Neil Osterweil Oral Histories and Research Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tupper, Earl Silas, 1907-
label: Collection Creator
content: Tupper Corporation
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content: Earl S. Tupper Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1989
label: Date
content: bulk 1987-1989
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0470, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of material assembled by Neil Osterweil, a writer/researcher commissioned by the Tupper family to write Earl Tupper's biography. Most of the materials assembled here as research files are duplicates of materials found in Series 1, 2 and 3. This series also contains the early outlines and drafts of this autobiography, which was never finished. In 1988 and 1989, Osterweil conducted oral history interviews with Tupper's daughter and four sons, along with other family members and longtime friends, and former Tupperware executives. The original tapes (Subseries 4.2) have been dubbed onto audiocassettes (Subseries 4.3) for researcher use, and master reel to reels for preservation (Subseries 4.4). There are transcripts available for some interviews.