| Collection Name: |
Louisiana State University Miscellaneous Series |
| Repository Name: |
Louisiana State University. T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/collections/miscseries.html |
| Dates Spanned: |
1968- |
| Description: |
Mostly biographical or local history interviews, contributed by individuals not affiliated with LSU, or by LSU faculty and students; some conducted by Williams Center staff under contract for interviewees' families. Among the topics covered, in addition to general family history and genealogy, are the insurance industry; Leni Riefenstahl, documentary film maker for Nazi Germany; Louisiana folkcrafts; Southern Association for Women Historians; the public health facility for Hansen's disease at Carville, Louisiana; President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his relationship with the press; WPA art projects in Louisiana; the New Llano Socialist Colony near Leesville, Louisiana; Jewish immigration to Louisiana; the Louisiana forestry industry; Baton Rouge blues musicians; the Baton Rouge Zoo; Louisiana fisheries; Civil War diarist Clara Solomon; hurricanes; faith healers; and architecture. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
107 |
| Broad Subjects: |
Domestic life; Education; Wars and Conflicts |
| ASP Subjects: |
Architecture; Baton Rouge, LA; College administrators; College students; College teachers; Emigration and immigration; Family--History; Fishing; Forests and forestry; History; Insurance; Local history; Louisiana; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; Louisiana--History; Motion picture industry; Music; Musicians; Oral history; U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865; United States; Universities and colleges; Universities and colleges--Departments; World War I, 1914-1918; World War II, 1939-1945 |
| Other Subjects: |
Blues; Clara Solomon; Faith healers; Hurricains; WPA art projects |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000267 |
