Samuel Weller, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Everett L. Cooley

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Title Samuel Weller, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Everett L. Cooley
Alternative Title No. 87, Samuel Weller, interview by Everett L. Cooley
Creator Weller, Sam, 1921-2009
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1983-10-28; 1983-11-04
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Date Digital 2014-09-16
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Weller, Sam, 1921-2009--Interviews; Booksellers and bookselling--Utah--Salt Lake City--Biography; Bookstores--Utah--Salt Lake City--History
Description Transcript (46, 49, 24 pages) of two interviews by Everett L. Cooley with Sam Weller, owner of Zion bookstore in Salt Lake City, on October 28 and November 4, 1983. This interview is no. 87 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. U-374, U-375, and U-376
Abstract Weller (b. 1921) recalls his early life in Germany and later in Salt Lake City; the establishment of Zions Book Store in 1929 by his father, Gustave Weller; his marriage and business partnership with his wife, Lila; and his career as a bookseller and proprietor of Zions Book Store, 1940s-1980s. Interviewer: Everett L. Cooley
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Topic Booksellers and bookselling; Bookstores
Setname uum_elc
ID 804297
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63x9tzn