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Eleanor Harpring transcript, 1940-1945, Date acquired: 12/20/2001

 

Summary

Creator:
Harpring, Eleanor , 1925-2019
Extent:
1.00 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Eleanor Harpring transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0610

Background

Scope and content:

This oral interview was taken of Eleanor Harpring who served in the United Service Organization (USO) during the time of World War II. She traveled to various military bases in the U.S. and Europe to perform. She saw the destruction after the war, and how Kassel, Germany was demolished and families were destroyed due to the bombing. She also explains how living conditions for women and children during the war, and how she would help. She also describes all about her travels during and after World War II.

Biographical / historical:

Eleanor Harpring was born on November 8, 1925 on St. Marks Place in New York City to Romilda and George Porrazzo, the youngest of five children in an Italian immigrant family. A rapid advancement student at Washington Irving High School, Eleanor graduated at 16. Like many of her generation, she helped support her family by going to work at an early age. Though she had hoped to attend college and study journalism, she instead found jobs singing with bands, thus embarking on a ten-year career in show business.

Acquisition information:
Reichelt Oral History Program
Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Eleanor Harpring transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0610

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA