[78-L] Seipp

[David Lennick]

Sorry, that was Robert W. Seipp I was posting. In any case, we knew "Bob Seipp" 
from Chicago and lost track of him about ten years ago.

dl

On 3/18/2013 10:44 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> A chunk was lost when a storage facility caught fire, or it might have been his
> garage. He was a member of CAPS and used to drive all the way to Toronto to
> attend meetings, if it's the same guy, but he was living in Chicago then.
>
> Could be this guy..you ever get the feeling that there's too much information
> accessible?
>
> http://www.death-record.com/l/133508019/Robert-W-Seipp
>
> dl
>
> On 3/18/2013 9:40 PM, David Lewis wrote:
>> Robert C. Seipp  was the curator/producer of the 1960s TV program "The Toy That Grew Up," the very show that introduced me to silent films when I was 6 or 7 years old.
>>
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>> In a 1993 piece for Classic Images, Samuel K. Rubin wrote "Seipp, an authority on the era of the silents, also collects old phonographs, phonograph records, transcriptions and cylinders.
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>> His record library numbers over 75,000 and includes many historical recordings of such famous people as Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan and many turn-of-the-century entertainers."
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>> Seipp was also president at one time of the Minnesota Association of Farm Mutual Insurance Companies or MAFMIC. A service award was created in his name, and first presented to him in 1986. A listing of past recipients of this award lists him as now deceased, and shows that his residence was in Tyler.
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>>
>> Anyone know what happened to Robert C. Seipp's collection?
>>
>> Uncle Dave Lewis
>> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com