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Oral histories.

 Subject
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Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell Migrant Program campus collection

 Collection
Identifier: 23-13-3582
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, research studies, publicity, slides, tapes, 40 oral histories (conducted by Neil Schwartzbach of the Community and Rural Development Institute), and subject files documenting the Cornell campus migrant program and other farmworker-oriented organizations, not generally available from other sources.

Dates: 1953-2007.

Cornell University College of Human Ecology Graduate Summer Archival Research Fellowship records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924131118295]
Identifier: 23-2-4623
Content Description

Collection contains material from the College of Human Ecology Graduate Summer Archival Research Fellowship, which grew out of the Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics. Includes s 22 interviews from people who were 4-H instructors of sewing clubs in NYS from the 1940s-1990s (digital files). The collection also includes a copy of Kathleen McCormick's paper, published in December of 2024. She was the 2023 fellowship recipient.

Dates: 2024

Cornell University Library Project oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-957
Scope and content

Retiring university librarians debriefing exercises. Tapes and transcripts of interviews with Stephen A. McCarthy, David Kaser, and J. Gormly Miller concerning the operation of the Cornell University Libraries during their respective administrations. Also, earlier interview with Otto Kinkeldey by Professor Donald J. Grout, July 22, 1965.

Dates: 1965-1984.

Dale R. Corson oral histories

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065461869]
Identifier: 13-6-2556
Scope and content Reflections on his career and tenure at Cornell University include assessments of the contributions of individuals and organizations to education, industry, and public life. Subjects include athletics, administration, the budget, black students, faculty, trustees, students, and the Presidents' Papers Project. Major individuals mentioned include James A. Perkins, Robert Kane, Robert Plane, W. Keith Kennedy, Solomon C. Hollister, Robert Purcell, and Arthur H. Dean. Interviews by Gould P....
Dates: 1981-1994.

Edwin G. Boring interviews

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942638]
Identifier: 3679
Scope and content

Typed transcription of an oral history interviews of Edwin G. Boring, July 5-9, 1961, conducted by John Chynoweth Burnham and supported by the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry. Concerns Boring's childhood and early life, his path to the study of psychology, his time teaching at Harvard (1922-1957, emeritus 1958-1968), and his research. Includes his reminiscences of Edward Bradford Titchener.



Dates: 1961.

Elbert P. and Sara Sutherland Tuttle interview

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2471
Scope and content Interview with Judge Elbert P. and Mrs. Sara Sutherland Tuttle, May 25, 1988. In the interview Judge Tuttle discusses his secondary schooling in Hawaii, selection of Cornell by six of thirty-five in his graduating class, his arrival with brother and mother in Ithaca, his work on the Cornell Daily Sun, his impressions of E.B. White, his observations of preparation for World War I at Cornell, the couple's recollection of their courtship, her completion of a degree from Goucher College at...
Dates: 1988.

Eleanor Norton York interview

 Collection — Cassette box 14 - TR-20274
Identifier: 8840
Content Description Oral history interview conducted by Robin Dennis with Eleanor Norton York as part of an Ithaca High School assignment. Topics discussed include Vetsburg for soliders coming to Cornell University on the G.I. Bill York’s childhood; her education in Ithaca and the development of elementary and high schools in the Ithaca area; her occupations including working at Girl Scout camp Comstock, working at the YMCA, teaching; religion in Ithaca, Ithaca community and race, town and gown relations...
Dates: 1992-06-03

Empire State Forest Products Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1280
Abstract Minutes and reports of annual meetings and committees, financial reports, membership lists, circular letters, surveys, pamphlets, articles, scrapbook and photographs. Also, material concerning forest fires, pest damage and control, and legislation affecting the forest industry, the "Keep New York Green" Committee and use of wood as fuel during World War I. Includes Arthur B. Recknagel papers (formerly collection #1891). Monthly reports, minutes, printed material, and a transcript of an...
Dates: 1917-1961.

Eugene McCarthy oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-279
Abstract

Oral history interview transcripts related to the election of delegates pledged to Eugene McCarthy from the 33rd Congressional District to the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Dates: 1968-1969.

Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1230
Abstract

Biannual conversations with adults and children eight and older, individually and in family groups, in a panel of thirty-three New York and Iowa farm families concerning how the occupation of farming is organized and conducted.

Dates: 1966-1982.