Andree Abecassis
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content: Anchor Brewing Company
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content: Anchor Brewing Company Records
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content: Anchor Brewing Company Records / Series 7: Photographs, Negatives, Transparencies, and Slides
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content: 1992-1996, undated
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Born December 20, 1938, in New York City to Albert and Lettie Abecassis, Andree was raised in an apartment on West 70th Street with her parents, maternal grandmother and maternal aunts-all members of a large Sephardic family from Essaouira, Morocco. She attended PS 87, Joan of Arc Junior HS, the High School of Music and Art and Barnard College ('60)-every one of those schools reachable on the M104 city bus. Editor-in-chief of the Barnard Bulletin, she earned an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and pursued a career in photojournalism, working for years at The Saturday Evening Post and later Channel 13 and The 51st State. In 1973, Andree moved cross-country to Berkeley, where for 15 years she lugged her heavy camera equipment all over the state as a freelancer photographer shooting celebrities, events, and her favorite subjects: her many friends and their families. In the '90s she cheerfully leaped into yet another media career, joining her mother at Ann Elmo Agency-the family literary agency founded by two of her aunts. She died in 2020.

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New York Times, Obituary, November 17, 2020.