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Oral histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Broadcasting Services records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Broadcasting Services, WKAR-TV, WMSB, and WKAR AM/FM. Included are programming guides, meeting minutes, Federal Communications Commission channel hearings, and photographic materials. The Electronic Resources include digitized University Distinguished Professor videos from 2005 and 2007; a video of oral history interviews titled "Out of the Fields"; audio recordings of interviews of survivors and veterans of World War II living in...
Dates: 1920 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Clarence H. Suelter collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.227
Scope and Contents The collection contains information about different science programs at Michigan State University compiled by Suelter. Some of the materials are photocopies. There is substantial information relating to Robert C. Kedzie, as well as historical overviews of many natural science programs. Also included are an exhibit catalog for Sesquicentennial Celebration: The Natural Sciences at Michigan State University, 1855-2005 which Suelter created and ...
Dates: 1876 - 2014
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Great Depression Oral History Project records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00709
Dates: 1980, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Juan Marinez papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 398 large
Scope and Contents

This collection includes reports, documents, audio and visual material collected by Marinez in his role as an MSU Extension program director. Also included in this collection are oral history interviews in the Michigan Mexican American Lives oral history project.

Dates: 1977 - 2010
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Julian Samora Research Institute records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-23.14
Scope and Contents The Julian Samora Research Institute records contain Communica Horizons newsletters about the Mexico-United States Consortium for Academic Cooperation. In addition to these there are flyers advertising lectures, "Making News for Midwest Latinos" a collection of newspaper clippings pertaining to Latino life in the Midwest, as well as the paper "Life in the Industrial Heartland" by Anne Santiago. Included in the Electronic Resources series...
Dates: 1989, 1999, 2015
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Leonard Freed South African elections photography collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 655
Scope and Contents This collection primarily represents 140 vintage photographic prints, printed in 1994 by Leonard Freed and signed by the photographer. The 140 prints represent prints chosen by Freed to print from his trip to South Africa in early 1994. The collection also includes two Magnum Photos prints from the same trip, and two Magnum Photos prints of a ticker tape parade held in NYC for Mandela's visit in 1990. Additional documentation in this collection includes material from an exhibition of thirty...
Dates: 1990 - 1994
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

LGBT Activists and Their Lives oral history project

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 792
Scope and Contents The LGBT Activists and Their Lives Oral History Project consist of approximately 1 linear feet of material from 2004. The collection includes video interviews and transcripts conducted by students from Eastern Michigan University under the supervision of Dr. Margot I. Duley.Documents were kept in the order they were originally arranged, including documentation related to the project. Interview summaries and transcripts were kept in alphabetical order. Video interviews in CDs will...
Dates: 2004
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Maurice Crane papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.346
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, documents from the Vincent Voice Library, Maurice Crane's teaching notes and cassette tapes for classes he taught, photographs, newspaper clippings, and publications. The cassette tapes contain speeches of famous people and events.

Also in the collection are materials related to the Geriatric Six Plus One band, such as newspaper clippings, flyers/announcements, and photographs.

Dates: 1955 - 1999
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

MSU 125th Anniversary Oral History Project records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.3.5
Scope and Content

The collection is arranged into six series. They are Transcripts; Restricted Drafts, Duplicate Copies, Research Accomplishments, Project Committee Records, and Reel to Reel Audio tapes.

Dates: 1978 - 1979
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert F. Crawford papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.402
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a copy of "Generation X, The Hopes and Dreams of College Students," by Bob Crawford, as well as photographs taken of the interviewees by Crawford.

Dates: 1988 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections