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Press I.D. Card, Weimar (with photograph and photonegative copy), [1919]

 File — Box: 133, Folder: 3010

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Awards, certificates, address books, appointment books, stationery, personal items, official membership cards and some legal documents. Includes identification cards for movie sets (Twentieth Century Fox and Metro Goldwyn Mayer) as well as press identification cards, such as the one Ben carried when he was on assignment in Germany in 1919. One of the earliest items is a violin recital program featuring Benjamin Hecht performing Accolay's Concerto in A minor, from 1907 when Ben was 14 years old. There is a folder documenting Rose Hecht's activities in the early World War II years, when she received certification in aircraft mechanics at the Nyack Vocational School and became a Cyclone builder.

Dates

  • Creation: [1919]

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Ben Hecht papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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