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Swarthmore College Oral History Project

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 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:
RG6.X.OH-1
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
3 linear ft. (8 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Swarthmore College Archives, Swarthmore College Oral History Project, RG6-X-OH-2, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1982-1983 (inclusive)
Creator:
Oboler, Regina Smith, 1947-
Form:
Oral histories
Abstract:
The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted with more than 50 current and former Swarthmore College faculty, staff, and students, conducted by Regina Smith Oboler from 1982-1983.

The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted with more than 50 current and former Swarthmore College faculty, staff, and students, conducted by Regina Smith Oboler from 1982-1983. There are transcripts for most of the interviews.

Boxes 1-3: Transcripts, arranged alphabetically by interviewee.

Boxes 4-6: Audiocassette recordings, arranged alphabetically by interviewee.

Box 7: Confidential sections (audiocassette recordings and transcripts).

Box 8: contains Oboler's project files.

The recordings are on audiocassettes and can only be accessed if an audiocassette player is available or if the requestor pays for the cassette(s) to be digitized, at the discretion of the Friends Historical Library Curator depending on the fragility of the particular tapes in question.

Stapleton interviews about Courtney Smith, SFHL-RG6-X-OH-2

Organization

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2019
Access Restrictions

Most of the transcripts in this collection are available for researchers to consult. Portions that interviewees indicated at the time were "confidential" or "off the record" were excised by Oboler and stored separately. These confidential portions may only be consulted at the discretion of the current Friends Historical Library Curator.

Use Restrictions

Note that release forms were received from most, but not all, interviewees, as indicated in the finding aid.

Collection Inventory

Project files.
Scope and Contents

Includes: Completed release forms, Correspondence, Reports to Oral History Committee, Working notes and summaries of interviews, Background research notes, Photocopies of selected articles from The Phoenix, and Outline of talk to Alumni Council

Barnard, Boyd, 1983-03-03-1983-03-09.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 44 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Blanshard, Brand, 1983-11-01.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 40 pages and its status is: final copy returned with corrections, retyping completed.

Booth, Isabel Jenkins, 1982-04-29.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Brinkmann, Heinrich, 1982-07-22.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 41 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Brodhead, Alice, 1982-07-27.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 55 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Chill, Polly Pinsker, 1982-10-29.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 21 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Clarke, Eleanor Stabler, 1982-04-29.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 44 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Connor, Martha, 1982-05-11.
Scope and Contents

See Rhys, Hedley audiocassette tape(s)

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 61 pages and its status is: see Rhys, Hedley.

Cowden, David, 1983-01-13.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 33 pages and its status is: not corrected before he died.

Elverson, Lewis H., 1983-01-28.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 52 pages and its status is: typed, not corrected.

Field, James, 1982-12-09.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 48 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Flexner, Eleanor, 1983-11-02.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 25 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Gilbert, Charles, 1982-10-05-1982-10-27.
Scope and Contents

3 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 68 pages and its status is: typed, not corrected.

Gleitman, Henry, 1983-10-03.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 24 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Godfrey, Barbara Pearson Lange, 1982-03-25.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 70 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Heald, Mark, 1983-03-02.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 54 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Henry, Patrick, 1983-11-15-1983-11-29.
Scope and Contents

3 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 58 pages and its status is: returned with minor corrections, retype?.

Hunt, Everett, 1982-03-15.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 30 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Hynes, Samuel, 1983-02-03.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Keighton, Eleanor, 1983-04-21-1983-06-01.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 41 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Kerr, Clark, 1982-12-03.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 23 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Klees, Fredric, 1982-04-15.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 32 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Legesse, Asmarom, 1982-09-22-1982-09-30.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Malin, Caroline Biddle, 1983-03-17.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 33 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Mangelsdorf, Paul, 1982-09-16.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 42 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Meinkoth, Norman, 1982-07-29.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 57 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Miller, Grace, 1982-05-11.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s). see R. Spotswood Pollart and Robert Wilson

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 52 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Moore, John, 1982-04-08.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 48 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Morrill, Bernard, 1982-07-20.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 49 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Nason, John, 1983-04-30.
Scope and Contents

3 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 49 pages and its status is: finish proofreading final copy-done to p.20.

North, Helen, 1982-10-13.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 52 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Pennock, J. Roland, 1982-03-08.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 38 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Philips, Edith, 1982-05-05.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 40 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Perkins, James, 1982-06-04.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 17 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Perkins, Jean, 1983-10-19.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 57 pages and its status is: returned with minor corrections, retype?.

Pierson, Frank, 1982-04-16.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 27 pages and its status is: final copy returned with corrections, retyping completed.

Pollard, R. Spotswood, 1982-05-11.
Scope and Contents

See Miller, Grace audiocassette tape(s).

Prentice, William, 1982-09-24.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 32 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Reiner, Thomas, 1983-01-12.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 16 pages and its status is: typed, not corrected.

Rhys, Hedley, 1982-05-11.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s). see Martha Connor

Rubin, Daniel, 1982-10-29.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 25 pages and its status is: typed, not corrected.

Shane, Terry, 1983-04-14.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 28 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Smith, Claude, 1982-03-30-1982-04-15.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 32 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Sorber, James D., 1982-04-29.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 34 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Spiller, Robert, 1983-12-05.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 43 pages and its status is: returned with minor corrections, retype?.

Stetson, Willis J., 1983-03-16.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 44 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Stott, Gilmore, 1983-02-02.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Swing, Peter, 1982-10-20.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 38 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

Urban, Linwood, 1983-04-15-1983-04-21.
Scope and Contents

3 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 60 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Van de Kamp, Peter, 1982-04-27.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 26 pages and its status is: final corrected copy.

Wallach, Hans, 1982-10-06.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 36 pages and its status is: proofread final copy.

White, Edith, 1982-05-05.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Wilson, Robert, 1982-05-11.
Scope and Contents

See Miller, Grace audiocassette tape(s).

Williams, Howard, 1982-11-18.
Scope and Contents

2 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 43 pages and its status is: not corrected before he died.

Worth, Helen, 1982-04-30.
Scope and Contents

1 audiocassette tape(s).

Existence and Location of Copies

A transcript exists for this recording. The transcript is 30 pages and its status is: typed, not corrected.

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