Transcript of oral history, 1987.

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Transcript of oral history, 1987.

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Interview with Dorothy Feiner Rodgers, inventor, writer, business woman, and wife of Richard Rodgers, by Jane Knowles, August-October 1987, sponsored by the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Also interview tapes, shelved separately as T-216.

1v. (iv, 206 p.)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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