interviews

The "Big Top" Show Goes On: production materials, 2011-2012

Supplementary materials for 'The "Big Top" Show Goes On:An Oral History of Occupations Inside and Outside the Canvas Tent' interviews conducted by Tanya D. Finchum and Juliana M. Nykolaiszen of circus workers a... More

Charles H. Baggett interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Jul...

Charles Baggett, born in 1941, talked about his father Herman, who owned car dealerships in Hugo, Oklahoma, and the relationship Herman developed with the circus community; in particular with D.R. Miller. Charl... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More

Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-0...

Interview focuses on Gus Peplinski's experiences as an ironworker and member of Local 383 Recorded at Gus Peplinski's home, Custer, Wisconsin, July 12, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Uppe... More

Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in O...

Phil Hutchings recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents' involvement in many civic organizations, and attending Howard University. He remembers joining the Nonviolent Action Group (a precursor to the ... More

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 10, Missouri, ...

Includes narratives by Alex Bufford, Alice Sewell, Ann Stokes, Ann Ulrich Evans, Annie Bridges, Betty Abernathy, Betty Brown, Charles Gabriel Anderson, Charlie Richardson, Clara McNeely Harrell, Clay Smith, Dav... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oral history with 64 year old white male, Concord, Massachusetts (Tran...

64 year old white male. For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Concord Historical Commission. Concord, MA Well educated, articulate, involved in community affairs. Family on mother's side d... More

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

John Wesley Greene to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, November 11, 1862 (Re...

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... More

Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...

Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More

Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...

Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family h... More

Junius W. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier ...

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons oral history interview conducted by Joseph M...

Summary: Gwendolyn Simmons recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Spelman College. She remembers directing SNCC's voter registration and Freedom School, called t... More

Oral history with 84 year old black female, Joiner, Arkansas (Transcri...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mid-South center for Oral History, Arkansas State University. AR 84 year old black female. Sharecropping Home medicine, food, cotton picking, doodlum ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversation with 91 year old male and 77 year old female, Arkansas (T...

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 16 year old (Appalachian) white male. Junior in high school and lives in small community of War Creek. Youn... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interview between Grant and Pemberton, Confederate States of America

Print shows Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General John C. Pemberton discussing the terms of the capitulation of Vicksburg, bringing to an end the Union siege of the city.

The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker J...

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interview: Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP / [WKL].

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Wilkins. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR ... More

[Lee A. Iacocca, President of Ford Motor Company, head-and-shoulders p...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 23816, frame 10A. On sheet of pape... More

[Members of a Chinese table tennis team being interviewed at a televis...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 25765, frame 11A. Contact sheet fo... More

Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about c. 1918 photo of...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.

Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about photo of Newberg...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.

Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about photo of Newberg...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.

Interview with Howard Marotto, Naples, Italy, November 26, 2001 (part ...

Video Recording, Non-Music. Interviewee occupation: Captain, United States Marine Corps. Summary: Howard Marotto was in Jacksonville, Florida when the September 11 attacks occurred. He thought, at first, that t... More

Interview with Lorenzo Maffin, Naples, Italy, November 15, 2001

September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interview with Irene Palad, Naples, Italy, November 16, 2001

Interviewee occupation: Student. Video Recording-Non-Music. Summary: Irene Palad was shocked that America was attacked by a Third World entity. She talks about security, changes in America, and her future plans.

"Man-on-the-Street," Austin, Texas, December 9, 1941

The name of one interviewee is unknown. Part of a series of interviews made by John Henry Faulk, Austin, Texas, December 9, 1941. Contents: AFS 06368A, Interview with Mrs. E.N. Curry; AFS 06368B, Interview with... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Oversize, 1859-1985; Writings; 1926; "Hemmung, S...

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Caro...

Interviews were conducted in Adams Run, Brittons Neck, Charleston, Claussens, Columbia, Conway, Estill, Florence, Gaffney, Georgetown County, Greenwood, Lena, Luray, Marion, Murrells Inlet, Murrell's Inlet, New... More

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

The interview took place at Jeff Hafler's dining room table. Hafler discusses his hair styling career, starting in Ohio, learning on Black hair and then building his own business in Los Angeles, where he develo... More

Barbara Miller Byrd interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Ju...

Third-generation circus owner Barbara Miller Byrd was born in 1946. She talked about her parents, D.R. and Isla Miller, and the history of the Carson & Barnes Circus, and the future of traveling tent shows. Bar... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: General Correspondence, 1871-1996; International...

Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-08

Richard Rowe, a business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63, discusses his background, his entrance into the iron working trade, his involvement in the IWU, labor history, and the current state of org... More

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More

The "Big Top" Show Goes On: production materials, 2011-2012

Supplementary materials for 'The "Big Top" Show Goes On:An Oral History of Occupations Inside and Outside the Canvas Tent' interviews conducted by Tanya D. Finchum and Juliana M. Nykolaiszen of circus workers a... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Oversize, 1859-1985; Writings; 1909-1910; Notes ...

Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011...

Two interviews were done with Henry "Bud" Martens. Both were recorded on July 26, 2011. Part 1 (38:39) is longer and more general and concerns his upbringing, early iron worker career, welding, the trade, and s... More

William Sattler interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-2...

William "Bill" Sattler, Iron Workers Union Local 63, discusses his background, early work as an iron worker, his career in the trade, life as union leader, memorable jobs, and also provided photographs of some ... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: General Correspondence, 1871-1996; Frink, Horace...

Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in N...

Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other ci... More

Al Bass and Craig Satalic interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker,...

Craig Satalic and Al Bass, both officials for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local 1, review their entrance into and history in the trade, the importance of the union, the apprenticeship program, labor relations in C... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: General Correspondence, 1871-1996; Sachs, Hanns;...

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B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

The "Big Top" Show Goes On: production materials, 2011-2012

Supplementary materials for 'The "Big Top" Show Goes On:An Oral History of Occupations Inside and Outside the Canvas Tent' interviews conducted by Tanya D. Finchum and Juliana M. Nykolaiszen of circus workers a... More

Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...

Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, P...

Includes narratives by Dina Beard, Aunt Adeline, John W. H. Barnett, Josephine Ann Barnett, Lizzie Barnett, Silas Abbott, Lucian Abernathy, Laura Abromson, Spencer Barnett, Emma Barr, Robert Barr, Mose Banks, E... More

Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...

Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 16, Texas, Par...

Includes narratives by Abram Sells, Adeline White, Albert Todd, Aleck Trimble, Allen Thomas, Ben Simpson, Bert Strong, Betty Simmons, Bill and Ellen Thomas, Callie Shepherd, Caroline Wright, Clarissa Scales, Da... More

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 16, Texas, Par...

Includes narratives by Abram Sells, Adeline White, Albert Todd, Aleck Trimble, Allen Thomas, Ben Simpson, Bert Strong, Betty Simmons, Bill and Ellen Thomas, Callie Shepherd, Caroline Wright, Clarissa Scales, Da... More

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Caro...

Includes narratives by Abbey Mishow, Adeline Jackson, Adeline Johnson (Alias Adeline Hall), Agnes James, Albert Means, Albert Oxner, Amie Lumpkin, Amy (Chavis) Perry, Andrew Means, Andy Marion, Ann Palmer, Anna... More

Conversation with 38 year old male and 34 year old female, Pennsylvani...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Bucknell University. Lewisburg, PA Husband and wife, 38 and 34 years old. Pennsylvania German; old order Mennonite; born in Lancaster County, PA; livi... More

Conversation with 34 year old Native American male, New Mexico (Trans...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 34 year old Native American male.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Brown Girl in the Ring, 1997

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by ...

Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder a... More

Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...

Richard Sobol discusses his early career as a lawyer in Washington, D. C., his involvement with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, and his decision to move to New Orleans to become a civil rights law... More

Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louis...

Summary: Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA... More

Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... More

Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... More

Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...

Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More

Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More

Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...

Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More

Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...

Rosie Head oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula,...

Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheate... More

Conversation with 67 year old black female, Maryland (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of California. Irvine, CA 67 year old black female. House wife, tobacco farmer has 46 grandchildren. Talks about various aspects of tobacco farming.

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Rick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Culv...

Summary: Rick Tuttle describes his family background and when he first became aware of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides when he was a student at Wesleyan University. As a graduate student at the Univer... More

Conversation with 50 year old white male, West Virginia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 50 year old white male. Old time remedies for illness.

Steven McNichols oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in...

Summary: Steven McNichols discussed his childhood in New York City, his mother's illnesses and attending the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958. He became involved in politics through the National St... More

[Lee A. Iacocca, President of Ford Motor, seated at head of a table, w...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 23816, frame 23A. On sheet of pape... More

Fieldworker Tom Carroll interviews band member.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual San Rocco procession, sponsored by the Montescaglioso Club of Paterson, as it passes through the People's Park neighborhood of Paterson, New Jersey.

Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about photo of Newberg...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.

Interview with Karl Kish, Naples, Italy, November 26, 2001 (part 2 of ...

Video Recording, Non-Music. Interviewee occupation: Chaplain, United States Navy. Summary: Karl Kish discusses isolationism, globalization, his family, good and evil, returning to America, change, and patriotism.

Interview with Colleen Applebaugh, Naples, Italy, November 19, 2001

Interviewee occupation: Student. Video Recording, Non-Music. Summary: After hearing about the September 11 terrorist attacks, Colleen Applebaugh was shocked and speechless. She talks about how her parents helpe... More

Interview with Mersadis Maffin, Naples, Italy, November 15, 2001

Interviewee occupation: Student. Video Recording, Non-Music. Summary: Mersadis Maffin talks about her feelings for the victims in the World Trade Center, her future, and how the terrorist attacks have strengthe... More

Interview with Allen Hamby, Naples, Italy, November 19, 2001 (part 1 o...

Interviewee occupation: Student. Video Recording, Non-Music. Summary: Allen Hamby was at cross-country practice when he learned of the attacks. He didn't believe that they happened until he heard an announcemen... More

Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watche...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More

Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...

Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

George Larrimer interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-...

George Larrimer worked the port of Houston for almost 40 years. He started his career in the U.S. Coast Guard. In the mid-1970s he joined the Marine Fire Dept (MFD). He describes the evolution of fire fighting ... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: General Correspondence, 1871-1996; Locker Lampso...

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck has been doing hair for thirty-two years. She talks about how she started and the role her customers play in her life. She discusses her organizing and timing strategies for doing chemical treatment... More

The "Big Top" Show Goes On: production materials, 2011-2012

Supplementary materials for 'The "Big Top" Show Goes On:An Oral History of Occupations Inside and Outside the Canvas Tent' interviews conducted by Tanya D. Finchum and Juliana M. Nykolaiszen of circus workers a... More

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

The interview took place at Jeff Hafler's dining room table. Hafler discusses his hair styling career, starting in Ohio, learning on Black hair and then building his own business in Los Angeles, where he develo... More