The Living Legends of Oklahoma Collection
- Title
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The Living Legends of Oklahoma Collection
- Description
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The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) plans to digitize and make available 5000 Audio files including: 1/4" Reel Tape; audio/mpeg; Cassette Tape; CD-ROMs from the Living Legends Collection. The interviews selected will reflect the state's political, cultural, and economic history, span Oklahoma regionally and cover the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century time period. The OHS believes that this undertaking will successfully contribute to the public's access to these regionally significant interviews.
- Abstract
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The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) will preserve and digitize 5000 audio files, for free public access, including: 1/4" reel-to-reel magnetic tape; audio/mpeg; Cassette Tape, and CD-ROMs from the Living Legends Collection. The interviews selected will reflect the state's political, cultural, and economic history, span Oklahoma regionally and cover the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century time period. The OHS believes that this undertaking will successfully contribute to the public's access to these regionally significant interviews as well as represent a number of national subjects, movements and individuals of note. The Living Legends Collection is the embodiment of first-hand history in the words of the men and women themselves. Students from grade school age through post-doctoral status will have a chance to listen to the tones, the inflections, the actual words spoken from the comfort of the class-room, home, office or personal computer. Sample interviews of notable Oklahomans and notable National figures:Senator Phil Smalley - LL 131.A-BSenator Mike Monroney - LL 132.A-B (July 8, 1966), LL 392Senator Robert S. Kerr - LL 487Pawnee Bill - LL 117 (April 12, 1939)Gene Autry - LL 403Woody Guthrie - LL 410Cherokee Strip Pioneers - LL 120John D. Mayo - LL 136.1 (September 1, 1970)Governor Dewey Bartlett - LL 139.3Stanley Draper - LL 126.4Colonel Tom Stafford - LL 132.A-B (July 8, 1966)Carl Albert - LL 167.1 (January 21, 1971)
- Program
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Digitizing Hidden Collections
- Date
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2015
- Temporal Coverage
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1941 - 2003
- Spatial Coverage
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United States; Oklahoma (state); Europe (WWI and WWII); Asia (Korean War, Vietnam War);
- Extent
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1000 Audio Recordings
- Institution
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Oklahoma Historical Society
- Applicant Unit
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Oklahoma Historical Society
- Identifier
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17134217
- PI2 Institution
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Digital Archivist II
- PI2 Name
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Mr. JA
- PI3 Name
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Mr.
- Primary Contact
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Mr. Chad Williams
- Request
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$113,302
- Was Funded
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False