Edmund C. Berkeley papers, 1923-1980.

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Edmund C. Berkeley papers, 1923-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62481286

Contains correspondence, notes, memoranda, lists, reports, reference material, financial records, publications, posters, advertisements, photographs, and a videotape relating to Berkeley and Berkeley Enterprises. The earliest records in the collection relate to his insurance work, the applications of symbolic logic and computing machines to business, the formation of the Association for Computing Machinery, and his military service at Dahlgren. Later records focus on the publications and operations of Berkeley Enterprises as well as Berkeley's social activism. Prominent correspondents include Norman Cousins, Linus Pauling, Corliss Lamont, Ivan Sutherland, Menachem S. Arnoni, Florence Luscomb, Hyman Ruchlis, and Richard Ruopp.

75 cubic ft. (83 boxes)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7815948

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Arnoni, M. S. (Menachem S.), 1922-1985

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