Oral history collection, 1987-1992.

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Oral history collection, 1987-1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543140

This oral history collection contains a wide variety of interviews conducted and collected by the Alabama Society of the Colonial Dames. The interviewees and topics include Colin Campbell discussing a 1922 trip from Miss. to Vir.; Lucy Oliver Coleman talking about her life as a young woman in Montgomery, Ala.; Luther Leonidas Hill on his career as a physician and his talk "Some Background of Montgomery Medicine"; Price McLemore in an interview by Dwayne Cox, Auburn Archivist, providing insight into 19th and 20th Century agriculture in Alabama; Mrs. Price McLemore talking about the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Virginia Scott Martin discussing family history; Mrs. Sidney Mohr giving the history of Montgomery Little Theater and the Junior League; Irene Munro; John Peoples, and others. The collection also includes tapings of histroical narratives by Bradley family members and several interviews on how the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) affected Decatur, Ala. Several of the tapes are of poor quality and are difficult to understand.

1 cubic ft. (3 archives boxes).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6756944

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Warner, Fred, Mrs.

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Coleman, Lucy Oliver.

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Finch, Beverly Bradley.

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Thomas, Rutledge.

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Eichold, Samuel.

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Kennedy, Walter A.

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Bennett, Austen L., Mrs.

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Bradley, Richard Carrington, 1839-1902.

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Junior League of Montgomery (Ala.)

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Hill, Luther Leonidas.

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Martin family.

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Bowie, Sydney

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Mohr, Sidney, Mrs.

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Caddell, John.

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Pitt, Kermit, Dr.

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Cox, Dwayne, 1950-

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McLemore, Price.

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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

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Birmingham museum of Art Birmingham, Ala.

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McLemore, Price, Mrs.

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Bradley, Lee Carrington.

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Bryan, Harry

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Wingo, Douglass P.

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Inge, Eleanor Unger.

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Martin, Virginia Scott.

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Hillhouse, Hugh.

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Montgomery Little Theater.

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Hill, Betsy.

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Munro, Irene

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Richardson, Frank T.

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Peoples, John M.

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Campbell, Colin, 1913-

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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama

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The National Society of Colonial Dames in America was organized in 1892 to commemorate the American Revolution. Its membership is restricted to women who are specially invited and who are descended from individuals who came to the American colonies before 1750. The Alabama Society Colonial Dames was incorporated in 1898. From the description of Oral history collection, 1987-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122543140 ...

Rivers, Laura Croom Hill.

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Davis, Susan Beverly Morton, 1863-1947.

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...