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| Title: | Oral history interview with Carel Sellenraad |
| Authors: | Sellenraad, Carel |
| Keywords: | Computer history
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Dutch
World War, 1914-1918 -- France
United States. -- Army. -- American Expeditionary Forces
Tabulating machines
Sales management
Rotterdam (Netherlands) -- Description
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
Calculators
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Bookkeeping machines
Advertising -- Office equipment and supplies industry.
Accounting machines. |
| Issue Date: | 1984 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Carel Sellenraad, OH 243. Oral history interview by Lee H. Allen, 1982-1984, Gross Point, Michigan. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107630 |
| Abstract: | In this wide-ranging interview, Sellenraad describes his long association with Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the impact of World Wars I & II on the sales and service of calculators, and adding and bookkeeping machines in Europe.
Subjects include: Sellenraad's emigration from Rotterdam, Netherlands to the United States prior to World War I; his employment as a Burroughs salesman after a succession of jobs; his volunteering to serve in the Expeditionary Force and experiences in Europe during World War I; his work in international advertising for Burroughs upon his return to the United States; his return to Rotterdam to work with a Burroughs agency; his management of the Burroughs sales force in the Netherlands after 1938 and through World War II; and conditions in the Netherlands during World War II. |
| Description: | Transcript, 219 pp. |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107630 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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