The University of Delaware Library

Special Collections Department


Robert H. Richards, Jr.
Delaware
Oral History Collection

1966 - 1978

Manuscript Collection Number: 179
Accessioned: Transferred from the History Department, 1981
Extent: 294 tapes, 188 transcripts
Content: Audiotapes, transcripts
Access: The collection is open for research.

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Table of Contents

+ Introductory note

+ Summary Range of Box Contents

+ Alphabetical Index

+ Subject Index

+ List of transcripts without tapes


Introductory Note

The Delaware Oral History Collection was a project of the History Department of the University of Delaware which was conducted between 1966 and 1978. Two hundred and ninety-four tapes were produced, and 188 of these were transcribed. Students in the History Department interviewed a variety of Delawareans, but seemed particularly interested in documenting the following subjects: educators, immigrants, journalism, politics, and the University of Delaware, Delaware in the Depression, and the 1950s relocation of Long Island and New Jersey potato farmers to Delaware.

This finding aid includes an alphabetical index of interviewees which provides a brief occupational or subject note, date of interview, interviewer's name, and whether or not a transcript exists.

The subject index identifies the broad areas of interest to the interviewers. A few of the oral histories have been transcribed but the original tape is no longer available; these missing tapes are noted by an asterisk (*) in the transcript field and are also listed at the end of the finding aid.


Summary Range of Box Contents


Alphabetical Index

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