This collection contains the recorded interview, included in Series I, and the main transcript, as well as other information, included in the interviewees' individual files (Series II). The individual files are further divided into 2 sections, which provide some structure and summary of the interviewee's life and work. The first section includes "Interviewer's Notes", which refer to the notes taken by the interviewer while doing research for the interview. Research contained in "Interviewer's Notes" comes from newspaper clippings (pertaining to the interviewee's life and work) found at the Pennsylvania Room and/or the clipping files of the Carnegie Library, from Pittsburgh's alternative papers the Pittsburgh Point and the Pittsburgh Forum, or from searches from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Database (downloads from which are no longer free of charge). The primary person researching the interviewees used abbreviations to denote the source of the information: PPG denotes Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Press denotes the Pittsburgh Press. The second section contains "Interviewer's Questions", which usually provide a rough index of most interviews. They often contain notes the interviewer took during the interview. However, some interviewees spoke at length and wandered from the main subject of the question, or the research on the interviewee did not turn up his/her involvement in something which occupied a large segment of the interview. The first office listed for each interviewee is the one covered in the most depth and detail by the interview(s). Interviewees' time constraints kept some interviews from covering the length of their careers. Some of the interviewee files contain records duplicated elsewhere in the archives. The Pittsburgh Renaissance Oral History Project Collection (AIS.1973.24) should also be consulted to supplement material from the SLGA.
