Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the technique of recording the oral recollections of persons concerning their knowledge of historical events as well as collections of such recollections. Individual oral histories are entered under the appropriate subject, e.g. United States--Civilization--1918-1945. Works on the technique of recording sounds of events for historical examination as well as collections of such recordings are entered under Aural history.
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Student Life: WOBC Radio Station Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-007
Scope and Contents
This collection has been divided into two subgroups: papers and audio recordings. The papers subgroup includes four series. It includes adminstrative information about WOBC and program guides. There is a small group of non-textual materials, including photographs. The audio recordings subgroup consists mostly of reel-to-reel tapes from the 1960s through 1990s.
Dates:
1942-2011, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/08/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Edwards and Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-219
Scope and Contents
The papers of William Edwards Stevenson (1900-85) and his wife Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson (1902-87) document the joint public service careers of the Stevensons over a period of forty-five years. Correspondence with their families (1917-25) and with each other (1924-25), as well as genealogical records such as diaries, wills, and marriage certificates, bring to light the privileged New England childhoods and family relationships which fostered their social ideals. The arrangement of the...
Dates:
1809 - 1987; Majority of material found in 1917-1925, 1942-85; Other: Date acquired: 1979 October 4
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-162
Scope and Contents
Material at the Oberlin College Archives (Accession 1983/41)
The material given to the Oberlin College Archives consists of clippings, programs, writings by and about William Grant Still and Verna Arvey, a book of Still’s music, press kits and publicity for the opera “A Bayou Legend,” photographs, a copy of an oral history with William Grant Still for the California Black Oral History Project at California State University, Fullerton in 1967, and...
Dates:
1921 - 1995; Other: Date acquired: 1983 October 28
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives