Oral history interview with Nat Imber, 2007 October 11.

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Oral history interview with Nat Imber, 2007 October 11.

Interview with Nat Imber, a Navy veteran, concerning his childhood and education at New York University, work with Works Progress Administration-funded physical education programs; career in New York public schools; enlistment in U.S. Navy following Pearl Harbor; experience in the service as a Jew; assignment as physical training instructor to bases in Virginia, California, and Maryland; marriage to Dorothy; move to wife's hometown of Fort Worth, then to New York City, and again to Fort Worth; career in sales, culminating in ownership of several clothing and liquor stores.

71, [1] leaves ; 29 cm.

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