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Guide to the Robert Price Papers
1930s-2012 (bulk 1958-1965)
 MS 3130

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Collection processed by Joseph Ditta

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Container List

Series V. Price personal, 1953-2003

Scope and Contents

Series V includes personal material (e.g., correspondence, tax and financial records, résumés, and newspaper compositions) of Robert Price and his wife, Margery, their daughter Eileen (Price) Farbman, and son, Steven Price.

Arrangement

Series V is divided in three chronologically organized sub-series:

Sub-series V.A. Robert Price, 1953–2003

Sub-series V.B. Eileen (Price) Farbman, 1977–1987

Sub-series V.C. Steven Price, 1975–1988

Sub-series V.A. Robert Price, 1953-2003
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 6 Folder : 6 Address / telephone book
 undated
Box: 6 Folder : 7 Columbia University School of Law
 1953-1984
Box: 6 Folder : 8 Park Lane Dairy

Scope and Contents

Material documenting the sale of Robert Price's father Solomon's grocery business, the Park Lane Dairy (594 Fort Washington Avenue, Manhattan), to the Gristedes supermarket chain.

1954-1961
Box: 6 Folder : 9 Art

Scope and Contents

Documentation of two artworks owned by Price: Everett Shinn's "Roman Amphitheatre" [sic] (1959-1965) and Rembrandt's etching "The Bathers" (1972).

1959-1965, 1972
Box: 6 Folder : 10 Robert Price résumés
 circa 1960s-1981
Box: 6 Folder : 11 Photographs
 1963-1964, undated
Box: 6 Folder : 12 Robert & Margery Price. Tax information
 1993
Box: 6 Folder : 13 Robert Price. Charitable contributions
 1996
Box: 6 Folder : 14-20 Robert Price. Taxes [7 folders]
 1998
Box: 7 Folder : 1-3 Price Family Foundation. Taxes [3 folders]
 1998-2001
Box: 7 Folder : 4 Checkbook balancer

Scope and Contents

A small, mechanical adding machine, with stylus, designed to fit in a checkbook. Produced by the Diamond Check Division of Diamond International Corporation beginning in 1972. For more information refer to the example held by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

circa 1972
Box: 7 Folder : 5 Bank statements, canceled checks. Citibank
 1986-1989
Box: 7 Folder : 6 Bank statements, canceled checks. Citibank
 2001-2003
Box: 7 Folder : 7 Bank statements, canceled checks. Chase
 2002-2003
Box: 7 Folder : 8 Miscellaneous
 1953-1984, undated

Sub-series V.B. Eileen (Price) Farbman, 1977-1987
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 7 Folder : 9 Eileen Price résumés, college admissions, etc.
 1977-circa 1983
Box: 7 Folder : 10 Steven & Eileen Farbman tax papers
 1987

Sub-series V.C. Steven Price, 1975-1988
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 7 Folder : 11 Bar Mitzvah Haftarah
 1975 March 1
Box: 7 Folder : 12 Newspaper profile

Scope and Contents

David C. Berliner, "Children's Express: News Kids on the Block," Washington Post, January 7, 1977.

1977 January 7
Box: 7 Folder : 13 Middle East trip
 1978
Box: 7 Folder : 14 Steven Price résumés
 circa 1981-1984
Box: 7 Folder : 15 Department of Defense internship
 1982
Box: 7 Folder : 16 Articles written for New York Times
 1980-1983
Box: 7 Folder : 17 Articles written for Brown Daily Herald
 1981-1983
Box: 7 Folder : 18 Brochure: "Can you picture Brown without its student newspaper?"
 circa 1984
Box: 7 Folder : 19 Articles written for Gainesville Sun
 1983 June-August
Box: 7 Folder : 20 Brown University
 1981-1984
Box: 7 Folder : 21 Brown University Commencement
 1984
Box: 7 Folder : 22 Columbia University School of Law
 1984, 1988
Box: 7 Folder : 23 Goldman Sachs
 1984
Box: 7 Folder : 24 Taxes
 1988

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