Oral Histories
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Lake Hallie Lives Project Files, 2015-2016
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 377
Summary
The Lake Hallie Lives project, funded by a grant through the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, captured stories from residents of the community, and documented the history of several homes in the community through the preparation of architectural survey forms. The collected materials and project affiliated research also supported the creation of a video which explores the history of the Lake Hallie community using photographs and audio segments...
Dates:
2015-2016
Louis Hill Papers, 1914-1978
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Micro 12-Eau Claire Tape 2
Summary
Papers of Hill, a Hawkins, Wisconsin educator and local historian, including essays by Hill on the history of Lawrence, Wisconsin (1887-1914), the Hawkins, Wisconsin schools (1889-1959), the Bethel Lutheran Church (1904-1978), the Hawkins American Legion (1922-1968), the Union Free High School (1912-1967), the Northern Sash and Door Company, and Hawkins fire protection (1914-1970); minutes and dues records of the Hawkins Businessmen's Club (1914-1948) which promoted area commerce; a tape...
Dates:
1914-1978
Sounds of Eau Claire Oral History Project, 2017-2019
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 361
Summary
The project, a collaboration between the Special Collections and Archives Department of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's McIntyre Library, the Chippewa Valley Museum, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's History Department, and Blugold Radio, LLC., aimed to document and better understand the late 19th and early 20th century music scene in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and the broader Chippewa Valley region. Includes oral history transcripts, project files, materials donated/captured in...
Dates:
2017-2019
Stacy Jalowitz: My Experience in the Gulf War, 1990-1992
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CI-PH Eau Claire Mss CI-Tape 1428A
Summary
Stacy Jalowitz, a UWEC freshman, recounts her experiences as a woman who participated in the Persian Gulf War, where she served in the 13th Evacuation Hospital with the Army National Guard during the Desert Storm operation in 1991. Included is her sixteen-page memoir in which she describes her experiences while stationed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and in the desert, twenty miles south of the Iraq border. An oral interview on two audiocassette tapes, twenty photographs, and correspondence are...
Dates:
1990-1992
Ted Simpson Papers, 1990-2018
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 365
Summary
Collection documenting Ted P. Simpson’s experience with K Company, 159th Aviation regiment (18th Airborne Corps) during the Gulf War and of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm from 1990-1991. Simpson was a Sergeant in the United States Army and a Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U). Materials include a diary and correspondence (including transcriptions), photographs of his experience, a chronology list of events, and an oral history interview from 2018.
Dates:
1990-2018
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Gay and Lesbian Oral History Project, 2013-2014
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 351
Summary
An oral history collection concerning the LGBT student organizations on the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire campus. Melissa Schultz conducted oral histories of alumni, faculty, and staff from November 2013 to January 2014. The collection includes other materials ranging from 1992-2017 of news releases, newspaper articles, artifacts, biographies, promotional material related to the LGBT history on campus, and a master’s thesis by Melissa Schultz.
Dates:
Project Date: 2013-2014; Materials Date: 1992-2017
University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Oral History Interviews, 1973-2004
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 473
Summary
The UW-Eau Claire Oral History Interviews collection contains oral history interviews with university faculty members, administrators, and relatives of faculty members such as Leonard Haas, Lyla Flagler, Eugene R. McPhee, and Harvey Schofield’s children. Also includes sets of interviews connected to oral history projects concerning UW-Eau Claire housing and a History 186 class interviewing WWI and WWII veterans. Contains paper documents of typed interview transcripts, interview notes and...
Dates:
1973-2004
Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council: The Impact of Her Spirit Oral History Project, 1983-1989
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BR
Summary
An oral history project undertaken by members of the Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council (WEHC) as a celebration of the organization's 50th anniversary, focusing on the life stories of Wisconsin homemakers and on the influence of the WEHC in their lives. Included are tape-recorded interviews, transcripts, a published guide to the project, a copy of Taste Wisconsin History (a cookbook derived from the project), photographs, a copy of a slide/tape show with...
Dates:
1983-1989