Danbury Remembers, Conversations With a Community : Danbury History Project Oral Histories.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains interviews with persons raging in age roughly from 50 to 90. There are 11 interviews conducted with 10 interviewees recorded on cassette. Interviewers volunteered for the project and were given training by Meg Moughan at the WCSU Archives. Description of the oral histories was contructed by the interviewer with guidelines provided by the Archives. Interviewees were chosen at random. Interviews contain reflections on life of working people from the 1930s to the present. Transcripts, where they exist, are linked to from the inventory.
Dates
- Creation: 2002-2004
Creator
- Danbury History Project (Organization)
Access Restrictions
Open for research without restrictions.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:
Ruth A. Haas Library
Archives and Special Collections
181 White Street
Danbury, CT 06810
Phone: 203-837-8992
E-mail: stevensb@wcsu.edu
Historical/Biographical Note
Danbury Remembers – Conversations With a Community was part of the Danbury History Project designed to aid with curriculum revision in the Danbury public schools, centralize historical resources, and develop an oral history program that described Danbury's evolution into the city it is today.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Oral histories from the Danbury Remembers project. The goal of the project was to record a series of oral history interviews with various present and past residents of Danbury.
Arrangement
Item are arranged alphabetically.
The tapes are grouped into 1 series:
Missing Title
- Inventory
Provenance
Histories collected by the Archives between 2002-2004
General Physical Description note
no content
Subject
- Enke, Anna. (Person)
- Don, Cal. (Person)
- Fusco, Sharon. (Person)
- Friedman, Sylvia. (Person)
- Hollander, Janet -- Interviewer. (Person)
- Hermann, Beatrice -- Interviewer. (Person)
- Leahy, John W. (Person)
- Johnson, Dorothy. (Person)
- Moody, Marilyn. (Person)
- London, Nancy -- Interviewer. (Person)
- Parkhurst, Doug. (Person)
- Moody, Ted. (Person)
- Ruderman, Lilyan. (Person)
- Danbury High School (Danbury, Conn.) (Organization)
- Buzzaid, Theresa -- Interviewer. (Person)
- Boyce, Milton. (Person)
- Balmforth High School (Danbury, Conn.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Danbury Remembers – Conversations With a Community : Danbury History Project Oral Histories.
- Status
- Unverified Full Draft
- Author
- Meg Moughan
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Edition statement
- This version was derived from various MS Word inventories, indexes and transcripts.
Repository Details
Part of the Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Haas Library
181 White St
Danbury 06810 USA US
203.837.8992
203.837.8322 (Fax)
stevensb@wcsu.edu