Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Arch N. Bobbitt oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH014
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the tapes and transcript drafts of three interviews with Arch N. Bobbitt conducted by Randall Jehs for the Indiana State Library oral history project on August 30, September 11, and September 17, 1974. In the first interview, Bobbitt discusses his childhood and education; how his interest in politics developed; Indiana politics in the 1920s including the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and D. C. Stephenson; and the state gasoline tax department. In the second interview,...
Dates:
1974 August-September; 1978
Edwin K. Steers oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH024
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises two copies of a transcript of the January 5th interview and two audio tape reels from oral history interviews with Edwin K. Steer in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 5 and 12 1977; February 10, 1977; and March 9, 1977, regarding his childhood; family history; 1918 influenze epidemic; Indianapolis, including the Irvington neighborhood; education and law school; recreational activities; women's suffrage, politics, railroads, the Shriners, church, Prohibition; law...
Dates:
1977 January-March
Edwin M. S. Steers oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH056
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises part of an audiotape reel from an oral history interview with Edwin M. S. Steers in Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 12, 1977, regarding his childhood in Orleans, education, Indiana politics, and career as a lawyer and in the insurance industry. He was interviewed by F. Gerald Handfield as part of the Indiana State Library Oral History Project. His son Edwin K. Steers was also present.
Dates:
1977/01/12
Historical Society of Porter County, Inc. newsletter
Collection — Folder S0683
Identifier: S0683
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a newsletter of the Historical Society of Porter County Inc. from 1971. The newsletter contains transcriptions of the group's first attempt at creating oral histories, with different members of the community relating stories about family members who were early pioneers of Porter County, Indiana and discussions of the county's historic buildings. One interview of note relates an older gentleman's rememberances from his childhood of his time spent with Lew Wallace.
Dates:
1971
Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), I-69 Corridor oral histories
Collection
Identifier: OH286
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises typed transcripts and audio CDs containing files from oral history interviews with six interviewees in Greene and Monroe counties, Indiana in 2015, regarding companies and individuals involved in the I-69 Section 4 mitigation. These interviews are as follows:1. Ronnie Wilcoxin interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/02/19, regarding Clifty Church in Greene County and the surrounding community.2. Patrick J. Munson, interviewed by Melissa Burlock...
Dates:
2015-2019
Indiana Oral History Roundtable collection
Collection
Identifier: L419
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, newsletters, receipts, workshop papers, photographs, negatives, 35mm slides, newspaper and magazine articles, and audio recordings from the Indiana Oral History Roundtable in Indiana, ranging from 1962 to 1985, regarding the organization, its members, and its activities.
Dates:
1962-1985
Oral history and audio collection
Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates:
circa 1904-2019
Randall Galvin oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH112
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the transcript and two ree-to-reel audiotapes from two oral history interviews with Randall Galvin, conducted by Susan Bell of the Indiana State Library on October 24, 1973 and May 9, 1975. In the first interview Galvin tells how he came to own the Black Curtain Dinner Theatre and how he dealt with the renovations. The second interview consists of detailed accounts of costs and expenses of operating the theatre, as well as advice for newcomers to the theatre business....
Dates:
1973/10/24; 1975/05/09
Vigo County Public Library, Donald Eugene Foltz oral history
Collection — Box 73, Folder: OH173
Identifier: OH172
Dates:
1981/06/29
