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Stanley Garfinkel (1930-1997) was an oral historian, documentarian, and history professor at Kent State University. After
college, Garfinkel worked in his family's seven-store chain Garfinkel Shoes. He was appointed office manager of the company
in the early 1960s, but was encouraged by his father to pursue his dream of teaching. He obtained a position at Kent State
University in 1963 and taught there until his retirement in 1996. Garfinkel had a special interest in oral history. One of
Garfinkel's oral history projects was on the garment industry in Cleveland, Ohio. He interviewed several people who worked
in or helped shape the garment industry. He then used those interviews to produce a slide show entitled "Rags: 100 Years of
the Apparel Industry in Northeast Ohio," and a television documentary entitled "Rags." The collection consists of interview
transcripts and scripts.
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