[T1S1] parents' background; father's mercantile business; parents' marriage; family's move from Ohio to Detroit; his service in the Army Training Corps in 1918; moves to Detroit to join his brother in a furniture business; religious observance in parents' home; recollections of high school education; cultural influences in his life; discussion of his career in the furniture business; expansion of the business; effects of the stock market crash of 1929; becomes director American Furniture Association; moves to Pittsburgh in 1930 to work with Leo Lehman for May Stern and Company; his service in Strategic Air Command during WWII; death of his partner, Leo Lehman.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.114_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.114
"Epstine, Harry - 1973" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Epstine, Harry - 1973
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Epstine, Harry, an entrepreneur in the furniture business, former director of the American Furniture Association, and National Trustee of the American Jewish Committee; born, 1899 in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Contributor
Epstine, Harry (interviewee), Frumerman, Marcia (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1973
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.114
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