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Oral Histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Brown

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346048]
Identifier: MSS 2899
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Brown was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Brown was a child during the Civil War and relates stories she heard from her mother. Brown makes references to slave women giving birth while working in the fields, whippings of pregnant slaves, and witchcraft. Brown gave birth to 16 children in 16...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Mary A. Hicks interview with Mattie Curtis

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346154]
Identifier: MSS 2895
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Curtis was interviewed by Mary Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Curtis describes how badly she was treated by various owners. She was not given clothes until she was fourteen years of age, and her life was threatened at times. She explains that "yeller gals" were kept in a different slave quarter where the master and his...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Mary A. Hicks interviews with Midge Burnett

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346030]
Identifier: MSS 2900
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Burnett was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Burnett talks about his work as a slave and also tells what the slaves did for recreation. He claims that the master only hit one slave once, and he gives an account of that occurrence.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hillam War Project interviews of Korean and Vietnam War veterans

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231042422]
Identifier: MSS 6290
Abstract This collection consists of interviews with Korean and Vietnam veterans under the direction of Ray C. Hillam for his war project. It covers topics such as recruitment, training, daily routines, duties, missions, how their experience as an LDS soldier differed from their fellow soldiers, and many other topics as the veterans reveal their war experiences and what it meant to them. Includes six interviews, each interview consisting of a transcript and either a cassette tape or audio reel of the...
Dates: 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Historia de Quetzalcohoatl

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291894]
Identifier: Vault MSS 649
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and leather bound manuscript detailing the life and travels of Quetzalcoatl, god-king of the Aztecs. Described are his teachings, miracles, and an explanation of his name. Duarte proposes the theory that Quetzalcoatl was in fact St. Thomas. This document also describes the history and geography of "Cholula," an area northeast of the Valley of Mexico.

Dates: 1682
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interview with Robert Hosler

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231030302]
Identifier: MSS 6696
Abstract

Oral history interview with Robert Hosler, conducted by Gerald Scheib for the Utah State Historical Society and the California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program 8 July 1971.

Dates: 1971 July 8
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Robert Hughes interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330323]
Identifier: MSS SC 3173
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Darren Timothy on 6 Dec. 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Hughes was from Spanish Fork, Utah, and his father worked for the FBI. Robert Hughes joined the Marine Corps officer's program in 1967 and was sent to serve with the infantry in Vietnam. He later served with motor transportation in Vietnam. He was in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 and went on many search-and-destroy missions. Hughes told about hardships in being away from home. ...
Dates: 1985 December 6
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interview with William Riley Hurst

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231030310]
Identifier: MSS 6694
Abstract

Oral history interview with William Riley Hurst, conducted by James DeMar Redd for the Utah State Historical Society and the University of California, Fullerton Oral History Program on 14 September 1971.

Dates: 1971
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interview with Ralph Bay and Jean C. Hutchings

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227657910]
Identifier: MSS 6850
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ralph Bay and Jean C. Hutchings, conducted by Matthew K. Heiss on 22 June 1989 concerning the Hutchings' mission to Zaire.

Dates: 1989 June 22
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Interstate Brick Company Oral History Project case files, 1973-1974

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 7752 Series 6 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Includes contracts, contact information, and biographical information for the participants, as well as the original audio recordings of the oral history interviews conducted by the Interstate Brick Company Oral History Project, 1973-1974.

Dates: 1973-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Charles Redd Center for Western Studies oral history project records / Interstate Brick Company Oral History Project transcripts and case files

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