Oral history interviews with Stanford people 1993

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Oral history interviews with Stanford people 1993

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Audio cassettes, with brief typed summaries, of interviews with Vartan Gregorian, E. Fay Jones, Emily Hanna Johnson, and John Paul Hanna, 1993. Gregorian discusses his childhood and Armenian roots, student days at Stanford, his teaching career, and his administrative career at Brown University. Jones primarily discusses his career as an architect, including his work with Frank Lloyd Wright. The interviews with Emily Hanna Johnson and John Paul Hanna concern the Hanna family and the family home on the Stanford campus that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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