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Black Sport in Pittsburgh
(Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection),
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
Black Sport in Pittsburgh, 54 interviews conducted by Rob Ruck with individuals involved in Black sports activities in and around Pittsburgh.
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(Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection),
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
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Black Sport in Pittsburgh, 54 interviews conducted by Rob Ruck with individuals involved in Black sports activities in and around Pittsburgh.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection
Topic / Theme
Entertaining, Ethnic groups
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Discovering Community History Project: Oral Interviews Collection
Collection was created by the accumulation 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,...
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Collection was created by the accumulation 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 19...
Collection was created by the accumulation 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.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Temple University. Paley Library. Urban Archives
Topic / Theme
Economics, Immigration and emigration, Ethnic groups
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Homestead Album Oral History Project
(Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection),
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
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(Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection),
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
Source: www.library.pitt.edu
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection
Topic / Theme
Life styles
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Independence National Historical Park Project
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
The story of the Independence Hall Association from 1942 and the development of Independence National Historical Park are recounted by those who played the major parts. Accounts of the ensuing urban redevelopment, and of historical preservation and restoration in Philadelphia explore the legal, financial, architec...
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
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The story of the Independence Hall Association from 1942 and the development of Independence National Historical Park are recounted by those who played the major parts. Accounts of the ensuing urban redevelopment, and of historical preservation and restoration in Philadelphia explore the legal, financial, architectural, and procedural problems and how they were surmounted. Park historians and superintendents describe the role of the National Park...
The story of the Independence Hall Association from 1942 and the development of Independence National Historical Park are recounted by those who played the major parts. Accounts of the ensuing urban redevelopment, and of historical preservation and restoration in Philadelphia explore the legal, financial, architectural, and procedural problems and how they were surmounted. Park historians and superintendents describe the role of the National Park Service. 574 pp.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
Topic / Theme
Environment, Public parks
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Lois Fernandez
Oral history conducted by the Head of the Urban Archives. Ms. Fernandez is a community activist, entrepreneur and co-founder of ODUNDE. Initiated in 1979, ODUNDE is the oldest continuously running African-American community festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interview conducted between December 8-10, 1999.
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Oral history conducted by the Head of the Urban Archives. Ms. Fernandez is a community activist, entrepreneur and co-founder of ODUNDE. Initiated in 1979, ODUNDE is the oldest continuously running African-American community festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interview conducted between December 8-10, 1999.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Temple University. Paley Library. Urban Archives
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups, Geography
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Lumber Rafting Oral History Collection, 1873-1975
The Lumber Rafting Oral History Collection documents the timber industry in North Central Pennsylvania, primarily between 1885-1940. The collection consists of sixty interviews, an article from the Harrisburg Patriot, a list of boat scaffolds in Clarion, and a film entitled The Last Raft, documenting the historica...
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The Lumber Rafting Oral History Collection documents the timber industry in North Central Pennsylvania, primarily between 1885-1940. The collection consists of sixty interviews, an article from the Harrisburg Patriot, a list of boat scaffolds in Clarion, and a film entitled The Last Raft, documenting the historical recreation of the last lumber raft, 1939.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University
Topic / Theme
Economics, Labor force
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, United States
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Myer and Rosaline Geinstein Center for American Jewish History Collection
Oral histories of Jewish people who live or where raised in the Philadelphia or surrounding areas. Interviews started in 1996.
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Oral histories of Jewish people who live or where raised in the Philadelphia or surrounding areas. Interviews started in 1996.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Temple University. Paley Library. Urban Archives
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section I
(Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection),
Source: exhibit.library.pitt.edu
Source: exhibit.library.pitt.edu
Oral History Project #1, 1968-1975, records the immigrant experience of European-born Jews arriving in the United States between 1890-1920 and settling in Pittsburgh.
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(Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection),
Source: exhibit.library.pitt.edu
Source: exhibit.library.pitt.edu
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Oral History Project #1, 1968-1975, records the immigrant experience of European-born Jews arriving in the United States between 1890-1920 and settling in Pittsburgh.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center. Oral History Collection
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Oral History of the Public School Principalship
The Oral History of the Public School Principalship is an ongoing project designed to interview retired elementary, middle, and high school principals for their views, reminiscences, and accumulated wisdom. Most of the interviewees are from the Southeast (mainly Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, District of Colu...
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The Oral History of the Public School Principalship is an ongoing project designed to interview retired elementary, middle, and high school principals for their views, reminiscences, and accumulated wisdom. Most of the interviewees are from the Southeast (mainly Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, District of Columbia, and West Virginia), with representative materials from Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA
Topic / Theme
Education
Place Discussed
Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Vir...
Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Vir...
Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Vir...
Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland (U.S.), North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Philadelphia General Hospital Oral History Project
Interviews were conducted under the auspices of the PGH History Task Force. Interviewees were all employees of the Hospital which closed in 1977.
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Interviews were conducted under the auspices of the PGH History Task Force. Interviewees were all employees of the Hospital which closed in 1977.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
Temple University. Paley Library. Urban Archives
Topic / Theme
Health
Place Discussed
North America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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