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Discovering Community History Project Oral Histories

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
SCRC 284
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
1.5 linear feet (4 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Discovering Community History Project Oral Histories, SCRC 284, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1969-1979 (inclusive)
Form:
Audiocassettes, Manuscripts, Oral histories, and Sound recordings
Abstract:

This collection contains 42 interviews, 6 of which have been transcribed. The collection was created by the culmination of individual interviews conducted by Temple University graduate and senior students for dissertation or course purposes and for the Discovering Community History Project. The collection deals with the Philadelphia area during 1900-1970 and includes the topics of housing, education, politics, social welfare, labor unions, Jews, immigrants, and some local neighborhoods. Interviews were conducted during 1969-1979. The Whitman meeting includes interviews with Mary Boucher, Irene Collins, Frank Knowlton, and Joseph Rementer.

Gift of the Discovering Community History Program through Charles Hardy, July 1980.

Original audiovisual materials, as well as preservation and duplicating masters, may not be played. Researchers must consult use copies, or if none exist must pay for a use copy. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.

Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in August 2015. Finding aid revised to reflect survey information in June 2017 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services. Box inventory updated to include box numbers in September 2023, by Courtney Smerz, Collection Management Archivist.

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Publisher
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Finding Aid Author
Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
Finding Aid Date
August 2024
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Discovering Community History Project Oral Histories is the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

Barkas, Benjamin (labor education), 1971.
Box 2 Folder T-26a-c
Becker, Rev. Joseph (education).
Box 1 Folder T-14
Brosilow, Samuel (labor union), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-24
Bubba, Olivia M. (immigrant experience), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-22
Burns, William (Haddington), undated.
Box 3 Folder T-34
Caplan, Adolph (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-6
Cavanaugh, Ann Ryder (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-12
Cheston, Emily Fox (housing), 1969.
Box 1 Folder T-1
Cottler, Elizabeth and Joseph (unions and education), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-27
Covey, (Mrs.) (Whitman), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-42
Dilworth, Richardson (history and government), 1973.
Box 3 Folder T-31
Dingle, Arthur (Haddington), undated.
Box 3 Folder T-37
Gentner, Frederick W. (education).
Box 1 Folder T-11
Hamilton, John (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-13
Hoffner, Tom (Whitman), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-43
Horr, Morris (education), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-16
Horr, Myndel (education), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-17
Jacobs, Morris (Whitman), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-39
Jason, William (Haddington), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-35
Kayser, Henrietta (Fishtown, Lutheran Settlement), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-30
Kelly, John B. and others, speeches, 1935, 1937.
Box 1 Folder T-5
Lieberman, Stanley (education), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-18
Lisan, Jacob (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-10
Lousinian, Varsen (labor union), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-25
MacWilliams, Viola (Whitman), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-44
Mann, Kay (Whitman), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-38
McEntee, Marie (education), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-20
Montgomery, Dorothy Schoell (housing), 1969.
Box 1 Folder T-3
Nearing, Scott (social welfare), 1969.
Box 1 Folder T-2
O'Keefe, Mary (Fishtown, Lutheran Settlement Center), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-29
Osser, Maurice S. (politics), 1970.
Box 1 Folder T-4
Polis, Harold (education), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-19
Rich, Suzie (Haddington), undated.
Box 3 Folder T-33
Riegel, Marguerite L. (Germantown Community Council/Germantown High School), undated.
Box 2 Folder T-21
Rugg, Martin (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-8
Schumate, Marie (Haddington), undated.
Box 3 Folder T-32
Shepard, James (Haddington), undated.
Box 3 Folder T-36
Silbert, Rose (Jews, Fishtown), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-28
Trainer, Bill; Whalen, Tom (Whitman), 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-40
Tucker, Benjamin (labor union), 1975.
Box 2 Folder T-23
Wachs, Isadore (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-9
Weinhouse, Adele Klein (education), 1974.
Box 1 Folder T-7
Wexler, Elias (education), 1974.
Box 2 Folder T-15
Whitman Meeting, 1979.
Box 3 Folder T-41
Interview forms and indexes to recordings: T-1 to T-21, undated.
Box 4 Folder 1
Interview forms and indexes to recordings: T-22 to T-42, undated.
Box 4 Folder 2

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