Oral history interview with Carel Sellenraad

Sellenraad, Carel
1984
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Oral history interview with Carel Sellenraad

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1984

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Charles Babbage Institute

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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.

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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

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Sellenraad, Carel. (1984). Oral history interview with Carel Sellenraad. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107630.

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