Reminiscences of Edmund Astley Prentis and Katherine Prentis Murphy : oral history, 1962.

Biographical Note

Mining engineer, collector; interviewees were brother and sister.

Scope and Contents

Columbia College School of Mines; mining experiences, Mexico and Peru; Spencer, White & Prentis; military construction; White House repairs; King's College Room, Columbia, furnishings and acquisitions; comments on antique collecting.

Subjects

• Collectors and collecting.
• Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). School of Mines.
• Interviews.
• Mining engineering.
• Mining engineers.
• Murphy, Katharine Prentis, 1882-1969.
• Murphy, Katharine Prentis, 1882-1969.
• Oral histories.
• Prentis, Edmund Astley, 1883-1967.
• Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States. Army--Military construction.

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