Interview with Jacob Persoff
Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1980
Material: height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, 4 pages
Contributor: Susman, Warren, 1927-1985
Identifier: aql:2282 1980.8.68WF39 QMOA
Description: Jacob Persoff recalls attending the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair as a young man, including courting his wife, refusing to enter the Italian Pavilion because of the war in Europe, and being impressed by the sculpture of King Jagiello in front of the Polish Pavilion. Transcript dated September 14th; part of an oral history project under the direction of Warren Susman in 1980. Some transcripts may be incomplete or may not follow the interview verbatim.
Contributor :
Susman, Warren, 1927-1985
Date :
1980
Summary/Description :
Jacob Persoff recalls attending the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair as a young man, including courting his wife, refusing to enter the Italian Pavilion because of the war in Europe, and being impressed by the sculpture of King Jagiello in front of the Polish Pavilion. Transcript dated September 14th; part of an oral history project under the direction of Warren Susman in 1980. Some transcripts may be incomplete or may not follow the interview verbatim.
Subject :
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Travel; World War, 1939-1945; Long Island Rail Road
Rights :
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
Coverage :
Queens (New York, N.Y.) Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.) Poland Italy
Type :
transcripts
Format :
height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, 4 pages
Identifier :
aql:2282 1980.8.68WF39 QMOA
Subject:
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Travel; World War, 1939-1945; Long Island Rail Road
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Travel; World War, 1939-1945; Long Island Rail Road
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
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