Self-portrait of a bookwoman : oral history transcript / Ellen Shaffer ; with an introduction by William J. Monihan ; interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1991. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

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Self-portrait of a bookwoman : oral history transcript / Ellen Shaffer ; with an introduction by William J. Monihan ; interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1991. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

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Shaffer recalls her career as a bookseller, librarian, and Director of the Silverado Museum. She speaks of other bookellers and collectors, including Edward Dawson, Mrs. E.L. Doheny, and Norman Strouse.

Transcript: 1 v. (viii, 117 p., [1] folded leaf of plates) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 9 cassette tapes.

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Dawson, Edward, 1912-1993

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Doheny, Estelle, 1875-1958

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Carrie Estelle Betzold was born in 1875; married Edward L. Doheny, a Wisconsin-born Colorado miner who discovered oil in Los Angeles in 1892; when her husband died, Estelle Doheny inherited a fortune, with which she created a fine book collection and funded various Catholic charities; died in 1958. From the description of Miscellanea, 1934-1974. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38942827 Biography ...

Monihan, William J. (William Joseph), 1914-

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Strouse, Norman H.

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Regents' Professor, Librarianship 296A. From the description of Materials for seminar course, The Collecting of Books and Manuscripts : School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley, 1971 March - June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122354916 Norman Strouse was born outside Olympia, Washington in 1906. A high school graduate, he went to work for the "Seattle Post Intelligencer," where he advanced to handling the paper's national advertising. In 1949 he began a ...

Teiser, Ruth

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Teiser is a free-lance writer who has written extensively on the California wine industry. From the description of Papers, 1960-1990. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 43596964 ...

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

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Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-1994

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Ellen Kate Shaffer was born on April 24, 1904 in the small mining town of Leadville, Colorado. Upon completing high school, she moved with her family to California. After attending library school and graduating from the University of California at Los Angeles, she worked as an antiquarian bookseller and buyer at Dawson's Book Shop for a period of twenty-five years, with two breaks. In 1944 to 1945, she joined the Women's Air Corps and served in Dutch New Guinea and the Philippines. Then in 1951,...

Silverado Museum

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