Oral histories
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Alejandro López Papers and Ethnographic Interviews, 1971-2021
Collection
Identifier: MSS-943-BC
Abstract
This collection contains papers and interviews created and collected by Alejandro López from the 1970s to 2021. The papers relate to education, resolana, and service-learning programs, while the ethnographic interviews focus on elders from Chimayo, Truchas, and other Nuevomexicano communities.
Dates:
1971 - 2021
Lutheran Family Folklore/Folklife Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS -627- BC
Scope and Content
This collection contains cassette tapes (47) and abstracts for twenty interviews with elder members of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Albuquerque. There are no transcripts. Kempe identified the tapes using a number for each interview followed by a small letter to indicate multiple tapes for that interview (i.e. 1(a), 1(b)). The interviewees for this project are direct descendants of St. Paul founders and the children and grandchildren of Scandinavian and German immigrants. They...
Dates:
1985-1986
Mariachi Spectacular Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-521-BC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of advertisements and articles promoting the Mariachi Spectacular; programs, schedules and correspondence; performers biographies; and photographs of events, including broadcast videotapes. Texts of songs and full and partial scores of music performed are also a part of the collection. Audio and video tapes were added to the collection in August 2008. These tapes contain oral interviews with Miguel D. Martinez, Esteban Hernandez, Jesús Rodriguez de Hijar, Nicolás...
Dates:
1984-1996
Native American Oral History Program Interviews - UNM Affiliates
Collection
Identifier: MSS-930-BC
Abstract
The collection consists of oral history interviews designed to shed light on the history, culture, and relationships between Native Americans and the University of New Mexico from the 1920s to the present.
Dates:
2012-2015
Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS -622-BC
Scope and Content
This oral history project consists of 26 individual interviews with former uranium miners or family members of the Navajo Tribe on 26 different cassette tapes. This collection also contains 14 DVDs containing 3 interviews, scenery shots from the mines and the area where the miners lived, as well as some miscellaneous, untranscribed interviews.The interviews were conducted in either Navajo or English by Mr. Benally. Most interviews, or excerpts from them, were transcribed in both...
Dates:
1996-1998
New Mexico Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 425
Scope and Content
The collection consists of taped interviews with prominent people from Santa Fe and New Mexico. All but one tape include transcripts. According to the interviewees, it appears that the oral histories were gathered as part of the Upper Canyon Road Project.Interviewers and project are not identified.
Dates:
1984-1987
NMEH South Valley Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS-636-BC
Scope and Content
This collection contains oral history interviews with 31 individuals from Albuquerque's predominantly Hispanic South Valley. Twenty seven interviews, conducted with 29 individuals, are recorded on 27 sixty-minute audio cassettes. The interview with Benny and Anita Sedillo was not recorded, but there are notes from that interview. There are tape summaries and logs for each of the recorded interviews. Additionally, there is a project description, background information, a resource kit from the...
Dates:
1995-1996
Nob Hill is 100 Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS-978-BC
Abstract
This is a collection of oral history interviews and short films focusing on the history of Nob Hill, a neighborhood in Albuquerque, NM. The project was conducted as part of the “Nob Hill is 100" celebratory year.
Dates:
2015-2017
Odd S. Halseth Collection of Native American Social Songs and Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MU-22
Abstract
This collection consists of 278 sound recordings made in 1950 and 1965. It contains social songs, dances, violin and vocal presentations, oral history interviews and commentaries about Native American customs, social life, ceremonies and rituals.
Dates:
1950-1965
Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0328
Abstract
Transcripts of the oral histories of fifty-six women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and geographical locations in the United States. The oral histories project was created and conducted by Fran Leeper Buss, in collaboration with The Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona. Fran Buss sought to give poor and minority women a forum. Their histories cover a wide range of subject matter, each woman speaking candidly about her own life's conditions and critical...
Dates:
1976-1992
Oral History Interview with Dorothy B. Hughes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-463-BC
Scope and Content
The collection contains oral history interviews with Dorothy Hughes, conducted in March 1989 in El Paso, Tex. by Rose Diaz. In the interviews Hughes discusses her time as a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, writing the fifty year history of the University, her writing career, and her friends and family.
There are no transcripts for the interviews.
The collection also includes one signed letter from Hughes to her publisher, 1964.
There are no transcripts for the interviews.
The collection also includes one signed letter from Hughes to her publisher, 1964.
Dates:
1964-1989
Oral History Interview with Ernest V. Joiner,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-727-SC
Abstract
This collection consists of 4 cassette tapes, in which Janet Neugebauer interviews Ernest V. Joiner in Carrizozo, NM on December 29, 1989. Joiner discusses the newspaper business, small-town life, and politics in west Texas, California, and New Mexico, focusing on 1935-1989.
Dates:
1989 December 29
Oral history interview with John Gaw Meem, Will Shuster, and Karl Larsson
Collection
Identifier: MSS-810-SC
Abstract
John Gaw Meem, Will Shuster, and Karl Larsson discuss Santa Fe and the development of Santa Fe's art colony, as well as the Depression, Los Alamos/World War II, art and artists in general, homogenization and globalization particularly regarding art and architecture.
Dates:
1965 August 27
Oral history interview with Richard Wetherill II
Collection
Identifier: MSS-817-BC
Abstract
The collection consists of an audio interview with Richard Wetherill II, conducted by Richard Sandlin in December 1977. The interview gives insight into the Wetherill family, relationships with the Navajo, and life in the Southwest during the early-mid 20th century.
Dates:
1977 December 1-4
Oral History Interview with William Leverett Jr.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-725-SC
Abstract
The collection consists of a recording of Chris Wilson interviewing William Leverett, Jr. The interview focuses on the development of Nob Hill's Monte Vista subdivision, and to a much lesser extent, University Heights, both neighborhoods in Albuquerque, NM.
Dates:
1985 Oct. 22
Oral History Interviews of the Abo Canyon Oral History Project for the BNSF Railroad
Collection
Identifier: MSS-952-BC
Abstract
Parametrix conducted the cultural resource survey and mitigation of adverse effects for the BNSF's Second Track Project, near Belen, NM as a major component of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 compliance process. Shawn Kelley, a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer interviewed scores of individuals, recording their oral histories related to the railroad, Abo Canyon, and the surrounding area.
Dates:
2007-2009; Majority of material found within 2008
Oral History Interviews of the Jewish Pioneer Video Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS-772-BC
Abstract
The New Mexico Jewish Historical Society's (NMJHS) Jewish Pioneer Video Project consists of memoirs of and about early Jewish settlers in New Mexico. The collection contains video interviews, family history booklets, digital copies of family photographs, and transcripts for all of the interviews.
Dates:
1997-2006
Oral history interviews of the Lama Foundation Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS-860-BC
Abstract
Ammi Kohn, former resident of the Lama Foundation, a spiritual community in San Cristobal, New Mexico, conducted and transcribed oral histories of the Lama Foundation and created the Lama Foundation Oral History Project. The oral histories begin with the earliest conceptions of Lama, before land was purchased, to interviews with residents in the present community. Some interviews were collected by Linda Hansen to support her M.A. thesis research about the Foundation.
Dates:
1970-2009; Majority of material found within 2005-2009
Oral History Interviews of the New Mexico Department of Transportation Oral History Mitigation Projects
Collection
Identifier: MSS-953-BC
Abstract
The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Shawn Kelley for Paramatrix, under contract with the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The interviews were designed to mitigate adverse effects of various projects, including US 82 (Riley Homestead) Data Recovery Project (Eddy County, NM) and Cambray Bridge Replacement Mitigation Project (Luna County, NM).
Dates:
2011
Oral History Interviews of the Voices: Old Town Alburquerque Oral History Project,
Collection
Identifier: MSS -649 -BC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a total of eighteen interviews with eight individuals, recorded on eighteen 90 minute audiocassette tapes. All interviews were conducted in English by Benny Andrés, except the interviews with Dionicia Jojola, during which Andrés spoke English, Jojola spoke Spanish, and a translator served as the intermediary. There is a verbatim transcript for each interview. The transcripts for the Jojola interviews include the transcription of the translation. Also included in the...
Dates:
1995-1999 (bulk 1995)
Oral History Interviews with Frank Waters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-613-BC
Scope and Content
The Frank Waters oral history interviews consist of one master set of thirty-nine (39) professional quality Beta videotapes. The contents of the original tapes are recorded on two sets of thirteen (13) videocassettes for patron use. The set of videocassettes labeled, "Window burn from Beta, camera originals," can be used for editing. Additionally, there are two sets of seven (7) audio cassette tapes of the interviews (one set for patron use), a transcript log, plus a summary log of the contents...
Dates:
1989, September 14-17
Pamela James Collection of Oral History Interviews with New Mexico Women Quilters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1006-BC
Abstract
This collection consists of oral history interviews with five New Mexico women quilters.
Dates:
1981-1983
Patricia D'Andrea Rio Grande, Rio Bravo Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-855-BC
Abstract
This collection contains oral histories, slides and research materials relating to the Rio Grande, Rio Bravo project conducted by Patricia D'Andrea in 1988. The research materials include information about the river, places along the river from the headwaters in Southern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, environmental issues and border/immigration issues.
Dates:
1912-2007; Majority of material found in 1988-2000
Pioneers Foundation (New Mexico) Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-123-BC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of oral history interviews with nineteenth century settlers of New Mexico. It includes 520 reel-to-reel audiotapes and 385 typed transcripts of interviews with ranchers, miners, hunters, sheriffs, naturalists, archeologists and journalists, mostly from the Silver City area. Interviewees recall everyday life and important events from the 1860s to the 1950s. Interviews were conducted by Lou Blachly, a founding member of the Pioneers Foundation. The collection includes...
Dates:
1952-1960
Reynaldo M. Deveaux oral history collection
Series
Identifier: HHC 50
Abstract
Oral history of a Mexican-trained physician who practiced in Taos, New Mexico and the surrounding county for more than forty years. The fifteen page transcript documents the professional life of Reynaldo M. Deveaux, M.D., starting with his years as a contract physician for a U.S. Farm Home Administration program in Taos County, New Mexico in 1942, and through his thirty-five years of private practice in a rural area with a large Hispanic population.
Dates:
1983-1984