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Title: Interview with Thomas Kellogg, 2002-02-15 [audio]
Date(s): 2002-02-15
Contributor(s): Kellogg, Thomas (interviewee)
Description: Discussion includes designs for the Avanti, Starcraft, Wedgewood and various vehicles.
Collection ID: Thomas W. Kellogg oral history interview (Accession 2015.275.001)
Hagley ID: AUD_2015275_ID01
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Thomas Kellogg, 2002-02-15 [transcript]
Date(s): 2002-02-15
Contributor(s): Kellogg, Thomas (interviewee)
Description: Discussion includes designs for the Avanti, Starcraft, Wedgewood and various vehicles.
Collection ID: Thomas W. Kellogg oral history interview (Accession 2015.275.001)
Hagley ID: TRANSCRIPT_2015275_ID01
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Wesley Memeger, Jr., 2020 September 27
Date(s): 2020-09-27
Contributor(s): Memeger, Wesley, Jr. (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Dr. Wesley (Wes) Memeger details his early life in Florida. He describes his family, headed by his grandfather, working and travelling as migrant farmers. He then describes his elementary school, Webster School, and family beach trips to a segregated beach near Saint Augustine.

Memeger goes on to describe his first remembered experience with science, doing pendulum experiments in eighth grade physical science class. He then details his high school years at Excelsior ...
Show moreDuring this interview, Dr. Wesley (Wes) Memeger details his early life in Florida. He describes his family, headed by his grandfather, working and travelling as migrant farmers. He then describes his elementary school, Webster School, and family beach trips to a segregated beach near Saint Augustine.

Memeger goes on to describe his first remembered experience with science, doing pendulum experiments in eighth grade physical science class. He then details his high school years at Excelsior (later Richard J. Murray High School), both his studies and his participation on the football team. He also recounts an incident during a summer working on a flower farm when his mother stood up for him over the objection of the farm's white foreman.

Memeger then describes how he came to attend Clark College. He details various aspects of his college experience, including his dormitory and his chemistry professors. He discusses the impact that his English professor, M. Carl Holman, had on his life. He also details his participation in a 1961 student day of protest for civil rights. He then discusses his membership in Omega Psi Phi and how he met his future wife, Harriet.

Memeger goes on to discuss his graduate education at Adelphi University, including the impact that being a new father had on his graduate school experience. He then details his hiring by DuPont and describes the three other Black chemists who were at the company when he was initially hired. He also discusses how DuPont used a composite sketch of a Black contract employee on the cover of the 200th company anniversary issue of DuPont Magazine.

Memeger then details his involvement on the Kevlar project, describes the molecular structure of the monomer of Kevlar, and lists Kevlar products. He then discusses his patents and other aspects of his career at DuPont. He then speaks about his children and his involvement with the Delaware community serving on the boards of cultural institutions. Finally, Dr. Memeger discusses his life as an artist, from an early sketch of his son to his current projects and his collaboration with his wife, who is a fiber artist.
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Collection ID: Wesley Memeger oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20200927_Memeger_video
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Colonel J. Victor Dallin, 1969 July 17 [audio]
Date(s): 1969-07-17
Contributor(s): Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (interviewee), Davis, J. F. (interviewer)
Collection ID: Dallin Aerial Survey Company photographs (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: AUD_1970200_B58_ID01
Collection: Dallin Aerial Survey Company collections, Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with André and Bobbie Harvey, Session 1, 2017 June 15
Date(s): 2017-06-15
Creator: Hagley Museum and Library Hagley Museum and Library. Library. Oral History Project Office
Contributor(s): Williams, Amrys O. (interviewer), Harvey, Roberta Rush, 1941- (interviewee), Harvey, André, 1941-2018 (interviewee)
Description: In this interview, André and Bobbie Harvey discuss the training, experiences, and travels that led them to the art world, the sculpture business they built together beginning in the 1970s, and the process of bringing a piece of art into the world, from conception to execution to exhibition to sale. They also reflect on the cultural and historical conditions that influenced their decision to pursue careers in art, and the personal and mutual satisfactions of following artistic passion and...
Show moreIn this interview, André and Bobbie Harvey discuss the training, experiences, and travels that led them to the art world, the sculpture business they built together beginning in the 1970s, and the process of bringing a piece of art into the world, from conception to execution to exhibition to sale. They also reflect on the cultural and historical conditions that influenced their decision to pursue careers in art, and the personal and mutual satisfactions of following artistic passion and cultivating community connections.

At the outset of session 1, André discusses his background and upbringing in rural Pocopson, Pennsylvania; the influence of his father, an ardent conservationist; his education at the University of Virginia; and and his "heart-attack job" at Scholastic magazine in New York followed by time teaching middle and high school students at the Sanford and Tatnall Schools, which convinced him to step away from his workaday routine and contemplate another path. Bobbie then discusses her childhood in Red Bank, New Jersey, her education and training, her family background in medicine, her marriage to André, her work as a research technician, and their departure for Europe in 1969 to explore another way of making a life together.

The Harveys then reflect on their time in Scotland, England, France, Spain, and Morocco, explain how they found jobs to make some money while they traveled, discuss Bobbie's photography ambitions and the pictures they took on their travels, and the places they lived while they were abroad. They discuss their arrival in Vallauris, France, where André was transfixed by the work of sculptor Michel Anasse, and where they settled into a mini-apprenticeship with Anasse and his wife, a weaver and pottery glazer, while André learned welding and metalworking and Bobbie learned weaving and pottery.

They then speak of their return to the United States in 1970, and how they began the work of making a go of it in the art world. They started looking for a professional sculptor from which André could learn, and found Charles Parks, who was in the Brandywine Valley to which they had returned. Parks taught André techniques, mold making, and working in fiberglass. André set to work making his first sculpture, a jumping frog. Bobbie returned to her work at the New Bolton Center Hospital for Large Animals in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and the couple lived in Kennett Square, where Bobbie also began to manage the business side of André's sculpting. André's first studio was in a milk shed along Red Clay Creek, and he would work on sculpture at night after finishing his work with Parks. He displayed and sold his first pieces at the Gallery at Centerville, Delaware. The first sculpture they sold was "Pond Dancer," the jumping frog. By 1972, André's bronze castings were also on view at the George B. Scarlett Gallery outside Kennett Square. It was here that Betsy Wyeth purchased "Samuel," the box turtle, and word spread about André's sculpture. The News-Journal began to cover his work. André's visibility increased further, when he was invited to do display his work in five windows at the Tiffany & Co. store in Manhattan. The increased demand for André's sculpture and the work Bobbie was doing to promote it meant that she began working fewer and fewer hours at New Bolton. She eventually became more interested in managing the business and left to devote herself full-time to the business of art. By the mid-1970s, the Harveys had built a following and fully immersed themselves in the work. They discuss the role that Frank Fowler, the Wyeths, and other people played in helping them get their business off the ground.

The Harveys then go into greater depth about the life cycle of a sculpture. André discusses his sources of inspiration in nature, and how an idea becomes a work of bronze, explaining the lost-wax process of casting, discussing the importance of the fine art foundries with which he has worked in creating the finished pieces, and going over the challenges and problems that are inherent in the process, such as designing large pieces so they can be assembled on-site. He explains how Bobbie offers encouragement and guidance and critical feedback on his sculptures during the process. Bobbie explains how she helps to bring each piece of art out into the world, discusses how she maintains client lists and provenance records, serves as a broker when needed for resales, how they built a market and following, their advertising and publication strategy, the process of photographing the work and displaying it in a gallery, the move away from selling through galleries to starting their own studio and managing their own sales, and explains why direct selling was ultimately much better for them than working through galleries.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with André and Bobbie Harvey (Accession 2017.235)
Hagley ID: 2017235_Harvey_session1
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with André and Bobbie Harvey, Session 2, 2017 June 16
Date(s): 2017-06-16
Creator: Hagley Museum and Library Hagley Museum and Library. Library. Oral History Project Office
Contributor(s): Williams, Amrys O. (interviewer), Harvey, Roberta Rush, 1941- (interviewee), Harvey, André, 1941-2018 (interviewee)
Description: In this interview, André and Bobbie Harvey discuss the training, experiences, and travels that led them to the art world, the sculpture business they built together beginning in the 1970s, and the process of bringing a piece of art into the world, from conception to execution to exhibition to sale. They also reflect on the cultural and historical conditions that influenced their decision to pursue careers in art, and the personal and mutual satisfactions of following artistic passion and...
Show moreIn this interview, André and Bobbie Harvey discuss the training, experiences, and travels that led them to the art world, the sculpture business they built together beginning in the 1970s, and the process of bringing a piece of art into the world, from conception to execution to exhibition to sale. They also reflect on the cultural and historical conditions that influenced their decision to pursue careers in art, and the personal and mutual satisfactions of following artistic passion and cultivating community connections.

In session 2, the Harveys reflect more on their educational and parental influences, tell the story of how they met, and discuss the cultural context of the 1960s and the Vietnam War as important influences on their decision to travel to Europe and attempt to create a less conventional life for themselves. They also talk about how they have secured access to the animals and other natural forms that have been the focus of much of André's work. Bobbie's work at New Bolton Center was crucial in getting André access to some of the large farm animals he sculpted. The pair also pursued connections to biologists around the country and remote places around the world in order to witness the hatching of sea turtles or see a monk seal close up. They also discuss how computing and the internet have changed the craft and business of sculpture, from new processes like rapid prototyping to the move toward putting photographs of the work on the web, which was not without problems—the pair discuss the difficulties they have had with knockoffs coming out of foundries in Asia. André discusses his collaboration with goldsmith Donald Pywell starting in 1989–1990 to create jewelry based on his designs, and the differences between working with large forms in bronze and much smaller forms in gold.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with André and Bobbie Harvey (Accession 2017.235)
Hagley ID: 2017235_Harvey_session2
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Wesley Memeger, Jr., 2020 September 27 [transcript]
Date(s): 2020-09-27
Contributor(s): Memeger, Wesley, Jr. (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Dr. Wesley (Wes) Memeger details his early life in Florida. He describes his family, headed by his grandfather, working and travelling as migrant farmers. He then describes his elementary school, Webster School, and family beach trips to a segregated beach near Saint Augustine.

Memeger goes on to describe his first remembered experience with science, doing pendulum experiments in eighth grade physical science class. He then details his high school years at Excelsior ...
Show moreDuring this interview, Dr. Wesley (Wes) Memeger details his early life in Florida. He describes his family, headed by his grandfather, working and travelling as migrant farmers. He then describes his elementary school, Webster School, and family beach trips to a segregated beach near Saint Augustine.

Memeger goes on to describe his first remembered experience with science, doing pendulum experiments in eighth grade physical science class. He then details his high school years at Excelsior (later Richard J. Murray High School), both his studies and his participation on the football team. He also recounts an incident during a summer working on a flower farm when his mother stood up for him over the objection of the farm's white foreman.

Memeger then describes how he came to attend Clark College. He details various aspects of his college experience, including his dormitory and his chemistry professors. He discusses the impact that his English professor, M. Carl Holman, had on his life. He also details his participation in a 1961 student day of protest for civil rights. He then discusses his membership in Omega Psi Phi and how he met his future wife, Harriet.

Memeger goes on to discuss his graduate education at Adelphi University, including the impact that being a new father had on his graduate school experience. He then details his hiring by DuPont and describes the three other Black chemists who were at the company when he was initially hired. He also discusses how DuPont used a composite sketch of a Black contract employee on the cover of the 200th company anniversary issue of DuPont Magazine.

Memeger then details his involvement on the Kevlar project, describes the molecular structure of the monomer of Kevlar and Kevlar products. He then discusses his patents and other aspects of his career at DuPont. He then speaks about his children and his involvement with the Delaware community serving on the boards of cultural institutions. Finally, Dr. Memeger discusses his life as an artist, from an early sketch of his son to his current projects and his collaboration with his wife, who is a fiber artist.
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Collection ID: Black Delawarean STEM pioneers oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20200927_Memeger_transcript
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Ken White, part 2, 2019 June 27
Date(s): 2019-06-27
Contributor(s): White, Ken, 1923-2020 (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Strunk, Nicole (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: Part 2 of 2. In this interview, Ken White continues to describe his career as an industrial designer on a project by project basis. Most of the projects he describes are bookstores on university campuses and military bases. He provides an in-depth analysis of the Boston university bookstore project. He also talks about his work designing Duke University's Gothic Bookstore.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with Ken White (Accession 2023.203)
Hagley ID: 2023203_20190627_White_interview
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Marshall Johnson, part 2, 2018 October 24
Date(s): 2018-10-24
Contributor(s): Johnson, Marshall B., 1938- (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than...
Show moreIn this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than building the product from scratch.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with Marshall Johnson (Accession 2023.204)
Hagley ID: 2023204_20181024_Johnson_interview_002
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Ken White, part 1, 2019 June 26
Date(s): 2019-06-26
Contributor(s): White, Ken, 1923-2020 (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Strunk, Nicole (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: Part 1 of 2. In this interview Ken White discusses the early parts of his life and career as an industrial designer. White talks about his military service, his interest in design and how he learned his trade. He also talks about his early career contacts with Raymond Loewy. White goes on to describe his creative process and approach to design. He does this by describing several different projects in detail.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with Ken White (Accession 2023.203)
Hagley ID: 2023203_20190626_White_interview
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Marshall Johnson, part 1, 2018 October 24
Date(s): 2018-10-24
Contributor(s): Johnson, Marshall B., 1938- (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than...
Show moreIn this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than building the product from scratch.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with Marshall Johnson (Accession 2023.204)
Hagley ID: 2023204_20181024_Johnson_interview_001
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with James Cortada, 2018 June 7
Date(s): 2018-06-07
Contributor(s): Cortada, James W., Dr. (interviewee), Williams, Amrys O. (interviewer), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, James Cortada discusses the collection of computing history books that he donated to Hagley. He describes how he acquired the collection, his philsophy on collecting, and some of what he feels are the most important titles in the collection.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with James Cortada (Accession 2018.227)
Hagley ID: 2018227_20180607_Cortada_interview
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Rosetta McKinley Henderson, 2022 August 6-7 [transcript]
Date(s): 2022-08-06, 2022-08-07
Contributor(s): Henderson, Rosetta McKinley (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her...
Show moreDuring this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her joining the debate team and debating against Barbara Jordan. She mentions teaching Sunday school and pledging at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She then describes participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, attending meetings and hearing Martin Luther King, Jr., speak.

Henderson then discusses earning her Master's degree at Fiske University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied under Dr. Samuel Massie. She describes an incident of eating at a segregated restaurant while with her boyfriend and a professor. She then moves on to discussing her pre-doctoral research experience at Oregon State University, for which she had received a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Henderson goes on to describe her time at Ohio University pursuing a PhD and an incident in which a professor accused her of cheating when she needed to turn a desk around as she was left-handed. She describes her decision to leave the program and her job search, which was aided by a supportive professor. She mentions a job opportunity disappearing upon the recruiter learning her race and the offers she received from Corningware, Eastman Kodak, Midland, and finally DuPont.

Henderson then mentions moving to Wilmington, her research at DuPont, and an incident when a lawyer used a racial slur in a meeting. She goes into detail about the difficulty she faced finding an apartment in a segregated Wilmington and the assistance she received from colleagues. She then discusses meeting her husband, James L. Henderson, and his career as an architect in Washington, D.C. She describes having two children and the accommodations her supervisor made when she returned to the workplace. She finally discusses her time with DuPont Merck, managing the Upward Bound program at Delaware Tech and teaching a laboratory class at Neumann University.

Moving on from discussing her career, Henderson describes being active in her church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the oldest African American Catholic church in Wilmington. She then discusses her siblings, including her sister Edith Rasberry, who Henderson recalls being the only African-American bail bondswoman in the state of Michigan and who was married to Ted Rasberry, the owner of the baseball team the Grand Rapids Black Sox. She also describes her brother Harry, who was a pilot and engineer; her brothers Roy and Brady, who owned a large demolition company; her sister Eddie Alberia, who was a surgeon; and her brother Leonard, who was a butcher.

The interviewer, Dr. Jeanne D. Nutter, then asks Henderson to revisit a few items, including her job as a teenager cleaning house for a White woman, her father's car accident, Dr. Samuel Massie, her patents, and taking a course in heterocyclic compounds at the University of Houston.
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Collection ID: Black Delawarean STEM pioneers oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20220806_Henderson_transcript
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title: Interview with Rosetta McKinley Henderson, 2022 August 6-7
Date(s): 2022-08-06, 2022-08-07
Contributor(s): Henderson, Rosetta McKinley (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her...
Show moreDuring this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her joining the debate team and debating against Barbara Jordan. She mentions teaching Sunday school and pledging at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She then describes participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, attending meetings and hearing Martin Luther King, Jr., speak.

Henderson then discusses earning her Master's degree at Fiske University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied under Dr. Samuel Massie. She describes an incident of eating at a segregated restaurant while with her boyfriend and a professor. She then moves on to discussing her pre-doctoral research experience at Oregon State University, for which she had received a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Henderson goes on to describe her time at Ohio University pursuing a PhD and an incident in which a professor accused her of cheating when she needed to turn a desk around as she was left-handed. She describes her decision to leave the program and her job search, which was aided by a supportive professor. She mentions a job opportunity disappearing upon the recruiter learning her race and the offers she received from Corningware, Eastman Kodak, Midland, and finally DuPont.

Henderson then mentions moving to Wilmington, her research at DuPont, and an incident when a lawyer used a racial slur in a meeting. She goes into detail about the difficulty she faced finding an apartment in a segregated Wilmington and the assistance she received from colleagues. She then discusses meeting her husband, James L. Henderson, and his career as an architect in Washington, D.C. She describes having two children and the accommodations her supervisor made when she returned to the workplace. She finally discusses her time with DuPont Merck, managing the Upward Bound program at Delaware Tech and teaching a laboratory class at Neumann University.

Moving on from discussing her career, Henderson describes being active in her church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the oldest African American Catholic church in Wilmington. She then discusses her siblings, including her sister Edith Rasberry, who Henderson recalls being the only African-American bail bondswoman in the state of Michigan and who was married to Ted Rasberry, the owner of the baseball team the Grand Rapids Black Sox. She also describes her brother Harry, who was a pilot and engineer; her brothers Roy and Brady, who owned a large demolition company; her sister Eddie Alberia, who was a surgeon; and her brother Leonard, who was a butcher.

The interviewer, Dr. Jeanne D. Nutter, then asks Henderson to revisit a few items, including her job as a teenager cleaning house for a White woman, her father's car accident, Dr. Samuel Massie, her patents, and taking a course in heterocyclic compounds at the University of Houston.
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Collection ID: Black Delawarean STEM pioneers oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20220806_Henderson_video
Collection: Oral history collections gallery

Title

Beer and craft brewing oral history interviews

Description

This digital collection contains a series of interviews conducted in 2015 and 2016 on the business of craft brewing in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. The collection includes interviews with brewers and brewery owners from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Additionally, interviews were conducted that cover packaging (canning), distribution, retail sales, and the politics around regulating the alcohol business.

Beer and craft brewing oral history interviews ...

This digital collection contains a series of interviews conducted in 2015 and 2016 on the business of craft brewing in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. The collection includes interviews with brewers and brewery owners from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Additionally, interviews were conducted that cover packaging (canning), distribution, retail sales, and the politics around regulating the alcohol business.

Beer and craft brewing oral history interviews (Accession 2016.287)

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Hagley ID

2016.287

Collection

Hagley Digital Archives, Oral history collections gallery

Title

Cinecraft Oral Histories

Description

Cinecraft, Inc. is a corporate film and video production house. The company was founded in 1939 by Ray Culley (1904-1983) and Betty Culley (1914-2016) in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was one among hundreds of production houses in the U.S. during the middle decades of the twentieth century that specialized in a motion pictures commonly referred to as non-theatrical, industrial, commercial, business and/or sponsored films.

Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)

Cinecraft, Inc. is a corporate film and video production house. The company was founded in 1939 by Ray Culley (1904-1983) and Betty Culley (1914-2016) in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was one among hundreds of production houses in the U.S. during the middle decades of the twentieth century that specialized in a motion pictures commonly referred to as non-theatrical, industrial, commercial, business and/or sponsored films.

Cinecraft oral histories (Accession 2021.206)

Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Cinecraft Productions Films

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Hagley ID

2021_206

Collection

Hagley Digital Archives, Oral history collections gallery

Title

The Mill at Anselma oral history interviews

Description

The Mill at Anselma oral history interviews (Accession 2019.226)

Most interviewees are part of the Collins family (the last residents of the mill), as well as other Chester County locals. Members of the Collins family interviewed include: Horace Collins, Mary Collins Griffith, and John Collins. Ada Gordon and Elmer...
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The Mill at Anselma oral history interviews (Accession 2019.226)

Most interviewees are part of the Collins family (the last residents of the mill), as well as other Chester County locals. Members of the Collins family interviewed include: Horace Collins, Mary Collins Griffith, and John Collins. Ada Gordon and Elmer Matthews are also interviewed. The discussions mainly focus on the mill, how it operated, and its service to the county, but also include numerous personal stories recounting life in early twentieth century rural Pennsylvania. The Pickering Valley Railroad and its station at Anselma are also discussed.

This project was spearheaded by Dr. John James Turner, Jr. and the French and Pickering Creek Conservation Trust.

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Hagley ID

2019226

Collection

Oral history collections gallery

Title

Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Description

The Textile Fibers Department of the DuPont Company was established in 1936 as the Rayon Department, which specialized in researching and developing synthetic fibers for fabrics such as Nylon, Orlon, Dacron, and Lycra.

Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)

The Textile Fibers Department of the DuPont Company was established in 1936 as the Rayon Department, which specialized in researching and developing synthetic fibers for fabrics such as Nylon, Orlon, Dacron, and Lycra.

Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)

The subject matter of the interviews focus on two significant technologies during the 1950s, Nylon and Dacron. Many interviewees also worked on Orlon, Lycra, Qiana, and Stainmaster. Additional topics covered by the interviews include the development of new materials, products, and processes; construction of new plants; changes in marketing and personnel systems; and the introduction of computer systems.
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Hagley ID

2010215

Collection

Oral history collections gallery

Title

Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers

Description

Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) was chemist and inventor of Neoprene artificial rubber and Nylon synthetic fiber. He worked as a chemist in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Fundamental Research Program from 1928 until his death in 1937.

Wallace Carothers (Accession 1994.311)

Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) was chemist and inventor of Neoprene artificial rubber and Nylon synthetic fiber. He worked as a chemist in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Fundamental Research Program from 1928 until his death in 1937.

Wallace Carothers (Accession 1994.311)

The interviewees primarily share stories and focus on their feelings surrounding Carothers’s personality, work, and suicide. Helen Sweetman, Carothers’s wife, is also a common subject. Other topics include the DuPont Experimental Station, life in mid-twentieth century Wilmington, Delaware, and Carothers’s election to the National Academy of Sciences.

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Hagley ID

1994311

Collection

Oral history collections gallery

Title

Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Description

Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley (Accession 1970.370)

While the majority of the interviews are with those who have a connection with the DuPont Company or du Pont family either as employees or inhabitants of the area surrounding the company's...
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Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley (Accession 1970.370)

While the majority of the interviews are with those who have a connection with the DuPont Company or du Pont family either as employees or inhabitants of the area surrounding the company's operation on the Brandywine River, the collection also includes interviews with those who worked in other industries in Delaware during this era such as Hodgson Woolen Mill, Lobdell Car Wheel Company, Hoopes Brother & Darlington, and Joseph Bancroft & Sons.

In addition to documenting work and labor during this period, the interviewers delve deeply into the social and cultural lives of their subjects. Issues related to domesticity, gender, education, childhood, ethnicity, medicine, etc. are among the topics covered in the interviews. Also of note are interviews with a journalist (Fred Reybold) and an early broadcaster (Willard Wilson) who worked in Delaware.

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Hagley ID

brandywineproject

Collection

Oral history collections gallery

Title

Oral history interviews on cultivated mushroom industry

Description

Over half the mushrooms in the United States are grown in and around the town of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, which proudly calls itself the mushroom capital of the world. Beginning around the turn of the century, Quaker greenhouse owners began using the space below their beds to grow mushrooms. They hired Italian laborers, who then started their own mushroom farms.

Today, Italian-American families own most of the mushroom companies in the area, and the labor force has shifted as well, from...
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Over half the mushrooms in the United States are grown in and around the town of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, which proudly calls itself the mushroom capital of the world. Beginning around the turn of the century, Quaker greenhouse owners began using the space below their beds to grow mushrooms. They hired Italian laborers, who then started their own mushroom farms.

Today, Italian-American families own most of the mushroom companies in the area, and the labor force has shifted as well, from Puerto Ricans to Mexicans, as Pennsylvania’s mushroom farms became a destination for migrant farm workers looking for reliable, year-round employment in one place.

Oral history interviews on cultivated mushroom industry (Accession 2018.219)

Image: A box of assorted mushrooms held by Kristine Ellor of Phillips Mushrooms.
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Hagley ID

2018219

Collection

Hagley Digital Archives, Oral history collections gallery

Title

Oral history interviews on Z. Taylor Vinson

Description

For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009) amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history transportation, particularly automobiles.

Oral history interviews on Z. Taylor Vinson (Accession 2013.265)

Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession...

For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009) amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history transportation, particularly automobiles.

Oral history interviews on Z. Taylor Vinson (Accession 2013.265)

Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV)

Taylor Vinson collection of transportation lithographs (Accession 2010.203)

'Collecting Paper Cars: Z. Taylor Vinson's Collection of Automobile Ephemera'

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Hagley ID

2013265

Collection

Oral history collections gallery

Title

Oral history interviews with John J. Raskob family

Description

John Raskob (1879-1950) was a financial executive for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., General Motors, and financier of the Empire State Building. During the 1920s Raskob became active in Democratic Party politics and from 1928 to 1932 served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was an important financial backer of Governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) when he ran for president in 1928.

Oral history interviews with John J. Raskob family (Accession 2004.208)

John Raskob (1879-1950) was a financial executive for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., General Motors, and financier of the Empire State Building. During the 1920s Raskob became active in Democratic Party politics and from 1928 to 1932 served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was an important financial backer of Governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) when he ran for president in 1928.

Oral history interviews with John J. Raskob family (Accession 2004.208)

Each interviewee discusses their birth, education, and travels. Memories of times spent at the various family estates are recounted. Those present on a cruise to Europe in 1950 share their recollections about the trip. Some speak of the death of Bill Raskob, Yvonne Raskob, and Catherine Raskob, as well as John J. Raskob’s funeral. Also discussed are the families views on religion, race, and philanthropy.

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Hagley ID

2004208

Collection

Oral history collections gallery

Title

Pennsylvania Railroad women workers oral histories

Description

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) was chartered in 1846 to completing an all-rail road across the state. Between 1855 and 1874, the PRR underwent rapid expansion and emerged as one of the two largest railroad systems in the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio.

Pennsylvania Railroad women workers' oral histories (Accession 1998.234)

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) was chartered in 1846 to completing an all-rail road across the state. Between 1855 and 1874, the PRR underwent rapid expansion and emerged as one of the two largest railroad systems in the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio.

Pennsylvania Railroad women workers' oral histories (Accession 1998.234)

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Hagley ID

AUD_1998234

Collection

Oral history collections gallery