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Miscellaneous oral histories collection, 1956-1997
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Miscellaneous oral histories collection
- Dates
- 1956-1997 (inclusive)19561997
- Quantity
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6 sound tape reels
16 sound cassettes
1 videocassette - Collection Number
- 2019.3.76
- Summary
- Miscellaneous individual oral history interviews conducted by or donated to MOHAI
- Repository
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Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
P.O. Box 80816
Seattle, WA
98108
Telephone: 2063241126 x102
library@mohai.org - Access Restrictions
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Access to the interviews is restricted due to lack of playback equipment and copyright restrictions. Please contact the repository for further information.
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Funding to inventory, assess preservation concerns, and rehouse the collection was provided through a 2018 grant awarded by 4Culture.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
These miscellaneous oral history interviews were conducted by, donated to, or found in the collection of MOHAI.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
Miscellaneous oral histories collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Description | Dates |
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2019.3.76.1: Oral history interview with Eugene Thurlow 1 sound tape reel
Interview with Eugene Thurlow (1859-1957), a shipbuilder and the founder of the Enterprise Brass Foundry.
He was a member of Seattle's Pioneer Society.
|
circa 1940s |
2019.3.76.2: Oral history interview with Dr. Edward C. Kilbourne 1 sound tape reel
Interview with Dr. Edward Corliss (E.C.) Kilbourne (1856-1959), a dentist and the developer of Seattle's
Fremont neighborhood. He was also a leading promoter of electric utilities; he built an electric trolley from Seattle
to Lake Union to bring potential homeowners up to Fremont. After the Great Fire of 1889, he received the city's
franchise to restore electrical power and became the majority owner of the future Union Electric Company I n1892.
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circa 1956 |
2019.3.76.3: Oral history interview with Joshua Green 1 sound tape reel
Interview with Joshua Green on the Seattle Golf Club. Joshua Green was a sternwheeler captain,
businessman, and banker. He started as a seaman and later became the dominant figure of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.
He sold his interests and became a banker. He was one of the city of Seattle's last fluent speakers of Chinook Jargon,
the pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest.
|
circa 1958 |
2019.3.76.4: Oral history interview with Joshua Green 1 sound tape reel
Interview with Joshua Green on "What's the Story" on KING TV.
|
1967 April |
2019.3.76.5: Oral history interview with Amy Tuller Cooke 1 sound cassette (analog)
Interview with Amy Tullar Cooke, who was born in 1882 and moved to Seattle with her parents five weeks
after the Great Fire. She lived in Ballard and graduated from Broadway High School in 1903.
|
1983 November 12 |
2019.3.76.6: Oral history interview with Helen Tremper Lane 1 sound cassette (analog)
Interview with Helen Tremper Lane, who was born in 1884 and moved to Seattle just prior to the Great Fire.
She attended the University of Washington and later the Conservatory of Music in Stuttgart, Germany. She married J.
Richard Lane in 1908; they had three daughters: Nancy, Helen, and Josephine. Mr. Lane passed away in 1921. In the early
1930s, she became involved with the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, now known as Seattle Children's Hospital. She
joined the board in 1936 and later became an honorary board member in 1970.
|
1983 December 9 |
2019.3.76.7: Oral history interview with Dave Beck 2 sound cassettes (analog)
Interview with Dave Beck (1894-1993), a labor leader and president of the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters from 1952 to 1957.
|
1984 March 24 - May 31 |
2019.3.76.8: Oral history interview with Rodie Burrows 1 sound cassette (analog)
|
1984 July 13 |
2019.3.76.9: Oral history interview with Joanna Eckstein 3 sound cassettes (analog)
Interview with Joanna Eckstein (1903-1983), a prominent arts patron. She was the daughter of Seattle civic
leader and longtime school board member Nathan Eckstein, for whom Eckstein Middle School is named, and Mina Schwabacher
Eckstein, whose family owned the Schwabacher Brothers & Company wholesale grocery store.
|
circa 1984 |
2019.3.76.10: Oral history interview with Jerry Solar 1 sound cassette (analog)
|
1986 November 29 |
2019.3.76.11: Oral history interview with Ponce Torres 1 sound cassette (analog)
|
1988 June 17 |
2019.3.76.12: Oral history interview with Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff 1 videocassette (VHS)
Interview with Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892-1994), known as "Seattle's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the
most elegant woman in Seattle". She was born to one of the area's early pioneer families for whom Carkeek Park is
named. She served as president of the Seattle Historical Society (now MOHAI), which had been founded by her mother in
1911, from 1938 to 1965. She also was a founding member of the Decorative Arts Council of the Seattle Art Museum,
endowed the nonprofit Plestcheeff Institute for the Decorative Arts in 1987, and helped raise the funds used to
establish the Museum of History & Industry.
|
1991 May |
2019.3.76.13: Oral history interview with Henry MacLeod 1 sound cassette (analog)
Interview with Henry MacLeod, who was Managing Editor of the Seattle Times at the time of this interview.
He spent 43 years at the publication.
|
1993 July 16 |
2019.3.76.14: Oral history interview with John R. Steveley 1 sound cassette (analog)
|
1997 September 7 |
2019.3.76.15: Oral history interview with Norman C. Blanchard 1 sound cassette (analog)
Interview with Norman C. Blanchard, a third-generation mariner and boat builder. His father founded the
Blanchard Boat Company in 1905. Following his father’s death in 1954, Norman became the president of Blanchard Boat
Company. In the 1970s, he was appointed to the National Boating Safety Council and served as president of the Puget
Sound Maritime Historical Society.
|
undated |
1982.141.1: Oral history interview with Mrs. Harold Hartman (Emma Schmitz) 1 sound cassette (analog)
Interview with Mrs. Harold Hartzman (Emma Schmitz) about her life in West Seattle, 1900-1910.
Gift of Al Cunningham, received in August 1982
|
1982 August 20 |
1989.59.1: Oral history interview with Tom Scribner 2 sound tape reels
Interview with Thomas Jefferson (Tom) Scribner, a timber industry worker and a union organizer. He joined
the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1914 and was a part of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union's (LWIU's)
fight for an eight-hour work day. He was a member of the American Communist Party during the 1930s and founded two
newspapers, Lumberjack News and Redwood Ripsaw. He later self-published the book, Lumberjack, which compiled his
writings, along with pieces by Eugene Debs and other IWW members.
Gift of Kathrine Beck, received in 1989.
|
undated |
1989.77.1.: Recordings of visits with Mabel Wooster 2 sound cassettes (analog)
Evangeline Gray was Mabel Wooster's mother. Mabel Gray Wooster was married to Melvin Wooster, assessor.
.1: 120 minute cassette tape, visits with Mabel Wooster, June 15, 1969 and June 21, 1969 .2: 60 minute cassette tape,
visit with Mabel Wooster, August 9, 1969.
Gift of Gerald Geisert, received in 1989.
|
1969 June 15 and August 9 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Arts--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Boat & ship industry--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Civic leaders--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle
Geographical Names
- Seattle (Wash.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Sound recordings
- Video recording