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Text from Dorothy Cavallo Interview

Collection: Sunnyside Sound Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library: Dorothy Cavallo
Date: 2009 Material: digital image Dimension: 84 kb (digital image)
Creator: Dorothy Cavallo Identifier: aql:18185 cavallo_dorothy_doc cavallo_dorothy_doc.pdf

Description: Built in the 1930s by Henry Phipps and Clarence Stein, the Phipps Garden Apartments offered 472 clean, bright and safe apartments to working class families. Phipps and Stein's social vision was to encourage tenants to actively participate in the communal living environment, and Dorothy Cavallo, who moved to Sunnyside as "a brand new bride"in 1958, was quick to implement their ideals.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:18078

Creator : Dorothy Cavallo

Date : 2009

Summary/Description : Built in the 1930s by Henry Phipps and Clarence Stein, the Phipps Garden Apartments offered 472 clean, bright and safe apartments to working class families. Phipps and Stein's social vision was to encourage tenants to actively participate in the communal living environment, and Dorothy Cavallo, who moved to Sunnyside as "a brand new bride"in 1958, was quick to implement their ideals.

Subject : Cavallo, Dorothy

Rights : These audio recordings, photos and articles are the property of Sabine Heinlein. Uses of edited excerpts from her interviews are protected under a Creative Commons public domain license, but her full, unedited audio is open to researchers by request. Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for access. For reproductions of the unedited recordings, please contact Sabine Heinlein at (sabineheinlein@gmail.com).

Coverage : Sunnyside, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : digital image

Format : digital image; 84 kb (digital image)

Identifier : aql:18185 cavallo_dorothy_doc cavallo_dorothy_doc.pdf

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Rights Notice
These audio recordings, photos and articles are the property of Sabine Heinlein. Uses of edited excerpts from her interviews are protected under a Creative Commons public domain license, but her full, unedited audio is open to researchers by request. Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for access. For reproductions of the unedited recordings, please contact Sabine Heinlein at (sabineheinlein@gmail.com).


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