Audio and video tape collection, 1972-1987.

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Audio and video tape collection, 1972-1987.

Oral history interviews, 1983-1985; concerts and musicals of the Patchogue-Medford School District, 1972-1985; and video tape of lecture at the Patchogue Historical Society on the Patchogue Lace Mill, 1987. The oral histories discuss summer hotels, local business, lace mill, Long Island Railroad, delivery business and kickbacks, organ grinder tales, Ku Klux Klan in Patchogue, childhood, theater, fishing, Indian heritage, estates, Depression, unions, and buildings in Patchogue.

30 sound cassettes, 1 videocassette.

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Long Island Railroad Company.

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Patchogue Historical Society (Patchogue, N.Y.)

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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