Jam Handy Organization records, 1894-1984
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Olympic Games (8th : 1924 : Paris, France)
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Jam Handy Organization, inc.
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Background The Jam Handy Organization, founded in the late 1930s by Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy in Detroit, Michigan, was an industrial film production firm which made thousands of movies never theatrically released to the general public. These films were typically of an educational, training or advertising nature, although it may be said that most were a combination. Clients such as General Motors (who was a neighbor, as well as their largest ...
Handy, Jamison, 1886-1983
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The Jam Handy Organization was founded in 1918 by Jamison (Jail) Handy, a former newspaperman and Olympic swimmer. Jamison Handy--better known as "Jam"--was born in Philadelphia in 1886. The youngest of seven children, he was the son of Sarah Matthews and Major Moses P. Handy. His father was a newspaper editor for various publications including the Chicago Times-Herald, and his mother was also a writer, with her fiction and verse published in numerous magazines, among th...
