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- Collection: Saginaw Valley Region Oral History Collection
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Hollis Townsend Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the working and living condition of Mr. Townsend as a black man from 1927-1975.
Inez Thayer Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to being a housewife and why she moved to Vassar, Michigan from Detroit.
J.A. Ippel Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Saginaw Business, the development of West-Side Saginaw, and the J.W. Ippel Co.
Jesse Falk Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the making of baskets.
John A. Roberts Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to railroads in the Saginaw area.
John Ducham Oral History Interview
John Ducham was a retired firefighter from the Saginaw Fire Department. The interview includes his recollections of early work conditions of firefighters as well as various fire incidents that occurred in Saginaw.
John L. Riegle Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the history of Flint schools.
John Prior Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the local union 12075 of the United Steelworkers of America in Midland, MI. Topics of discussion include the local union, John Prior's function in the union and his opinion of its present and future existence.
John Reid Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to a range of topics including early transportation and travel, politics, economics, religion, lumbering and American Indian life.
John Schmidt Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the mining of coal in Bay County.
John Schmidt Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to coal mining, river traffic, farm work, street cars.
Kathryn Lewis Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the early school system and development of Freeland, origin to present.
Kenneth B. Forbes Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Mr. Forbes's 34 years as manager of the Old Saginaw Auditorium.
Lena Schiesswohl Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to her life in Germany, her experience immigrating from Germany to the United States and her and her husband's life in Saginaw.
Leonard Reed Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to American Indians, logging, early cars and the town of Sanford.
Loren S. Armbruster Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to The Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association in Saginaw, Michigan.
Madge Bliss Alger Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the founding of International Business College of Saginaw, the establishment of Bliss Publishing Co., and the big fire of May 7, 1891.
Max Key Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the Dow Chemical Company, Midland.
Max P. Heavenrich Jr. Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to family history, individual history, and Saginaw.
Mrs. John Carroll Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to history of Bay City as early as the great South-end fire of July, 1892.
Nansen DiMercurio Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the following topics: Italian immigrant parents in Saginaw at the turn of the century; life as a boy in the second decade of the 20th century; what Saginaw was like during the 1920's and 1930's; prohibition and its repeal.
Norman Osborne Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the contribution of black people in the formation of the Saginaw area.
Olaf Goodell Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to local Mayville History and lumbering.
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.…
Perry Riddick Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the Saginaw Historical Society.