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Finding Aids to Oral Histories in the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Record Unit 9570

Dyar Family Oral History Interviews, 1993, 1999
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
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Title: Dyar Family Oral History Interviews
Dates: 1993, 1999
Quantity: 5 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection: Record Unit 9570
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

These interviews of Dyar family members by Marc E. Epstein, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, and Pamela M. Henson, Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, covers his family; youth; education in Washington, D.C.; careers at the Skyland Resort and United States Postal Service; reminiscences of their parents and grandparents, including Harrison Gray Dyar's entomological research at the Division of Insects, United States National Museum, his tunnel digging hobby, their involvement in the Bahai faith; and the Pollock family's role in the development of kindergartens in the United States.

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These interviews of Dyar family members by Marc E. Epstein, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, and Pamela M. Henson, Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, covers their family; youth; education in Washington, D.C.; careers; collecting interests; reminiscences of their parents and grandparents, including Harrison Gray Dyar's entomological research at the Division of Insects, United States National Museum, his tunnel digging hobby, their involvement in the Baha'i faith; and the Pollock family's role in the development of Skyland resort and kindergartens in the United States. This collection consists of 4.5 hours of audiotape recordings and c. 165 pages of transcript.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9570, Dyar Family Oral History Interviews

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Interviews

Interview 1: May 17, 1992

Interviews

Interview of Wallace Dyar discusses his family, especially his parents and two brothers, youth, tunnels behind the Northwest Washington, D.C., house, career, reminiscences of Skyland and George Freeman Pollock, and early days visiting the United States National Museum.

Interviews

Transcript, pp. 1-35, of audiotape recording, 2.0 hours.

Interviews

Audio Recordings of Interviews: Total Recording Time: 2.0 hours

Interviews
Original Masters: 4 7" reel-to-reel analog audiotapes
Reference Copies: 2 cassette audiotapes

Interview 2: August 3, 1999

Interviews

Interview of Roberta Hill and Lowell Dyar discusses their meeting in the same kindergarten class, without knowing they were cousins, and their immediate and long friendship, her mother Dorothy Dyar Hill, his father, Roshan Wilfred Dyar, stories of family eccentricities, their unusual grandfather, and their own collecting interests.

Interviews

Transcript, pp. 1-130, of audiotape recording, 2.5 hours.

Interviews

Audio Recordings of Interviews: Total Recording Time: 2.5 hours

Interviews
Original Masters: 5 7" reel-to-reel analog audiotapess
Reference Copies: 3 cassette audiotapes

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