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Alachua Portrait Gainesville, Florida, United States. Interviews that relate to Alachua County, FL. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
American Jewish Historical Society Gainesville, Florida, United States. Oral history interviews with members of the American Jewish Historical Society. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Bellamy Road Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Brevard County Historical Commission Oral History Project Cocoa, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Civil Rights/St. Augustine Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Civilian Conservation Corps Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes a series of interviews with Civilian Conservation Corps members who talk about their experiences in the CCC during the dark days of the Depression. All the interviewees talk about the pride they had in working with the CCC as eighteen-year-olds, and how the experience helped them grow and mature. All were from large families and the $25 a month they were required to send home was often the difference between survival and starvation. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Confederate Veterans Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Coral Gables Oral History Interview Video Recordings Tallahassee, Florida, United States. The City of Coral Gables Cable TV Division (CGTV) produced this series of oral history interviews with long-time city residents and city officials to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the city's incorporation in 1925. Summary: This collections consists of videotaped oral history interviews with long-time Coral Gables residents and city officials. Topics addressed include life in early Coral Gables; development of city government; relations between the city and the University of Miami; building of roads and subdivisions and development of neighborhoods; economic development; and segregation and the civil rights and women's rights movements. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Creek Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Oral history interviews with Native Americans. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doak Sheridan Campbell Collection Tallahassee, Florida, United States. The eleven interviews in this group were collected by William Oliver, Jr. in 1975 for his dissertation on Doak Campbell. Oliver's choice of interviewees and questions reflects an obvious slant in Campbell's favor, but there is some useful information. The collection includes interviews with Campbell's widow, Edna, his son, Doak S., Jr., and grandson, Doak S., III. Outside of the family, those interviewed include Mode Stone, Dorothy Hoffman, LeRoy Collins, Millard Caldwell, Malcolm Johnson, Alice Chambers, Milton W. Carothers and Myron Blee. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doris Duke Catawba Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doris Duke Cherokee Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doris Duke Choctaw Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doris Duke Lumbee Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doris Duke Mississippi Choctaw Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Doris Duke Seminoles Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. The Seminole project incorporates more than 200 interviews from the 1970s into a publication. This endeavor is being supported by the University Press of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The following references constitute a small sample of the entire collection. Please note they are excerpts from transcripts rather than abstracts. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details] [4 interview(s) listed in this collection]
Doris Duke Urban Lumbee Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. Part of the Doris Duke American Indian Collection [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Educator's Oral History Collection Orlando, Florida, United States. This collection contains oral history interviews with former and current educators in the Central Florida area. The interviews are recorded on sixty-minute audiocassettes. Two interviews were also videotaped. In the interviews, the educators discuss their experiences in the education profession and their views on school vouchers, curriculum, and integration, among other topics. Interviews were conducted by graduate students in the College of Education as part of a class assignment for the educational studies graduate program. All interviews include a signed release form. Many of the interviews also include an interview summary and/or partial transcript of the interview. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Everglades Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes a series of interviews regarding the Florida Everglades Restoration. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Bicentennial Commission Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Blacks Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Business Leaders Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes a series of interviews with Florida Business Leaders. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Constitutional Revision Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Fisher Folk Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Governor Oral History Program Files Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Governor Bob Graham inaugurated his Oral History Program on May 20, 1980 with a dinner at the Governor's Mansion honoring the late State Senator Verle A. Pope of St. Augustine. The purpose of this event and those that would follow in succeeding years was for family, friends, and contemporaries of the honored guest to record the observations on and experiences with that person for preservation in the State Archives. Distinguished guests from Florida politics, business, or academia spoke during the dinners about the honoree, and after the dinner all of the guests recorded their reminiscences at recording stations throughout the Mansion. Summary: The collection contains records relating to the four Oral History Programs between 1980 and 1984. Included are program activity files, transcripts of the dinner program and interviews, and in some cases audiotape recordings of the dinner program and interviews. The subjects for the programs were 1) Verle A. Pope, State Senator from St. Augustine, president of State Senate (1966-1968); 2) Spessard L. Holland, Governor of Florida (1941-1945) and United States Senator (1946-1971); 3) W. Glenn Terrell, Florida Supreme Court Justice (1923-1964) and Chief Justice (1929-1931; 1938-1941; 1957-1959) and 4) Nelson Poynter, owner and editor of the St. Petersburg Times. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Growth Management Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes a series of interviews regarding Florida Growth Management. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Highway Patrol Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Newspapers Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes interviews with persons related to Florida Newspapers. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Politics Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes a series of interviews with Florida Politicians. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Republicans Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Retirement Communities Collection Tallahassee, Florida, United States. These interviews were conducted by Christopher Linsen during research for his doctoral dissertation on the social aspects of particular retirement centers in Florida. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Florida Teachers' Strike Collection Tallahassee, Florida, United States. These interviews were conducted between 1995 and 1997 as research for Michael Makowsky's doctoral dissertation. Makowsky interviewed labor leaders and members of the Florida Education Association, the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers regarding the threatened and actual teachers' strike that occurred in Florida in the late 1960's. These twelve interviews are with George Auzanne, Larry Sorenson, Rodney Davis, Roger Stephon, John Ryor, Wade Hopping, Carl Harner, Don Cameron, Jim Gieger, Claudia Edwards, Ray Edwards, and Rick Willis. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
History of Florida Citrus Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
History of Jewish Community - Salvador Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc. Oral History Collection North Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Since the first interviews in 1980, the Center has achieved recognition and acclaim for the largest, self-produced, standardized collection of Holocaust testimony in the country.
To date, the Center's volunteer interviewers have conducted almost 2,000 interviews. Licensed copies of these oral histories are currently housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as well as at the Center. These testimonies will also be made available to 7,000 colleges and universities throughout the United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Ione Wright Pan Am Pacific Exploration Oral History Collection Coral Gables, Florida, United States. This audio tape collection was donated to the library by the family of historian Ione Wright. Before her death, Dr. Wright planned to write a history of Pan Am's role in establishing the Pacific airplane routes in the 1930s and 40s. Although she never completed the book, she conducted over 40 interviews with the pilots and Pan Am employees involved in this venture. These interviews survive in our collection and are inventoried below. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Kennedy Space Center Oral History Program Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. To capture the history of individuals who served the Nation’s space program at the Kennedy Space Center, gateway to space for all of America's human space flights and many of its payloads on expendable launch vehicles. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Macon Community Collection Tallahassee, Florida, United States. These interviews outline life in a North Florida black community, pre-1950. Interviews by Jennifer Opager with residents of Macon Community, an old-time Tallahassee neighborhood bounded by Meginnis Arm on the west and Meridian Road on the east. To the north and south it went beyond Lakeshore Drive and Henderson Road, respectively. Annie Mae Macon, Annie V. Brown, James R. Ford, Fred Hunter, Sr., Ruby Davis, and Naomi Randolph contributed to the interviews. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Mexico Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Miller Enterprises Collection Tallahassee, Florida, United States. These seven interviews were conducted with members of the George Miller, Jr. family of Crescent City, Florida. Miller, his mother and father, his brothers and sisters, and his six children were all involved in the development of Miller Enterprises, Inc., a conglomerate of supermarkets and convenience stores in the Florida counties of Putnam, Seminole, Orange, Marion, Lake, Bradford, Clay and Volusia. The family history is closely connected with the history of Crescent City and Putnam County, Florida. The interviews were used as source material for Family, Community, Business Enterprise: The Millers of Crescent City, Florida by Edward F. Keuchel and Robin J. Sellers. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Milton W. and Julia Carothers Collection Tallahassee, Florida, United States. This collection contains twenty-one interviews collected since 1984 by the Reverend Milton Stover Carothers, Director of the Presbyterian University Center, with and about his parents. Milton W. Carothers served Florida State College for Women and Florida State University as Registrar, Director of the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida, FSU vice president, acting president when Robert Strozier died unexpectedly, and Dean of Graduate Studies. Among those interviewed were Dr. and Julia Carothers, J. Broward and Betty Culpepper, Daisy and Claude Flory, LeRoy Collins, Angus Laird, Miriam Wilson, Katherine [Kitty] Hoffman, Mary Williams, Joe Hiett, Davis and Virginia Thomas, Alice Chambers, Annie and Claude Andrews, John and Mary Champion, Stanley Marshall, Clifford Madsden, Michael Kasha (brief reflections), and Bernie Sliger. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Nantucket Preservation Board Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Oklahoma Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Oral Histories of Winter Park Residents Winter Park, Florida, United States. The Oral History Collection of the Winter Park Public Library is composed of taped interviews with Winter Park citizens who gave first-hand accounts of some aspect of Winter Park history which would otherwise go unrecorded. This collection supplements and enhances the other collections held in the Winter Park Public Library History and Archives Department. There are currently 35 tapes in this collection. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details] [3 interview(s) listed in this collection]
Oral History Museum Oral History Collection Fernandina Beach, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Overton Community Coral Gables, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Park Trammell Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, United States. Another group covers the Pensacola Naval Air Station, 1914-1919; these include Lelia Abercrombie, T. T. Wentworth, Harry Carlson, Julian O. Olsen, and A. F. Forster. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Pensacola Police Department Pensacola, Florida, United States. A number of oral histories discuss the Pensacola police department and crime in Pensacola, 1912-1915; narrators include Moses Penton (Pensacola Police Chief, 1923; Escambia County Sheriff, 1924-1934); Daisy McAllaster on the role of women in police work; Francis W. Taylor; and Thomas Bowen, who also discusses the fire department. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Ray Washington Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Reel to Reel Tapes Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Sound Archives Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
South Miami Community Oral History Coral Gables, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Suwannee River Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, United States. Interviews with UF staff [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Florida Athletics Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes interviews with UF athletes and coaches. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Florida College of Nursing Gainesville, Florida, United States. This project includes interviews with founding or early members of the College of Nursing and those who were associated with the college around its early beginnings. In a post WWII Quonset Hut in 1956, Dean Dorothy Smith dreamed of educating nurses in an academic setting and graduating future nurses who could deliver humanistic and intelligent care. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Florida Health Center Gainesville, Florida, United States. We are interviewing persons who played major roles in the establishment and development of the J. Hillis Miller Health Center and College of Medicine at the University of Florida. With a grant from Dr. Tom V. Harris, Assistant Vice-President for Health Affairs, we are now working with Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig on another series of interviews. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Florida Law College Gainesville, Florida, United States. Many former deans, faculty, administrators, and students have been interviewed for this project. The College of Law plans to write a history and will utilize this oral history collection for its data. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Florida Miscellaneous Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of Miami 60th Anniversary Collection Coral Gables, Florida, United States. This collection of interviews, conducted by the Office of Student Affairs in 1986, was used to produce Sixty Years of Achievement, a documentary film celebrating the University of Miami's 60th Anniversary. The tapes contain over sixty hours of footage that do not appear in the documentary, and cover topics as disparate as the founding of the university, campus life during the 1920s, WWII, and student activism during the turbulent 1960s and early 70s. Many of the interviews move beyond campus concerns, using the University as a window to understanding South Florida's history more broadly. Dennis Gaffney, a former University of Miami Office of Student Affairs employee, conducted most of the interviews. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
University of West Florida Oral History Interviews Pensacola, Florida, United States. Other narrators include W. F. Hill, C. E. Abbott, W. N. Olson, N. O. Anderson, E. Anderson, T. S. Kennedy, Randolph Reedy, Sidney Powell, Ernest L. Madsen, and Blanch McMillan Smith of Chipley, Florida. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Video Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Virginia Indians Indian Collection Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Wainwright Shipyard: The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City, Florida Tallahassee, Florida, United States. These interviews were conducted in 1992 as research for Peggy D. Pelt's doctoral dissertation, "Wainwright Shipyard: The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City, Florida." The eleven interviews in this collection are with civilian employees of the shipyard: Zema Cowan, Opal Reaver, Ruth Smeby, Mary Darr, Earle Boone, Millie Nauman, H. Mack Lewis, Mozelle Kasiah, Fannie Hutchinson, Runnell Poston, and "Bubber" Nelson. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
WRUF Gainesville, Florida, United States. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
