J. Rupert Mason on single tax, irrigation districts and municipal bankruptcy : oral history transcript / James Rupert Mason ; tape recorded interview conducted at San Francisco, Calif. by Willa K. Baum in 1957. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1957 :

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J. Rupert Mason on single tax, irrigation districts and municipal bankruptcy : oral history transcript / James Rupert Mason ; tape recorded interview conducted at San Francisco, Calif. by Willa K. Baum in 1957. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1957 : and related material, 1957.

Notes his family and early life, including experiences as a bondsalesman; his own firm in San Francisco; his ideas on irrigation and municipal bond issues and government controls; theories of taxation; interest in and work for various water and power developments and against land monopolies. Portrait photograph and illustrative printed material inserted.

Transcript : ix, 372 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 615:17) and positive.

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Baum, Willa K.

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Willa Klug Baum was a nationally prominent oral historian and long-time director of the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley. She was born in Chicago in 1926, and grew up in Europe and Ramona, California. She graduated from Whittier College, but work and family obligations kept her from completing her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. Instead Baum joined ROHO as an editor and interviewer, and became head of the program in 1958. During her years as director over 1,600 i...

Mason, J. Rupert (James Rupert), 1886-1959.

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Regional Cultural History Project (University of California, Berkeley)

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