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Kirkwood, Missouri Oral History Project, 1995-1997 (C3962)
0.1 cubic feet, 10 audio cassettes
The Kirkwood, Missouri, Oral History Project was an attempt to supplement the book, Kirkwood, Missouri: The Greentree City. A Pictorial History, edited by Barbara J. Byerly and J.B. Lester, which was published in 1994. The interviews were to emphasize events after 1960.
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Lilian Kranitz Papers, 1923-1983 (K0238)
1 c.f.
Taped interviews and written transcripts of 13 Holocaust survivors from Lodz, Poland. Also includes notes, reports, and articles on historical background and policies towards Eastern European Jews.
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Donald M. Lance Papers, 1938-2002 (C3992)
11.3 cubic feet (754 folders), 144 audio cassettes
The papers of a University of Missouri English professor, well-known for his lectures on the pronunciation of “Missouri” and other dialect research, contain extensive professional correspondence, research data, articles, presentations, teaching materials, and materials related to his work with professional organizations. Audio cassettes include interviews with Germans in Missouri and with decorated U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Byrl D. Taylor, Missouri folk musicians, and examples of English language dialects.
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Raymond W. Lansford Oral History Collection, 1985-2010 (C4725)
0.1 cubic foot (5 folders), 7 CDs
Oral history of the life of Raymond W. Lansford. Landsford served in the United States Air Force during World War II and flew 30 missions over Europe. There are recorded interviews along with transcripts of the recordings. Additionally, there are materials that detail portions of Raymond's life before and after his time in the military.
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Robert Lipscomb Papers, 1945-2019 (SP0053)
0.4 cubic foot (20 folders, 1 cd)
The Robert Lipscomb Papers consists of photographs taken or collected by Robert Lipscomb in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as an oral history interview with Robert. The majority of the photographs were taken during Robert's career with the Missouri Conservation Commission and include images of Missouri's forests and landscapes, in addition to fire lookout towers across South Central Missouri.
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Living Treasures Oral History Collection, 1983-1985 (S0456)
0.4 cubic foot, 32 folders, 112 photographs
The St. Louis Living Treasures Project documented the life and artwork of older folk artists in the St. Louis area. The folk artists shared techniques learned from their cultures of origin in oral history interviews conducted by OASIS. The 31 artists who participated include African Americans, Native Americans, Asian immigrants, and European immigrants.
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George McCue Papers, 1948-1985 (S0495)
15 cubic feet, 456 photographs, 21 audio cassette tapes
The George McCue papers contain information on the preservation of the Old Post Office in downtown St. Louis and personal correspondence regarding George McCue's role as an art critic and editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Also included in the collection is an oral interview with McCue recorded on August 21, 1990.
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McDonnell Space Program In St. Louis Collection, 1957-2008 (S0759)
3 cubic feet, 125 photographs, 2 CDs, 16 miniDV tapes, 3 DVDs, HTML files
The McDonnell Space Program in St. Louis Collection documents the role of St. Louisans in NASA’s Project Mercury (1959-1963) and Project Gemini (1961-1966). The collection consists of video and audio interviews with eleven former McDonnell Aircraft Corporation employees and accompanying materials including photographs, documents, and digital materials.
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James L. Miller Interview, 1965 (C3397)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders), 1 audio tape
Audio tape and transcription of an interview with the editor of the Washington Missourian.
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Missouri Desegregation and Civil Rights Oral History Project Records, 2013-2014 (C4116)
0.2 cubic feet (15 folders), 35 CDs, 1 computer disc
The collection largely consists of interviews with people who attended Douglass and/or Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri. The collection consists of digitally recorded interviews, audio logs, and photographs. The collection is ongoing and open to interviews concerning any school and/or civil rights topic in Missouri.
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Missouri Environment Oral History Project Records, 1963, 1997-2021 (C3966)
0.6 cubic feet (67 folders), 55 audio cassettes, 75 compact discs, 66.6 GB of digital files
Interviews with Missouri land use and natural resource professionals and other individuals related to the environment in Missouri. The records include audio cassettes, CDs, audio logs, and transcripts.
Missouri Ex-POWs Oral History Project Records, 2000-2018 (C3975)
1.2 cubic feet (99 folders), 216 audio cassettes, 53 compact discs
Interviews with ex-prisoners of war (POWs). The records include audio cassettes, compact discs, and transcripts.
Missouri Extension Homemakers Association Records, 1909-2013 (C4696)
29.3 cubic feet (919 folders) 268 audio cassettes, 5 35mm film negatives, 3 oversize items, 21 oversize volumes
Material pertaining to the women’s extension clubs in Missouri include meeting minutes, programs, lists of officers, annual records, handbooks, project reports, histories, publications, correspondence, scrapbooks, project files, and miscellany of the state organization and various chapters. Includes oral histories collected for the organization’s 50th anniversary.
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Missouri German Heritage Corridor Oral History Project, 2018 (C4354)
0.4 cubic feet (6 folders), 9CDs
A collaborative project between the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council, this collection emphasizes the past and present influence of German heritage in Missouri, including historic sites, past people, notable conflicts, religious influence, agriculture, music, art, and architecture. The German Heritage Corridor will focus on the counties north and south of the Missouri River, from St. Charles and St. Louis, to Chariton, Saline, and Lafayette. This corridor includes several distinct German communities, including New Melle, Herman, Dutzow, and Westphalia.
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Missouri Innovation & Exploration Oral History Project Records, 2018 (C4352)
0.4 cubic feet (17 folders), 32 CDs
The collection consists of interviews with Missourians who have been involved with projects related to innovation and exploration in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The collection includes digitally recorded interviews and transcripts of the interviews.
Missouri Librarians Oral History Collection, 2020-2021 (C4501)
190 GB of digital files (65 mp4s)
The collection contains digital video oral history interviews conducted by Steve W. Campbell, director of the Scenic Regional Library in Union, Missouri, with retired library directors from across the state about their lives and careers.
Missouri Lives Oral History Project Records, 2014-2018 (C4249)
0.01 cubic feet (13 folder), 27 CDs, 1 DVD, 80.1 GBs
The collection consists of interviews with a wide array of Missourians who have had an interesting personal history and life. The collection consists of digitally recorded interviews, transcripts, and ephemera.
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Missouri Mule History Project Records, 1980-1993 (C3954)
2 cubic feet (152 folders), 148 audio cassettes, 1 CD
Records produced by a University of Missouri project to document the history of the state's mule industry, consisting of oral history recordings and transcripts of interviews with men and women concerning their experiences with the Missouri mule, project produced publications, and promotional materials.
Missouri Newspapers Oral History Project Records, 1996-2015 (C3965)
0.2 cubic feet (13 folders), 21 audio cassettes, 4 compact discs
Interviews with Missouri newspaper people regarding the history and evolution of newspapers in Missouri. The records include audio cassettes, transcripts, logs, notes, correspondence, and related ephemera.
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Missouri River Folk History Project Records, 2005 (CA6109)
0.2 cubic feet, 37 DVDs
Oral history interviews of Missourians who have lived and worked along the Missouri River. Meredith Ludwig conducted the interviews.
Missouri Sports & Recreation Oral History Project, 2018-2019 (C4377)
0.4 cubic feet (3 folders), 8 CDs
The Missouri Sports & Recreation Oral History Project is a regular, on-going project conducted by the State Historical Society of Missouri. The project seeks to document the history of sports and recreation in Missouri, as well as notable competitive activities and events involving Missourians. Topics and issues addressed include organized sports, recreation, sports administration, sports journalism, and activism and protest in athletics.
Missouri State Museum, Interpretation Program, Oral History Recordings, 1980-2009 (CA6218)
1.2 cubic feet, 410 audio cassettes, 78 video cassettes, 205 DVDs, 3 CDs
Oral history interviews with Missourians regarding historical events on audio cassettes, video cassettes, and DVDs. Also includes transcripts and related material such as photographs, negatives, news clippings, obituaries, correspondence, personal accounts, and ephemera.
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Missouri Veteran Stories Collection, 2007-2010 (C4089)
934 DVDs, 230 DAT tapes, 5.77 GB of digital files (467 flv files)
The collection contains interviews with Missouri veterans on DVDs and DAT tapes.
Missouri Veterans History Project Oral History Records, 2010-2023 (C4052)
6.50 cubic feet, 10 CDs, 1908 DVDs
The records of the Missouri Veterans History Project contain the local copy of veteran oral history interviews recorded for the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. The records include audio, video, interview logs, and some transcripts. The former Western Historical Manuscript Collection, a joint collection with the State Historical Society of Missouri, was a founding partner of the Veterans History Project in 2001.
Missouri Veterans Oral History Project, 2006-2019 (C4020)
0.4 cubic feet, 2 audio cassettes, 32 CDs, 1 DVD
Interviews with Missourians who served in the armed forces. The collection includes compact discs, audio cassettes, DVDs, and transcripts of the interviews, as well as biographical information on the interviewees.
Missouri Veterinary Medical Foundation Oral History Project Records, 1975-1976 (C4606)
0.15 cubic feet (4 folders, 25 audio cassettes)
Records of an oral history project to document veterinary medicine in Missouri, consisting of interviewee biographical information and interviews.
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Missouri, Wayne County Collection, 1985 (C4673)
2 audio cassettes
Audio recordings of Wayne County, Missouri, residents concerning the settlement, education, business, transportation, religion, Civil War, and other aspects of the history of the county.
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Rusty Monhollon Oral History Collection, 2001 (C4652)
0.2 cubic feet (8 folders), 8 audio cassettes
Audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by students for a University of Missouri course on post-1945 U.S. history.
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Haskell M. Monroe Jr. Oral History Collection, 1994-1996 (C3980)
1.8 cubic feet, 483 audio cassettes, 17 CDs
Interviews produced by Haskell Monroe and University of Missouri students to document Columbia, Missouri, in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes audio cassettes, transcripts, and miscellaneous material.
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Neighborhood News Collection, 1982-1992 (K0635)
3 cubic feet (117 folders, 96 reels)
The Neighborhood News Collection contains open reels of audio recordings conducted by Allen Simon for the Kansas City Neighborhood News radio show. The reels contain segments of news and updates regarding many Kansas City metropolitan neighborhoods from 1982 to 1992.
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One-room Schoolhouse Oral History Project Records, 2008-2021 (C4051)
0.9 cubic feet (8 folders), 59 CDs
The collection consists of interviews with people who attended or taught at one-room schoolhouses. Includes digitally recorded interviews and transcripts of the interviews, photographs, textbooks, as well as some biographical information on the interviewees.
Oral Histories of the Japanese American Community in St. Louis Collection, 1906-1988 (S0682)
7 cubic feet, 68 folders, 1134 photographs, 21 cassette tapes, 8 books, 6 scrapbooks
The Oral Histories of the Japanese American Community in St. Louis Collection documents the experience of Japanese Americans relocation into internment camps and to what life was like for Japanese Americans post-relocation. It includes tapes and transcripts of the oral history interviews conducted as part of Herm Smith's documentation project, which began in 1984. Also included in the collection are the records of the St. Louis Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen League (JACL), which Smith collected during the project. The JACL materials date from the 1950s to the 1970s, and consist of newsletters, newspaper clippings, financial ledgers, meeting minutes, and correspondence, which document the group’s efforts to protect the civil rights of Japanese Americans.
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Oral History Collection, 1971-1995 (S0829)
11 cubic feet
The Oral History Collection consists of reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, and transcripts of oral histories conducted by Western Historical Manuscript Collection staff and the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) students. Topics of interest include African-American community leaders, labor leaders, immigrants, the Great Depression in St. Louis, and Jazz musicians.
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Ozark Rivers Oral Histories Collection, 1981-1983 (R1430)
0.25 cubic foot (7 folders, 7 cassettes, 7 CDs)
The Ozark Rivers Oral History collection consists of interviews done by Alex Primm of eight individuals living in Crawford, Franklin, Phelps and Washington counties in Missouri and their corresponding newspaper articles.
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Politics in Missouri Oral History Project Records, 1996-2020 (C3929)
2.2 cubic feet (171 folders), 338 audio cassettes, 18 CDs, 5 DVDs, 5 Mini DV cassettes
Interviews with Missouri legislators, politicians, aides, and others involved in Missouri politics. The records include audio cassettes, compact discs, and transcripts of the interviews.
Alex Primm Oral History Collection, 1981-2000 (SP0054)
1 cubic foot (113 audio cassette tapes)
The Alex Primm Oral History Collections contain audio cassette tapes with oral history interviews conducted by Alex Primm in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The interviews cover a range of Ozark related topics such as Grasshopper Hollow in Reynolds County, Missouri; Palmer, Missouri; Ozark rivers; and Fort Leonard Wood. The project on Ozark rives includes interviews with individuals lived and made their livings on or near the Current, Jacks Fork, Little Piney, and Big Piney rivers. Primm interviewed local residents, many of whom had lived in the Ozarks their entire lives.
Randolph E. Puchta Interview, 1998 (C2521)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder), 3 audio cassettes, 3 CDs
Interview with Puchta, a resident of Hermann, MO. Puchta discusses his early life, German ancestry, wine making, local customs and leisure activities, and transportation. Of note are his descriptions of photographs from the Edward Kemper Collection at WHMC-Columbia (Accession No. 4633).
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Radio Homemakers Oral History Project Records, 1992 (C4080)
0.1 cubic feet (1 folder)
The records contain transcripts of interviews with women who worked as radio homemakers from the 1940s through 1980s. Radio homemakers broadcast on rural, Midwestern radio stations and offered information and advice on domestic affairs such as cooking, sewing, and child rearing. Also includes paper presented to 1992 Popular Culture Convention based on the interviews.
Homer Price Rainey Interview, 1968 (C2542)
0.17 cubic feet (8 folders)
Interview with a former president of Bucknell University, Stephens College, Franklin University, and the University of Texas. Interview concerns his theories of education, college administration, his Texas presidency, and his gubernatorial campaign.
Harrison Lang Rogers Interview, 1965 (C3395)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders), 2 audio tapes
Audio tapes and transcripts of an interview with the editor of the Joplin Globe and Joplin News Herald.
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William James Ryan Papers, 1914-1996 (K0457)
10 c.f.
Research material, draft manuscripts, and oral history interviews and transcripts related to Ryan's book and other writings on the history of radio and television broadcasting in the Kansas City region.
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Sainte Genevieve "The Way We Worked Exhibit" Oral History Records, 2011 (CG0021)
0.01 cubic feet (1 folder)
The 96 oral histories were produced by Bolduc House Museum in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri for the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit "The Way We Worked". This is the local copy of the records.
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Liz Schmidt Interview, 2010 (CA6352)
4 CDs
Oral history interview conducted with Liz Schmidt by Doug Hunt concerning her activism in Columbia, Missouri, during the 1960s. Collection contains audio only.
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Adolf E. and Rebecca B. Schroeder Collection, 1550, 1800-1804, 1913-2012 (C4483)
19.0 cubic feet (458 folders), 233 audio cassettes, 28 audio discs, 41 audio tapes, 80 video cassettes, 1 CD, 2 rolls microfilm, 1 film, 8 oversize items, 104 KB of digital files
The papers of Adolf Schroeder, professor of German at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and his wife Rebecca, editor of the Missouri Heritage Readers, including their work with European-American oral histories and Missouri folklore and folk music.
Sylvia Minkin Shopmaker Oral History Transcription, 1985 (K1213)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)
This collection includes a transcription of an oral history interview conducted by Lililan Kranitz with Sylvia Minkin Shopmaker, focusing on her life, her family history, and the Jewish community of Kansas City.
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Nancy J. Shulze Oral History Collection, 1998 (K0970)
0.1 c.f.
Audio tapes and the transcripts of oral interviews Shulze conducted concerning interracial marriage.
St. Louis Chinese Americans Oral History Collection, 1993-1994 (S0556)
0.5 cubic foot, 12 tapes
This collection contains oral history interviews conducted with seven members of St. Louis' Chinese-American community in 1993 and 1994. The collection includes 12 audio cassette tapes, transcripts, and accompanying documents supplied by the Chinese Americans interviewed for the oral history project.
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State Historical Society of Missouri Audio Cassette Collection, 1976-2000 (C3963)
0.3 cubic feet, 34 audio cassettes, 1 8mm film
The State Historical Society of Missouri Oral History Project is a collection of miscellaneous interviews, lectures, and speeches collected over the years.
Leland Steinkuehler German Dialect Collection, 2005-2008 (CA6096)
1 folder, 8 audio cassettes, 10 CDs
Recordings and accompanying paperwork of interviews done with Missourians of German heritage from Concordia, Loose Creek, Westphalia, and St. Elizabeth, Missouri, as well as visitors from Meerbusch, Germany. Includes a comparison of dialects between three interviewees. The interviews were conducted by Leland Steinkuehler. Addition of recordings of a Lutheran Church service conducted in Low German and a narration with English translations by Reverend Alfred W. Rodewald, 2009.