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Oral histories.

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Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Paul Carraco oral history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4337
Scope and content

Recollections of tobacco growing in Kentucky, 1987, by Paul Carraco, with three page biographical note and 8x10 photograph.

Dates: 1987.

Pentagon march oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2479
Scope and content

Interviews discuss the interviewees' backgrounds and political philosophy, as well as detailing the events of the march.









Dates: 1967-1968.

Perception of change in the Ithaca City School district documentation project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1487
Scope and content In 1966-68, William Cutler, III (Ph.D. candidate in the history of education) interviewed nine people (13 interviews), including four members of the Board of Education, together with the dismissed superintendent and his successor were interviewed to no vote on the referendum and to consider possible relationships between these events. The interviews provide information for the study of interaction of major interest groups in the Ithaca area and the dynamics of the relationship between...
Dates: 1966-1974.

Richard Brown Scandrett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2623
Abstract

Mainly papers that document Scandrett's tenure (1934-36) as Treasurer of the Republican Committee of Orange County, New York.

Dates: 1907 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1951

Steven Muller interview by Keith R. Johnson

 Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065300935]
Identifier: 47-8-2898
Scope and content

Transcript and audiocassette of an interview with Muller conducted by Keith R. Johnson concerning activities at Cornell University, particularly events surrounding the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, Spring 1969. Includes discussion of the role of then President James A. Perkins.

Dates: 1994.

Student activism oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2478
Scope and content In the first interview, on June 20, 1966, David Brandt, the president of the Executive Board, was interviewed by Gould P. Colman about what led Cornell's student government to take a position on the draft exam and Vietnam and aobut the steps that the Executive Board took following the passage of the resolutions to educate the student body about the issues involved in the referendum. Brandt was also interviewed on November 22, 1966; (3 tapes, 3 transcripts). Additional interviews were...
Dates: 1966, 1968.

Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records

 Collection
Identifier: 6910
Abstract

Records from the inception of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (2003) to the completion of their quest for Landmarks designation (2007); items from Oral History program.

Dates: 1988-2014.

Trojan Horse oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-476
Scope and content

Interviews conducted by Gould P. Colman with John Marcham, editor of the Cornell Alumni News, on March 28, 1968 (1 tape, 1 transcript - pp. 1-82); and with James M. Herson, supervisor of public safety, on July 28, 1967, August 1, 1967, and August 4, 1967 (2 tapes, 2 transcripts)





Dates: 1967-1968.

W. Sterling Cole papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2081
Abstract

Representative Cole's papers, which pertain almost exclusively to his years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dates: [ca. 1935-1957]

William Joseph Griffin oral history interview

 Collection — Manuscript box 43 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249512]
Identifier: 1968
Abstract

Reminiscences concerning Griffin's life as a lumber camp worker, sawmill operator, farmer, and maple syrup cooperative president, and concerning the hardships of his Irish immigrant parents in the 1840s and 1850s. Interview conducted by Charles D. Bonsted.

Dates: 1958.