Oral history interview with John H. Dennis 1975
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- Name
- Dennis, John H (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with John H. Dennis 1975
- Abstract
- Early employment; payroll clerk at lumber mill; paper tester, stock room clerk; history of Hodge-Hunt Lumber Company; company store; 1926 formation of Southern Advance Bag and Paper Company; anecdotes concerning various persons and training at Hodge Plant in Louisiana; payroll handling and employee salaries; unionization; Hodge production and machinery; bleached paper mill; Southern Advance merger with Robert Gair, 1955; tornado incident; modernization of Hodge by Continental; Continentalization.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Supervisors, Industrial; Paper containers; Factory management; Lumber trade; Consolidation and merger of corporations; Papermaking; Dennis, John H; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Assistant to plant manager.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on April 28, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- John H. Dennis, Gift 1975
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13537027
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-7fbh-1136
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.