Reference Request
Finding Aids to Oral Histories in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 9571
Edson, Dorothy Graham, interviewee
Dorothy Graham Edson Oral History Interviews, 1993
Descriptive Entry
In 1993, William W. Moss, director, and Pamela M. Henson, historian, at Smithsonian Institution Archives conducted four interviews of Dorothy Graham Edson, who was writing a biography of her father using resources in Smithsonian Institution Archives. These interviews of Dorothy Graham Edson and reminiscences of family members and friends cover their family; youth; education in China; careers; David Crockett Graham's collecting interests; reminiscences of their parents, and the challenges of a missionary life abroad. The collection includes four interviews of Edson, three reminiscence sessions with the five Graham sisters, two reminiscence sessions with the sisters and friends I. McConnell, G. and W. McIntyre, and Betty Jean and Dick Barker, remiscences of Cesare Santucci, the Margaret Graham Memorial service and the music recording. The collection contains 19.5 hours of audio recordings and 243 pages of transcript.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
- Edson, Dorothy Graham
- Graham, Alicia Morey
- Graham, David Crockett
- Henson, Pamela M., interviewer
- Moss, William W., 1935- , interviewer
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- University of Chicago
- West China Border Research Society
Subject
- Anthropology
- Chengdu (China)
- China -- Description and travel
- China -- Social life and customs
- Collectors and collecting
- Interviews
- Miao (Chinese people)
- Missionaries
- Museum of Art, Archeology, and Ethnology (Yibin Shi, China)
- Music
- Natural history
- Oral history
- Religion -- China
- Yibin Shi (China)
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9571, Dorothy Graham Edson Oral History Interviews