Reminiscences of Lois Murkland : oral history, 1966.

Biographical Note

Secretary to Robert M. Lester, Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Scope and Contents

Coming to work at Carnegie Corporation, 1934; day-to-day office life and administrative duties at Carnegie; grantmaking procedures; preparing documentary materials for Congressional investigation committee; 1935-1943; working for Social Science Research Council; Public Library Inquiry; 1944-1945. Impressions of Robert M. Lester, Frederick P. Keppel, Florence Anderson, Durand F. Miller.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Endowments--Auditing.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Murkland, Lois--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Public Library Inquiry (Project)
• Secretaries--Interviews.
• Social Science Research Council (U.S.)