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Title
Part 17: Great Depression Bank Holiday (Windows Media version)
Creator
Lewandowski, Thomas, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Institution
Oakland Community College

Subject
Banks and banking -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Depressions -- 1929 -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Stock market crash -- 1929.

Item Number
EX01b017

Relation
Extracts from oral histories of Hamtramck, MI in the Albert J. Zak Memorial Library (Hamtramck), Detroit Public Library (Burton Collection), Hamtramck Historical Collection, Library of Michigan, Macomb County Library, Oakland Community College Libraries.

Type
sound, image

Format
mpeg2

Description
Cass Piotrowski, attorney and Liberty State Bank Board member tells how there was no need for the banks in Hamtramck to close for the infamous Bank Holiday in 1933.

Part 17: Great Depression Bank Holiday (Windows Media version)

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