Oral history interview with Frederick Henry Osborn, 1967
Oral history interview with Frederick Henry Osborn, 1967
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- Name
- Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981 (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Frederick Henry Osborn, 1967
- Abstract
- Trustee of Carnegie Corporation from 1936; impressions of other board members; role of the Corporation, World War II service; postwar foreign affairs programs; area studies; Alger Hiss; Congressional investigations; impressions of Russell Leffingwell, Morris Hadley, Charles Dollard, and others.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Executives; Endowments; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Education and state; Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1967
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 145 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Foundation and corporation executive, government official.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on December 20, 22, 1966; January 11, 1967.
- Sound quality is poor at times.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-qs41-xq91