Reference Request
Finding Aids to Oral Histories in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 9594
Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife, 1996
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Title: | Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife |
Dates: | 1996 |
Quantity: | 160 audiotapes (Originals). 15 audiotapes (Reference copies). |
Collection: | Record Unit 9594 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | A section of the 1996 Festival of American Folklife was devoted to capturing the history and memories of Smithsonian for the Smithsonian Institution's celebration of its Sesquicentennial in 1996. Staff and volunteers of the Institutional History Division and the Center for Folklife Programs conducted interviews with Smithsonian staff, volunteers, and visitors about their memories of the Smithsonian. Between June 26 and July 4, 1996 some 173 individuals were interviewed alone and in groups. Interviewees included a wide array of Smithsonian staff from many museums and organizations, several Smithsonian volunteers, and a number of visitors to the Festival. Staff interviewees ranged from guards from a K-9 unit, to administrators, curators, educators, skull crews who move large objects, registrars, administrative staff, and horticultural staff, among others. Interviews of visitors focused on their reminiscences of visits to the Smithsonian museums and previous Folklife Festival. |
Historical Note
A section of the 1996 Festival of American Folklife was devoted to capturing the history and memories of Smithsonian for the Smithsonian Institution's celebration of its Sesquicentennial in 1996. Staff and volunteers of the Institutional History Division and the Center for Folklife Programs conducted interviews with Smithsonian staff, volunteers, and visitors about their memories of the Smithsonian. Between June 26 and July 7, 1996, some 173 individuals were interviewed alone and in groups. Interviewees included a wide array of Smithsonian staff from many museums and organizations, several Smithsonian volunteers, and a number of visitors to the Festival. Staff interviewees ranged from guards in a K-9 unit, to administrators, curators, educators, "skull" crews who move large objects, registrars, administrative staff, and horticultural staff, among others. Interviews of visitors focused on their reminiscences of visits to the Smithsonian museums and previous Folklife Festivals. Additional interviews of collected Smithsonian staff can be found in Record Unit 9508, Senate of Scientists Interviews; Record Unit 9522, Association of Curators Reminiscences; Record Unit 9595, Smithsonian's 150thBirthday Interviews; and Record Unit 9622, National Museum of Natural History Centennial Interviews.
Introduction
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program staff conduct interviews with current and retired Smithsonian staff and others who have made significant contributions to the Institution. There are also interviews conducted by researchers or students on topics related to the history of the Smithsonian or the holdings of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Descriptive Entry
This collection is comprised of one hundred and sixty interview sessions, totaling approximately 68.5 hours of recordings, and 289 pages of transcript. There are two, three or four generations of recordings for each session: original tapes, re-mastered tapes and reference tapes, and digital audio .mp3 file. files. In total, this collection is comprised of 160 original audiocassette tapes, 45 re-mastered 7" and 7" low torque tapes, 22 re-mastered 10" tapes, and 15reference copy audio cassette tapes. Thirteen of the interview sessions have been transcribed, while the remainder of interview sessions have been described in short summaries.
Interviewees were Smithsonian staff, retirees, volunteers, and visitors, including:
Lorie Aceto - 033
Paul Allen - 044
Leslie Atkins - 034
Preston Atkins - 034
Betty Belanus - 123
Louise D. Belcher - 027
Stephen Belcher - 027
Dick Bell - 140
Cordelia Benedict - 141
Francine Berkowitz - 026
Maggie Bertin - 132
Carvester Booth - 050
David Bosserman - 133
Steven Bostwick - 137
Anita Buffaloe - 105
Josephine Burman - 057
Olivia Cadaval - 040
Richard Callwood - 139
Nathaniel Carleton - 071
Judy Chelnick - 099
Barbara Coffee - 091
Sheila E. Cogan - 095
Ronald Colaprete - 081
Judie Cooper - 058
Patricia Cox - 038
William E. Cox - 077
Myron Curtis - 009
Melissa Darden - 135
Herb Davis - 056
James Deutsch - 055
David DeVorkin - 006
Kathleen Dorman - 029
Doc Dougherty - 157
James Early - 062
Douglas Evelyn - 068
Edgar Farley - 101
Edward Fisher III - 153
Jody Fitterer - 008
Lou Fleming - 088
John Franklin - 085
William Gagham - 124
Jim Galvin - 096
Helen Gaul - 102
Mark Geiger - 083
John Gibson - 011
Jane Glaser - 041
Lee Galssco - 122
Andrew Goffrey - 042
Carol Gover - 036
Elease Hall - 092
Sara Harkavy - 080
Marguerite Harding - 021
Robert Harding - 078
Rebecca Hartman - 080
William Hartung - 017
Martha Hayes - 052
Leonard Hirsch - 125
Alice Hirschfeld - 002
Elaine Hodges - 134
Cynthia Hoover - 024
Bernard Howard - 136
David Howery - 131
Karin Hoyes - 001
Regina H. Ingrim - 160
Reuben Jackson - 111
David Jickling - 117
Myron Johnson - 047
Larry Jones - 042
Mitchell Jones - 149
Steve Jones - 042
Ken Jordan - 042
Martin Kaufna - 066
Walter Kelly - 144
Dana Kent - 065
David Kessler - 070
Kethshara Khlok - 147
Donald E. Kloster - 015
Ramunas Kondratas - 106
Amy Kotkin - 145
Kamille Kreger - 051
Michael Kreger - 051
Manjula Kumar - 010
Katharine Landfield - 114
Peggy Langrall - 086
Dorothy Laoang - 037
Felix Lapinski - 022
Jeffrey LaRiche - 152
Elyse Lattner - 159
Tom Lauderbaugh - 076
Myron Lecar - 059
Rose Lee - 061
Martin Levine - 107
Steven Lubar - 110
Marian Hope Lund - 003
Ian MacTavish - 073
Joseph Madeira - 014
Peter Magoon - 148
Barbara Manioc - 096
Sally Maran - 087
Kenneth Mason - 143
B. C. May - 004
Virginia McCawley - 121
Mary McCutcheon - 104
David McFadden - 025
Joseph H. McGuiness - 082
Adriana McMurray - 097
Jimmy Melendez - 044
Felicia Messina-D'Haiti - 084
Per Midboe - 073
Harry Miller - 138
Barbara Moore - 103
David Moore - 064
Marvin Nakashima - 005
Diana N'Diaye - 035
Norman Novack - 155
Jen Page - 146
Geoffrey Parker - 150
Joan Paull - 060
Marvette Perez - 109
Catherine Perge - 032
Don Phillips - 042
Jeff Place - 154
Nancy Pope - 119
Jean Porter - 007
Fred Price - 053
Louis R. Purnell - 089
Larry Randall - 054
Jahari Rashad - 158
Sharon Reinckens - 019
Sharon Rohnback - 093
Anne Roocker - 069
Rex Roocker - 069
Ingrid Roper - 031
Cordelia Rose - 115
Deborah Rothberg - 130
Lucile Rowe - 018
Margaret Santiago - 113
Lori Schlemmer - 098
Volkor K. Schmeissner - 127
Eric Scott - 046
Mina Smith Segal - 043
Ruth Selig - 108
Arnold Sperling - 048
David Squire - 156
John Stine - 030
Sally Sweetland - 023
Nancy Sweezey - 151
Charles Tamosa - 142
Kenneth Thomas - 045
L. Susan Tolbert - 112
Billy Turner - 020
Raineldo Urriola - 094
Vincent VanAllen - 128
Tom Vennum - 028
Jane Walsh - 012
Rita Wanpeha - 120
Mark H. Warmaling - 072
Deborah Watkins - 075
Mick Weltman - 067
David West - 079
Dennis Whigham - 074
Janice Whigham - 192
William White - 049
Amy Wilson - 063
Jennie Witthoff - 039
Douglas Wonderlic - 118
Mary Wood - 016
Chuck Woolf - 126
Steptoe Wrenn - 013
Holly Wright - 116
Agnes Yore - 090
Elizabeth Zimmer - 100
Amanda Zocchi - 038
Interviewers were Smithsonian staff and volunteers, including Francine Berkowitz, Maggie Bertin, Dorothy Blink, David Bosserman, Emily Botein, Olivia Cadaval, Tim Carr, Vivien Chen, Martin Collins, Eduardo Contreras, Odette Diaz, John Franklin, Shenandoah Gale, Joanne Gernstein-London, Margy Gibson, Terrica M. Gibson, John McKiernan Gonzalez, Pamela M. Henson, Paula Johnson, Katherine Kirlin, Felix Lapinski, Tom Lawrence, Brian LeMay, Magdelena Mieri, Pilar Somma Montalvo, Jen Page, Marvette Perez, Catherine Perge, Sarita Rodriguez, and Polly Stewart.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Henson, Pamela M. interviewer
- Gibson, Terrica M. interviewer
- Montalvo, Pilar Somma interviewer
- Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies
- Smithsonian Institution -- Anniversaries, etc.
- Festival of American Folklife
- Smithsonian Institution Sesquicentennial (1996 : Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Visitors
- Volunteers
- Museums -- Employees
- African Americans -- History
- Anniversaries
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)
- Museum curators
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9594, , Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife
Container List
Box 1
Smithsonian Memories Interviews 1-114, Cassette tapes of Interviews
FAF/SM96-001 - Karin Hayes, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-002 - Alice Hirschfeld, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-003 - Marian Hope Lund, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-004 - B. C. May, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-005 - Marvin Nakashima, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-006 - David DeVorkin, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-007 - Jean Porter, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-008 - Jody Fitterer, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-009 - Myron Curtis, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-010 - Manjula Kumar, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-011 - John Gibson, June 26, 1996.
FAF/SM96-012 - Jane Walsh, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-013 - Steptoe Wrenn, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-014 - Joe Madeira, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-015 -Donald E. Kloster, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-016 - Mary Wood, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-017 - William Hartung, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-018 - Lucile Rowe, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-019 - Sharon Reinckens, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-020 -Billy Turner, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-021 - Marguerite Harding, June 27, 1996
FAF/SM96-022 - Felix Lapinski, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-023 - Sally Sweetland, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-024 - Cynthia Hoover, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-025 - David McFadden, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-026 - Francine Berkowitz, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-027 - Stephen "Pat" Belcher and Louise D. Belcher, June 27, 1996.
FAF/SM96-028 - Tom Vennum, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-029 - Kathleen Dorman, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-030 - John Stine, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-031 - Ingrid Roper, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-032 - Catherine Perge, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-033 - Lorie H. Aceto, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-034 - Preston and Leslie Atkins, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-035 - Diana N'Diaye, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-036 - Carol Gover, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-037 - Dorothy Laoang, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-038 - Patricia Cox and Amanda Zocchi, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-039 - Jenie Witthoff, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-040 - Olivia Cadaval, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-041 - Jane Glaser, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-042 - The Skull Crew (Steve Jones, Andrew Goffrey, Don Phillips, Ken Jordan) and Larry Jones, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-043 - Mina Smith Segal, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-044 - Jimmy Melendez and "Milo" and Paul Allen and "K-9 Lucky", June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-045 - Kenneth Thomas, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-046 - Eric Scott, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-047 - Myron Johnson, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-048 - Arnold Sperling, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-049 - William White, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-050 - Carvester Booth, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-051 - Kamille and Michael Kreger, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-052 - Martha Hayes, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-053 - Fred Price, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-054 - Larry Randall, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-055 - Jim Deutsch, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-056 - Herb Davis, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-057 - Josephine Burman, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-058 - Judie Cooper, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-059 - Myron Lecar, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-060 - Joan Paull, June 29, 1996.
FAF/SM96-061 - Rose Lee, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-062 - James Early, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-063 - Amy Wilson, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-064 - David Moore, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-065 - Donna Kent, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-066 - Martin Kaufna, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-067 - Mick Weltman, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-068 - Douglas Evelyn, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-069 - Anne and Rex Roocker, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-070 - David Kessler, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-071 - Nathaniel Carleton, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-072 - Mark Wamaling, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-073 - Per Midboe and Ian MacTavish, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-074 - Dennis Whigham, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-075 - Deborah Watkins, June 30, 1996.
FAF/SM96-076 - Tom Lowderbaugh, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-077 - William E. Cox, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-078 - Robert Harding, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-079 - Dave West, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-080 - Rebecca Hartman and Sara Hackavy, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-081 - Ronald Colaprete, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-082 - Joseph H. McGuiness, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-083 - Mark Geiger, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-084 - Felicia Messina-D'Haiti, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-085 - John Franklin, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-086 - Peggy Langrall, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-087 - Sally Maran, July 3, 1996.
FAF/SM96-088 - Lou Fleming, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-089 - Louis Purnell, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-090 - Agnes Yore, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-091 - Barbara Coffee, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-092 - Elease Hall, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-093 - Sharon Rohnback, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-094 - Raineldo Urriola, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-095 - Sheila E. Cogan, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-096 - Jim Galvin and Barbara Manioc, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-097 - Adriana McMurray, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-098 - Lori Schlenker, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-099 - Judy Chelnick, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-100 - Elizabeth Zimmer, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-101 - Edgar Farley, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-102 - Helen Gaul, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-103 - Barbara Moore, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-104 - Mary McCutcheon, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-105 - Anita Buffaloe, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-106 - Ramunas "Ray" Kondratas, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-108 - Ruth Selig, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-109 - Marvette Perez, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-110 - Steven Lubar, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-111 - Reuben Jackson, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-112 - L. Susan Tolbert, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-113 - Margaret Santiago, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-114 - Katharine Landfield, July 5, 1996.
Box 2
FAF/SM96-115 - Cordelia Rose, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-116 - Holly Wright, July 5, 1996.
FAF/SM96-117 - David Jickling, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-118 - Doug Wonderlic, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-119 - Nancy Pope, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-120 - Rita Warpeha, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-121 - Virginia McCawley, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-122 - Lee Glassco, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-123 - Betty Belanus, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-124 - William Gagham, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-125 - Leonard Hirsch, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-126 - Chuck Woolf, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-127 - Volkor K. Schmeissner, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-128 - Vincent Van Allen, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-129 - Janice Whigham, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-130 - Deborah Rothberg, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-131 - David Mowery, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-132 - Maggie Bertin, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-133 - David Bosserman, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-134 - Elaine Hodges, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-135 - Melissa Darden, July 6, 1996.
FAF/SM96-136 - Bernard Howard, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-137 - Steven Bostwick, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-138 - Harry Miller, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-139 - Richard Callwood, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-140 - Dick Ball, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-141 - Cordelia Benedict, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-142 - Charles Tumosa, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-143 - Kenneth Mason, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-144 - Walter Kelly, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-145 - Amy Kotkin, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-146 - Jen Page, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-147 - Kethshara Khlok, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-148 - Peter Magoon, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-149 - Mitchell Jones, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-150 - Geoffrey Parker, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-151 - Nancy Sweezy, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-152 - Jeffrey LaRiche, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-153 - Edward Fisher III, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-154 - Jeff Place, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-155 - Norman Novack, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-156 - David Squires, July 7, 1996.
FAF/SM96-157 - Doc Dougherty, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-158 - Jahari Rashad, June 28, 1996.
FAF/SM96-159 - Elyse Lattner, July 4, 1996.
FAF/SM96-160 - Regina H. Ingrim, July 4, 1996.
Box 3
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 4
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 5
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 6
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 7
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 8
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 9
Reel to reel remasters of original cassettes
Box 10
Folders 1-13 Transcripts of the interviews of Francine Berkowitz, Myron Curtis, James Early, Douglas Evelyn, Jane Glaser, Peggy Langrall, Tom Lauderbaugh, Catherine Perge, Jeffrey LaRiche, NMAH "Skull Crew", Billy Turner, and Agnes Yore
Folder 14 Digital remasters of audiotape recordings
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