{"id":74,"date":"2014-11-25T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:44:14","slug":"oralhist_list2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/oralhist_list2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The oral history collections contain cassettes and some transcripts or logs of the interviews of local oral history interviews on various aspects of Rhode Island life in the twentieth century. The Special Collections Unit is a depository for these oral history projects, which were conducted by other agencies. Indexes and finding aids<\/a> describing the histories are kept in the Unit. Electronic versions of selected finding aids are linked to this web page.<\/p>\n

The Family in the Fifties<\/a>
Mss.Gr.116; 1994; 29 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

Fine, Samuel Family History<\/a>
Mss.Gr.203; 1975-1976; 4 cassette tapes; no transcripts<\/p>\n

Galilee Fishermen<\/a> (finding aid)
<\/a>Galilee Fishermen Oral History Tapes<\/a> (digitized recordings)
Mss.Gr.37; 1979; 13 cassette tapes; partial index, supporting research material<\/p>\n

Graduate School of Oceanography Oral History Interviews<\/a>
Rec.Gr.138; 1999; 7 digital video cassettes; no transcripts<\/p>\n

Mable Graves (Osahadah) Oral History Interview on Narragansett life in the 1930\u2019s and 1940\u2019s<\/a>
Mss.Gr.23; 1976; 2 cassette tapes; transcript<\/p>\n

HERA (Gallery)<\/a>
Mss.Gr.64;1988; 23 cassette tapes; no transcripts<\/p>\n

Immigrant Oral Histories<\/a>
Mss.Gr.32;1976-1978; 4 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

In the Wake of \u201938<\/a>
Mss.Gr.30; 1977; 84 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

Jamestown Bridge Project<\/a>
Mss.Gr.93; 1989; 29 cassette tapes; indexed; no transcripts<\/p>\n

Jamestown and Newport Ferry Company Oral History<\/a>
Mss.Gr.55; 1986; 37 cassette tapes; indexes<\/p>\n

Bernard LaFayette Oral History Project<\/a>
Mss.Gr.123; 2002-2003; 10 interviews; index; transcripts<\/p>\n

Life Story Theatre<\/a>
Mss.Gr.66; 1987-1988; 13 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

Florence Luscomb<\/a>
Mss.Gr.82; 1972-1973; 8 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

Mill Life Oral History Collection<\/a>
Mss.Gr.81; 1970-1977; 144 cassette tapes, 42 reel-to-reel tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

(Re)Presenting a Half Century: Oral History of the College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>
Mss.Gr.124; 1982; 9 videocassette tapes; no transcripts<\/p>\n

Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Oral Histories<\/a>
Mss.Gr.174; 1998; 9 cassette tapes; no transcripts<\/p>\n

Rhode Island Working Women<\/a>
Mss.Gr.52; 1982; 33 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

Rhode Island\u2019s Islands<\/a>
Mss.Gr.54; 1985-1986; 60 cassette tapes; logs
Prudence Island-related interviews<\/a> (recordings)<\/p>\n

South Providence Community Gardener Oral History Project<\/a>
Mss.Gr.122; 1997; 7 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

University of Rhode Island Oral History<\/a>
Mss.Gr.39; 1979; 13 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

University of Rhode Island Centennial Oral History<\/a>
Mss.Gr.109; 1992; 52 cassette tapes; no transcripts<\/p>\n

John C. Weldin and Donald B. Webster Oral Histories of Rhode Island State College<\/a>
Mss.Gr.202; 1958-1960; reel-to-reel and cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?<\/a>
Mss.Gr.85; 1989; 42 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

The Whole World Was Watching,1968<\/a>
Mss.Gr.143; 1998; 22 cassette tapes; transcripts<\/p>\n

Yankee Ingenuity<\/a>
Mss.Gr.31;1968; 27 cassette tapes; transcript<\/p>\n

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