G. Fox & Co. oral history collection, 2006-2009.

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G. Fox & Co. oral history collection, 2006-2009.

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Transcriptions of interviews with former employees of G. Fox & Co., a Hartford department store, and two grandchildren of Beatrice Fox Auerbach who was store president from 1938 to 1965. Subjects include: recollections of Beatrice Fox Auerbach and G. Fox & Co., Moses Fox Club dinners, changes that occurred after the 1965 sale of G. Fox & Co. to May Department Stores, Inc., changes in Hartford over time, and Eleanor Roosevelt's visits with Beatrice Fox Auerbach. Participants include: Amedeo Michael Aiello, Mary Barry, Joseph Biancanelli, Harry Black, Bruce Blawie, Roslyn Blawie, Jan Breer, Carmelo Brutto, Carl Candels, Thea Coburn, Robert Giovino, Fran Gordon, Delia Griffin, Janice Harman, Eliza Hazel, Eunice Kelly, Dorothy Brooks Koopman, Rena Koopman, Shirley Koplowitz, Betty Ladd, Frank Laraia, Jay Lichtenbaum, Jack Litter, Alberta Martucci, Jennie Martucci, Paul Mullen, Ira Neimark, John Pontillo, Fanny Raptopoulos, Irene Riley, Irma Sobol, Joseph Tine, Antonina Uccello, Philip Witham. Conducted by Bruce and Sondra Astor Stave of the Stave Group, Oral History Consultants.

3 boxes (1.5 linear feet).

Connecticut Historical Society

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Black, Harry G.

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Stave, Bruce M.

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Hazel, Elizabeth

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G. Fox & Co.

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Aiello, Amedeo Michael.

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Laraia, Frank.

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G. Fox & Co. Moses Fox Club.

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Sobol, Irma.

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Lichtenbaum, Jay.

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Witham, Philip.

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Blawie, Roslyn.

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Raptopoulos, Fanny.

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