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Friends of School Hill oral histories and images

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Identifier: MSS 0784
Abstract Oral histories and images collected at the event, "Preserving the Past: Gathering History & Mementos of the New London Road / School Hill Community," Saturday, May 20, 2017 and images collected at the event, "A Celebration for the New London Avenue School, One Hundred Years," Sunday, March 6, 2022. Established in 1867 as the first documented public school for African-American youth in the Newark, Delaware, community, the school and its surrounding property were also an important social...
Dates: May 2017, March 2022
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Robert L. Hampel University of Delaware College of Education oral history collection

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Identifier: MSS 0735
Abstract University of Delaware professor and historian of education Robert L. Hampel conducted the interviews in this collection with fourteen faculty, staff, and administrators of UD's College of Education to document the history of the college, which was founded in 1945. The collection comprises transcripts only, with attachments from several of the interviewees. Notable are transcripts of five sessions with Frank B. Murray, who joined the college in 1969 and served as its dean from 1979 until...
Dates: 2014-2015
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Iron Hill Museum oral history recordings and transcripts

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Identifier: MSS 0587
Abstract

The Iron Hill Museum oral history collection consists of 37 interviews (recorded on 59 audio cassettes) documenting the history of the Iron Hill School #112C, which was one of the African American schools built in Delaware with funds provided by Pierre S. du Pont. Additional interviews in this collection document life in the Iron Hill community and nearby Pleasant Valley, as well as education provided in a few other Delaware schools in Hockessin, Milton, and Claymont.

Dates: 2003-2010
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

New London Road/Cleveland Avenue oral histories and research materials

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Identifier: MSS 0642
Abstract This collection contains 22 oral history interviews providing a wealth of information on history and culture of the New London Road/Cleveland Avenue community in Newark, Delaware. These interviews, collected during two oral history projects by University of Delaware Professor Bernard L. Herman and students from 2004-2006, feature members of the New London Road community and discuss various aspects of life in the predominantly African-American community. The collection contains transcripts of...
Dates: 2004-2006
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Robert H. Richards, Jr., Delaware oral history collection

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Identifier: MSS 0179
Abstract

The Delaware Oral History collection was a project of the University of Delaware History Department, directed by Dr. John Munroe and funded by Robert H. Richards, Jr.. Interviews with 317 Delawareans conducted between 1966 and 1978 cover topics including the following: educators, immigrants, journalism, politics, and the University of Delaware, Delaware in the Depression, and the 1950s relocation of Long Island and New Jersey potato farmers to Delaware.

Dates: 1955-1981, 2012, 2020; Majority of material found within 1966-1978
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Delaware Academy of Science. Iron Hill Museum 1
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George Wilson Center (Newark, Del.) 1
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Herman, Bernard L., 1951- 1
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Johns, David 1
Lazarus, Myron 1
Lee, Laura 1
Mosberg, Ludwig 1
Munroe, John A. (John Andrew), 1914-2006 1
Murray, Frank B. 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Newark Delaware Branch 1
Perkins, Roberta 1
Raths, James D. 1
Richards, Robert H., Jr. 1
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Schoenherr, Steven 1
Sharkey, Stuart 1
Stanley, William B. 1
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Toccofondi, Primo 1
Turochy, Angela 1
Turochy, Francis 1
Uehling, Katelyn 1
University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies 1
University of Delaware. Department of Art 1
University of Delaware. Department of History 1
University of Delaware. Foreign Study Section 1
VanDornick, Barbara 1
Vapaa, George K. 1
Vukelich, Carol 1
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