Browse Items (125 total)
- Collection: Saginaw Valley Region Oral History Collection
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Dewey H. Hesse Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the Great Depression, World War I and World War II, Prohibition, and the economy.
Position: 86 (478 views)
Chester Hey Oral History Interview
Chester Hey was a historian from Bad Axe, Michigan. The interview focuses on the German communal colony, Ora Labora, founded near Bay Port, Michigan by Emil Baur in the mid-nineteenth century.
Position: 17 (682 views)
Arnold B. Hickey Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the Great Lakes Express Company. Topics discussed include the company background, labor union transition, and important historic people and events of Great Lakes Express.
Position: 70 (494 views)
J.A. Ippel Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Saginaw Business, the development of West-Side Saginaw, and the J.W. Ippel Co.
Position: 118 (429 views)
Peter Jackson Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to American Indian life, politics, economics and religion.
Position: 45 (545 views)
Harry Jarkey Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Mr. Jarkey's time as a nightclub entertainer at Wenonah Beach Park in Bay City, Michigan.
Position: 15 (691 views)
Fred W. Jaus Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to farming machinery and the history of Cass City.
Position: 129 (416 views)
Floyd Jessmore Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to his experience in the Grey Iron Foundry before and after the AFL Union came in. His role in the union is also discussed.
Position: 59 (506 views)
Bernard & Nellie Jochen Oral History
Social Life (Biography) of Mr. & Mrs. Jochen and history of Saginaw.
Position: 32 (598 views)
Bruce Johnson Oral History Interview
An interview discussing the topic of shipping on the Great Lakes, focused mainly on the Bay City and Saginaw areas.
Position: 26 (618 views)
Carl F. Kettelhohn Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early Saginaw jobs, from lumber yards to the Post Office.
Position: 83 (483 views)
Max Key Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the Dow Chemical Company, Midland.
Position: 105 (455 views)
Henrietta Krohn Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Saginaw's downtown area in the early 20th century. Bancroft Hotel and other large hotels in Saginaw, Saginaw's auditorium, the Castle post office and other department and general stores in downtown Saginaw during that time.
Position: 98 (462 views)
Harry Layman Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early schools in Birch Run.
Position: 100 (461 views)
Kathryn Lewis Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the early school system and development of Freeland, origin to present.
Position: 107 (453 views)
Burke W. Lodewyk Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to twentieth century Bay City, Michigan, its early years to the present as seen by Mr. Lodewyk. Mr. Lodewyk was a past president of the Bay City public school board.
Position: 23 (636 views)
George Loeffler Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to commercial fishing and what caused this enterprise to no longer be a thriving business on the Saginaw Bay. (Sebawaing)
Position: 93 (466 views)
Adelaide Macaulay Oral History Interview
Discussion of important figures in Bay City history, Norman Macaulay's work, the history of Bay City and the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Position: 76 (485 views)
Fred McAllister Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the following topics: how a day went as an ordinary coal miner; a mule's life in the mine; some comparison of Bay City mines to Illinois mines; wages and jobs down inside the mines; safety conditions of the mines and mine injury;…
Position: 83 (483 views)
Harry McCartney Oral History Interview
Interview dedicated to following topics: early gas stations; early housework; progress; the Great depression
Position: 52 (519 views)
Ellis Merkley Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the history of the Temple Theater in Saginaw, and to the Saginaw theaters of the 1940's. Ellis Merkley was the manager of the Temple Theater.
Position: 133 (400 views)
Pastor Howard Mettee Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the following topics: the purpose of establishing settlements in Michigan; comparing religious bonds among Lutherans of yesterday and today; the difference between synods and the turmoil in the Missouri synod; the founding of St.…
Position: 31 (610 views)
Arthur Muehlenbeck Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to coal mining and early events in Saginaw.
Position: 124 (420 views)
Gerald Noe and Harold Stevens Oral History Interview
Gerald Noe was the retired International Representative or Disctrict 10 Secretary for the Pattern Makers League of North American.
Harold Stevens was the retired committee member of the Pattern Makers League of North America of Saginaw and helped…
Harold Stevens was the retired committee member of the Pattern Makers League of North America of Saginaw and helped…
Position: 24 (633 views)
Edna Nuttall Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the history of Standish, MI.
Position: 97 (464 views)