Oral history interview with Helen Atherton Govier, 1974 January 25.

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Oral history interview with Helen Atherton Govier, 1974 January 25.

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Helen Atherton Govier talks about her brother, Charles Morgan Herbert Atherton, a professional baseball player for the Washington Senators in 1899, and his musical social work with Bohemians and Czechs in New York City, and his travels to Europe with Czechs during World War I where he died; her sister Harriet Cushman Atherton, eldest brother Frank, younger sisters Annie and Mary, and her father George W. Atherton; and a fire on the campus of Penn State.

Transcript: 27 leaves.

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