From structural steel to the arts
By: Stephen Gale Herrick ; with an introduction by James D. Hart ; interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Lisa Jacobson in 1988 and 1989.
Contributors: Hart, James David, 1911-; Teiser, Ruth.; Jacobson, Lisa.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Herrick Iron Works History Project.
Published: 1991
Subjects: Herrick Iron Works.; Businessmen -- California -- Interviews.; Book collectors -- California -- Interviews.
Description: Herrick discusses his family background and education; Herrick Iron Works: founding, 1921, by Stephen Scholes Herrick, to sale in 1960; recollections of bidding strategies, project financing, labor negotiations, wartime contracts, competitors; book collecting, bookbinding, music and theater; HEDCO Foundation founding, board members, and granting policies.