newspapers; immigration; work in a department store; Windsor Street as an integrated neighborhood, the "Pot of Gold"; Fish selling and living above a fish market; Rose's father's struggle to make ends meet as a mender and tinker; various building fires close to Rose's home; children playing in the snow; hasty marriage; a wedding; generosity of a...