Oral History Commons^™

Arnold Potter, Arnold Potter

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Mrs. Barnett Shur (Clarice), Clarice Belle Shur

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Gerald Boxstein, Gerald Boxstein

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Mrs. Meyer Lerman (Ethel), Ethel Arline Lerman

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Dr. Benjamen Zolov, Benjamen Zolov

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Maurice Rubinoff, Maurice Rubinoff

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Sumner Bernstein, Sumner Bernstein

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Julius Elowitch, Julius Elowitch

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Israel Silverman (Dean), Israel Dean Silverman

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Bertram Silverman, Bertram H. Silverman

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Julius Greenstein, Julius Greenstein

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Jules Krems, Jules Krems

Portraits of the Past: The Jews of Portland

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1767, Christina Paredes

Combined Interviews

In 1924, Christina Paredes worked at Farah for 35 years in San Antonio St. Christina recalls the work environment not being all positive during her years at Farah. Christina mentions that they were strict with hiring people and the process like taking their birth certificate; you had to be 17 or 18 years old and could not be older than that or else they would not hire them. Christina also said that they would encourage people to bring their families and work as well.

Christina Paredes then goes on and talks about people she remembers, like her friend Carmen who …

Vanwyk, Gordon J And Bertha V Oral History Interview: Old China Hands Oral History Project, Julie Van Wyk

Old China Hands Oral History Project

This project was made possible by a grant from the Youthgrants 1n the Humanities Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Federal agency established by Congress to promote research, education,and public activity in the humanities.

Interview No. 646, Arthur Adams

Combined Interviews

Experiences as a Border Patrol agent,1948-1957; working with Chinese illegal

aliens, 1950s; experiences with the U.S. Customs Service .

Interview No. 1760, Parra

Combined Interviews

Parra started working at Farah in the Spring of 1968, she then quit for two years and came back in 1969. She decided to go back because his son wanted to go to college and Parra wanted to support him monetarily. After a couple of years, she started to get tired of the continuous bad treatment, soon after the strike began.

As soon as she started to work for Farah, she noticed the different and superior type of treatment each worker received. Parra remembers some of the workers would go out with managers to try and get a raise. She …

Brown Tucker Interview - Part 1 (Calloway County), Calloway County, Kentucky, Brown C. Tucker, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Oral History Collection

An interview with Brown Tucker of Murray, Kentucky by Robert M. Rennick on the origin and history of community names of Calloway County, Kentucky.

Interview No. 609, Richard Ross

Combined Interviews

Join the Marine Corps and due to accident was discharged honorably in Houston. He has dedicated most of his time doing sketches. He especially finds pleasure doing so in Mexico, do to the typical decorations and customs. he relates his experiences in an encampment in Mexico.

Stielstra, Jennie Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Don Van Reken

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Oltman, Theodore V And Helen Oral History Interview: Old China Hands Oral History Project, Julie Van Wyk

Old China Hands Oral History Project

This project was made possible by a grant from the Youthgrants 1n the Humanities Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Federal agency established by Congress to promote research, education,and public activity in the humanities.

Bulthuis, Klaas Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Don Van Reken

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1748, Gisela Avalos

Combined Interviews

Her name is Gisela Avalos and she was fighting in the strike in May 9th. She says that they were fighting for their rights that she knew they were violating them. She also mentions that she had a husband in that time and he accepted to leave her because she needed to become a new person. She says that at the beginning they wouldn’t so anything about the company violating their rights, but they got tired and they went to the union to protest for women rights, but many men won’t listen to them and that had to be change. …

Floyd Lewis Oral History Interview: Polar Bear Oral History Project Ii, Deborah A. Lenning

Polar Bear Oral History Project

Records of an oral history project done with veterans of the American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, 1918-1919 (“Polar Bears”). The collection also contains general background materials pertaining to the Polar Bears. Includes interview transcripts, cassette tapes, articles, bibliographies, diaries, clippings, photographs, microfilm and a book. Accession No.: H88-0239.5 Provenance: Polar Bear Oral History Project Donor: Hope College History Department Photographs: 24 images Processed by: Craig Wright, February 1991 Catherine Jung, April 2007

James Siplon Oral History Interview: Polar Bear Oral History Project, Nancy L. Johnson

Polar Bear Oral History Project

Records of an oral history project done with veterans of the American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, 1918-1919 (“Polar Bears”). The collection also contains general background materials pertaining to the Polar Bears. Includes interview transcripts, cassette tapes, articles, bibliographies, diaries, clippings, photographs, microfilm and a book. Accession No.: H88-0239.5 Provenance: Polar Bear Oral History Project Donor: Hope College History Department Photographs: 24 images Processed by: Craig Wright, February 1991 Catherine Jung, April 2007

Vanderbush, Alvin W Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Nancy Swinyard

Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College

These records include the transcripts of oral histories conducted with retired faculty members of Hope College.

Muilenburg, John And Virginia Oral History Interview: Old China Hands Oral History Project, Julie Van Wyk

Old China Hands Oral History Project

This project was made possible by a grant from the Youthgrants 1n the Humanities Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Federal agency established by Congress to promote research, education,and public activity in the humanities.

“They Made Us Dance In The Pig Trough!” Mrs. Blanche Story’S Oral Accounts Of Dating, Courtship, Marriage And Sexual Attitudes In Northcentral Nebraska, 1885-1910, Gayle Waggoner

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Oral recollections concerning dating, courtship, marriage and related attitudes were collected from a single informant, Mrs. Blanche Story of Butte, Nebraska. Through in-depth questioning during twelve tape-recorded interview sessions, value- and attitude-oriented accounts were secured for the years 1885 to 1910, the late frontier period in northcentral Nebraska. These detailed reminiscences focus on common life experiences related to interpersonal relationships and the institutions related to them, resulting in a personal or folk history. The single greatest problem in research was the lack of documentation for the attitudinal content of the texts. Corroboration of both specific information and broad patterns of …

Talman, Rose Oral History Interview: Old China Hands Oral History Project, Hope College

Old China Hands Oral History Project

This project was made possible by a grant from the Youthgrants 1n the Humanities Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Federal agency established by Congress to promote research, education,and public activity in the humanities.

Interview No. 304, Kenneth Flynn

Combined Interviews

Views on problems of the border; the work of Project Bravo; uniqueness of Ciudad Juárez / El Paso; non-Mexican American ethnic groups in El Paso.

Interview No. 287.3, Organization Of U. S. Border Cities (Ousbc)

Combined Interviews

Proceedings of meeting held in Las Cruces, New Mexico.