Oral history interview with Lois Murkland, 1966
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- Name
- Murkland, Lois (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Lois Murkland, 1966
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Lois Murkland : oral history, 1966
- Abstract
- Coming to work at Carnegie Corporation, 1934; day-to-day office life and administrative duties at Carnegie; grantmaking procedures; preparing documentary materials for Congressional investigation committee; 1935-1943; working for Social Science Research Council; Public Library Inquiry; 1944-1945. Impressions of Robert M. Lester, Frederick P. Keppel, Florence Anderson, Durand F. Miller.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Secretaries; Endowments--Officials and employees; Endowments--Auditing; Murkland, Lois; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Social Science Research Council (U.S.); Public Library Inquiry (Project)
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 35 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Secretary to Robert M. Lester, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on December 4, 1966.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7139174
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-67xg-1k90
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.