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Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in Central Europe, fleeing to Egypt, Palestine, and his migration to the U.S. Additionally, Rosenzweig talks about their meeting and marriage, work in Canada and Mexico, opening a glass factory in Athens, Texas, moving to Decatur, employee relations, products and the production process, the distribution system, financing methods, her managing the business, sale of the business, and reparations from the Austrian government.
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Rosenzweig, Bertha
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Annie Belle Emery Bright, Frances Marion Allen, and Sheila Emery Allen on Mediterranean cruise photograph album] (open access)

[Annie Belle Emery Bright, Frances Marion Allen, and Sheila Emery Allen on Mediterranean cruise photograph album]

Photograph album chronicling Annie Belle Emery Bright, Frances Marion Allen, and Sheila Emery Allen's Mediterranean cruise trip. The women visited ruins, religious sites, and public markets. Places visited include Serbia, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jerusalem, Turkey, Greece, and Spain. Most of the photographs are labeled with typed strips of paper.
Date: 1963
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greece Since the Coup D'Etat (open access)

Greece Since the Coup D'Etat

This report discusses the 1967 coup in Greece and its aftermath along with current conditions in Greece economically, socially, and politically .
Date: July 26, 1972
Creator: Mian, Pauline A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Light of Dark-Age Athens: Factors in the Survival of Athens after the Fall of Mycenaean Civilization (open access)

The Light of Dark-Age Athens: Factors in the Survival of Athens after the Fall of Mycenaean Civilization

When looking at Dark Age Greece, one of the most important sites to consider is Athens. The Dark Age was a transitional period between the fall of Mycenaean Greece of the Bronze Age, and Archaic Greece of the Iron Age. This period is called the Dark Age because the palaces that ruled the Mycenaean age collapsed, and with them fell civilization in mainland Greece. Writing, fine art, massive architecture, trade, and luxury goods disappear from mainland Greece. But Athens survived the fall of the Mycenaeans. In order to understand the reason why Athens survived one must look at what the causes of the fall of the Mycenaeans were. Theories range from raiders and invasion, to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, droughts, and plagues. One must also examine Greece itself. The landscape and climate of Greece have a large impact on the settlement of the Greeks. The land of Greece also affects what Greek communities were able to do economically, whether a city would be rich or poor. It is because Athens is located in Attica that it survived. Attica had the poorest soil in the Mycenaean world, and was the poorest of the major cities, therefore, when looking at the …
Date: May 2015
Creator: Golightly, Paul
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mothering & Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

A book of collected scholarly essays on topics related to motherhood in ancient Greece and Rome.
Date: 2013
Creator: Petersen, Lauren Hackworth & Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History