Robert H. Richards, Jr., Delaware Oral History collection 1955-1981

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Robert H. Richards, Jr., Delaware Oral History collection 1955-1981

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0179

The Delaware Oral History collection was a project of the University of Delaware History Department, directed by Dr. John Munroe and funded by Richard H. Richards, Jr.. Interviews with 317 Delawareans conducted between 1966 and 1978 cover topics including the following: educators, immigrants, journalism, politics, and the University of Delaware, Delaware in the Depression, and the 1950s relocation of Long Island and New Jersey potato farmers to Delaware.

4 linear feet and 1 oversize folder (212 transcripts) and media (252 audio recordings) (11 boxes)

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University of Delaware Library - Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363445

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Robert H. Richards was the son of Henry and Laura E. Richards, of Gardiner, Me. He was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, and educator, born at Gardiner, Me. In 1868 with the first class to leave the institution, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and there he taught for 46 years, becoming professor of mineralogy and assaying in 1871, head of the department of mining engineering in 1873, and in 1884 also professor of Metallurgy. Rosalind Richards, author and lit...

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