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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

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on March 29, 2023
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Container List

Series IV. Price professional, 1958-1990

Scope and Contents

Series IV contains material spanning Robert Price's evolving professional career, from his days as a law clerk serving Judge Archie Owen Dawson of United States District Court, Southern District of New York, to his law partnership with Theodore R. Kupferman, through his days with the Dreyfus Fund (investment firm) and Lazard Frères & Co. (investment bankers), and his own Price Capital Corporation and Price Communications Corporation. Coverage is spotty.

Arrangement

Material is organized chronologically.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Offsite-Box: 4 Folder : 23 Robert Price, "Monetary Remedies Under the Untied States Copyright Code"

Scope and Contents

Published in Fordham Law Review, vol. 27, no. 4 (Winter 1958–59), 555–578. [Folder contains complete issue and offprint.]

1958-1959
Offsite-Box: 4 Folder : 24 Robert Price, "The Admissibility of Wiretap Evidence in the Federal Courts"

Scope and Contents

Published in University of Miami Law Review, vol. 14 (1959), 57–71. [Folder contains offprint.]

1959
Offsite-Box: 4 Folder : 25-26 United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York [2 folders]

Scope and Contents

Robert Price served as law clerk to Judge Archie Owen Dawson, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1958–1959, and as Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1959–1960.

1958-1959
Offsite-Box: 4 Folder : 27-29 United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit [3 folders]
1959-1960
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 1 Kupferman & Price

Scope and Contents

Law partnership of Robert Price and Theodore R. Kupferman; dissolved in 1965 when Price was appointed Deputy Mayor of New York City. [Attorney and New York City council member Theodore Kupferman (1920-2003) would succeed to John Lindsay's vacated seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 17th district, serving February 8, 1966 – January 3, 1969.]

1960-1965
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 2 Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] annual report
1960
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 3 Atlantic States Industries
1964
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 4-5 United States Jaycees [Junior Chamber of Commerce] award [2 folders]

Scope and Contents

Robert Price was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America for 1966 by the United States Jaycees, affiliated with Junior Chamber International, a leadership training and civic organization for people between the ages of 18 and 40. Price's fellow honorees included future United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr., and political activist Ralph Nader.

1966-1967
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 6-11 Dreyfus Fund [6 folders]

Scope and Contents

Robert Price was Executive Vice President and a Director of the Dreyfus Corporation and Investment Officer for the Dreyfus Fund, 1966-1969.

1966-1969
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 12-16 Price Capital Corporation. General [5 folders]

Scope and Contents

Robert Price was President then Chairman of the Board of Price Capital Corporation (later called Highland Capital Corporation), 1969-1972.

1969-1971
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 17-24 Lazard Frères & Co. [8 folders]

Scope and Contents

Robert Price was Vice President and General Partner of Lazard Frères & Co., Investment Bankers, 1972-1978.

1972-1982
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 25 Lane Bryant

Scope and Contents

Robert Price was elected to the board of directors of Lane Bryant, the women's clothing store chain, in 1977.

1977
Offsite-Box: 5 Folder : 26 Intarome Fragrance Corporation
1978-1986
Offsite-Box: 6 Folder : 1-2 Price Communications Corporation [2 folders]

Scope and Contents

Robert Price was founder and president of Price Communications Corporation. By 1985 PCC owned and operated 3 television and 11 radio stations, and, in that year, purchased the New York Law Journal.

1979-1989
Offsite-Box: 6 Folder : 3 WPCK AM / WIRK FM
1983-1984
Offsite-Box: 6 Folder : 4-5 Telemation, Inc. / TLM Corporation [2 folders]
1986-1990

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