George Rapp, 1972

George Rapp was the head silversmith for The Stieff Company and a native Baltimorean. In this oral history interview, he discusses: Childhood in St. Denis, now Arbutus, Maryland; first employment at Schultz Silver Company and Scofield Company for eighteen years; radar equipment work for Stieff during World War II; mechanization of silversmith processes; manufacture of Williamsburg reproduction silver; working at the Smithsonian Institution Craft Fair in Washington, D.C.