Reminiscences of Theodore Fred Kuper, 1963

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Education, New York University Law School; early practice, New York, N.Y.; oil buxiness; Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1923-1932; acquisition of Monticello; efforts to preserve other Virginia antiquities; consultant to New York, N.Y., Board of Education, 1927-1943. Impressions of Fiorello La Guardia and Claude G. Bowers

Subjects

• Gold, Neil, interviewer.
• Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration.
• Interviews.
• Kuper, Theodore Fred, 1886-1981--Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Petroleum industry and trade.
• Schools--New York (State)--New York.
• Virginia--Antiquities.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972