Oral history interview with Whitney North Seymour 1977
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- Name
- Seymour, Whitney North, 1901-1984 (Interviewee)
- Edwin, Ed (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Whitney North Seymour 1977
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Whitney North Seymour : oral history, 1977
- Abstract
- Family background; education, University of Wisconsin and Columbia Law School, 1920-1923; Angelo Herndon and other cases handled as attorney, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, 1924- ; work with Landmarks Conservancy in New York City, other environmental and cultural organizations; American Bar Association activities, 1937- ; discussion of professional standards, case presentation and tactics, selectio n process of judges, legal clinics and continuing legal education
- Collection Name
- New York bar project
- Subjects
- Lawyers; Law--United States; Law partnership; Bar associations; Conservation of natural resources; Practice of law; United States Intellectual life; Seymour, Whitney North, 1901-1984
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1977
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Ed Edwin on March 22, 1977
- Note (Provenance)
- Whitney North Seymour, Gift 1978
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7144731
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-vcyn-ws58
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.