OHs. Oral Histories
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Quilt Project Cassette Tapes
Oral history project conducted by the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts at Virginia Tech. Collection consists of recorded interviews with forty-three quilt makers in Floyd and Washington counties, Virginia. Transcripts available.
Black Appalachians Oral History Project
The Black Appalachians Oral History Project consists of approximately twenty-five taped interviews conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University concerning black life in Appalachia, especially in Montgomery County, Virginia.
Black Excellence in STEM Oral History Collection
The Black Excellence in STEM Oral History Project contains 16 digital interviews and transcripts documenting the stories of Black individuals who are currently or previously were invovled in STEM reserach.
Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project Records
Christiansburg Industrial Institute Oral History Project
Crown Cotton Mills [Dalton, Georgia] Oral History Tapes
The collection contains oral history tapes of employees at the Crown Cotton Mills in Dalton, a textile town in the Appalachian Valley of northwest Georgia. Most of mill hands interviewed worked for Crown from the 1920s through 1960s.
Fries Textile Mill Oral History Collection
This collection consists of oral history interviews with Fries, Va. locals that either previously worked in the textile mill or grew up around it. Interviews were conducted by Bess Pittman and Kevin Combs.
Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History Collection,
The Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, notes, newspaper clippings, historic district survey forms, a video tape, and a geological survey map related to the creation of the Greater Newport Rural Historic District. The collection dates from 1973 to 2009, although it does include a typed copy of a 1904 Giles County will.
Oral Histories of Technology in Teaching
The collection contains oral history CDs and transcripts with individuals involved in the adoption of technology in education at Virginia Tech. The interviews were conducted by Jan Nespor, and the interviewees include Erv Blythe, Peggy Meszaros, Jesuha Pacifici, and Mark Sanders.
Charles Sears Oral History Interview
Audiocassette tape contains an oral history interview with Virginia Tech Professor Charles Sears, conducted by John Straw, University Archivist. Sears discusses the history of the Virginia Tech Geology Department (today the Department of Geosciences), where he served as a professor and founded the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory.