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Carl A. Kroch papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-1-2790

Dates

  • 1958-1998.

Creator

Extent

8 cubic feet. (8 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Carl A. Kroch (1915-1999) owned and operated the Chicago-area bookstore chain Kroch’s and Brentano’s from 1947-1986. This collection includes diaries, a typescript memoir, photographs, and other personal items, as well as business records from Kroch’s and Brentano’s and records pertaining to Kroch’s gifts to Cornell University in the 1980s and 1990s.

Description rules
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Language of description
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Script of description
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Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)