<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<itemContainer xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://resourcespacec2.svsu.edu/omeka/items/browse?output=omeka-xml&amp;page=10" accessDate="2026-04-27T22:10:02+00:00">
  <miscellaneousContainer>
    <pagination>
      <pageNumber>10</pageNumber>
      <perPage>25</perPage>
      <totalResults>227</totalResults>
    </pagination>
  </miscellaneousContainer>
  <item itemId="9" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="11">
        <src>https://resourcespacec2.svsu.edu/omeka/files/original/22f50964ac2e8dbcef4b8e227c0e9042.mp3</src>
        <authentication>4ae2ec60bfc1fa4f95b307701caa611e</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="3">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="74">
                  <text>Saginaw Valley Region Oral History Collection</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="40">
              <name>Date</name>
              <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="75">
                  <text>1972-1987</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="76">
                  <text>Saginaw Valley State University</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="39">
              <name>Creator</name>
              <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="77">
                  <text>Jezierski, John Vincent</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="95">
                  <text>The Saginaw Valley Oral History project collection was created and donated to the university by Dr. John V. Jezierski, a former professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University. The goal of the project was to preserve experiences of the past in the Saginaw Valley area. Specific topics of interest include the bean, sugar, coal mining and oil industries as well as information on American Indians, logging, sailing on the Great Lakes and life on the Saginaw River. The interviews were collected in 1972-87 by students in a Michigan history course with the aim of making the interviews available to scholars, both amateur and professional. The interviews were originally recorded on audiocassette and later transferred to digital audio format.</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="2249">
                  <text>&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The content of oral history interviews is personal, experiential, and interpretive because, by its nature, it relies on the memories, perceptions and opinions of individuals.  Interviews should not be understood as statements of fact or opinion endorsed by Saginaw Valley State University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="47">
              <name>Rights</name>
              <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="96">
                  <text>The contents of this collection are the property of Saginaw Valley State University.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="4">
      <name>Oral History</name>
      <description>A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="2">
          <name>Interviewer</name>
          <description>The person(s) performing the interview</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="109">
              <text>Annette A. Diebel</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="3">
          <name>Interviewee</name>
          <description>The person(s) being interviewed</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="110">
              <text>Benjamin R. Boutell</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="7">
          <name>Original Format</name>
          <description>The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="111">
              <text>Audiocassette</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="11">
          <name>Duration</name>
          <description>Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="112">
              <text>00:23:45</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="4">
          <name>Location</name>
          <description>The location of the interview</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2291">
              <text>Bay City, MI</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="97">
                <text>Benjamin Boutell Oral History Interview</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="40">
            <name>Date</name>
            <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="98">
                <text>March 14, 1973</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="49">
            <name>Subject</name>
            <description>The topic of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="99">
                <text>Shipping</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="100">
                <text>Shipping companies (Marine transportation)</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="101">
                <text>Bay City (Mich.)&#13;
</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="102">
                <text>Saginaw River Valley (Mich.)&#13;
</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="1546">
                <text>Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="103">
                <text>Interview devoted to Saginaw Shipping.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="104">
                <text>A-049</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="105">
                <text>Saginaw Valley State University</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="39">
            <name>Creator</name>
            <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="106">
                <text>Boutell, Benjamin R.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="42">
            <name>Format</name>
            <description>The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="107">
                <text>MP3</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="108">
                <text>English</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="6">
        <name>Bay City (Mich.)</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="12">
        <name>Saginaw River Valley (Mich.)</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="10">
        <name>Shipping</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="11">
        <name>Shipping companies (Marine transportation)</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="60">
        <name>Shipping--Great Lakes (North America)</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="8" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="10">
        <src>https://resourcespacec2.svsu.edu/omeka/files/original/5f89cb6a5ad17087d5c6aab2c2a34589.mp3</src>
        <authentication>03d65cf1df43cad13c34f3e56ecd6fc2</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="3">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="74">
                  <text>Saginaw Valley Region Oral History Collection</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="40">
              <name>Date</name>
              <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="75">
                  <text>1972-1987</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="76">
                  <text>Saginaw Valley State University</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="39">
              <name>Creator</name>
              <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="77">
                  <text>Jezierski, John Vincent</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="95">
                  <text>The Saginaw Valley Oral History project collection was created and donated to the university by Dr. John V. Jezierski, a former professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University. The goal of the project was to preserve experiences of the past in the Saginaw Valley area. Specific topics of interest include the bean, sugar, coal mining and oil industries as well as information on American Indians, logging, sailing on the Great Lakes and life on the Saginaw River. The interviews were collected in 1972-87 by students in a Michigan history course with the aim of making the interviews available to scholars, both amateur and professional. The interviews were originally recorded on audiocassette and later transferred to digital audio format.</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="2249">
                  <text>&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The content of oral history interviews is personal, experiential, and interpretive because, by its nature, it relies on the memories, perceptions and opinions of individuals.  Interviews should not be understood as statements of fact or opinion endorsed by Saginaw Valley State University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="47">
              <name>Rights</name>
              <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="96">
                  <text>The contents of this collection are the property of Saginaw Valley State University.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="4">
      <name>Oral History</name>
      <description>A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="2">
          <name>Interviewer</name>
          <description>The person(s) performing the interview</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="91">
              <text>Michael J. Kegley</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="3">
          <name>Interviewee</name>
          <description>The person(s) being interviewed</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="92">
              <text>William Defoe</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="7">
          <name>Original Format</name>
          <description>The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="93">
              <text>Audiocassette</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="11">
          <name>Duration</name>
          <description>Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="94">
              <text>00:29:53</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="4">
          <name>Location</name>
          <description>The location of the interview</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2292">
              <text>Bay City, MI</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="78">
                <text>William Defoe Oral History Interview</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="40">
            <name>Date</name>
            <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="79">
                <text>April 5, 1973</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="49">
            <name>Subject</name>
            <description>The topic of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="80">
                <text>Bay City (Mich.)</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="81">
                <text>Saginaw River (Mich.)</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="82">
                <text>Defoe Shipbuilding Company</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="83">
                <text>Shipping</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="1545">
                <text>Shipbuilding</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="1767">
                <text>Occupations</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="85">
                <text>Interview devoted to Defoe Shipping on Saginaw River, (Bay City).</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="86">
                <text>A-050</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="87">
                <text>Saginaw Valley State University</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="39">
            <name>Creator</name>
            <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="88">
                <text>Defoe, William</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="42">
            <name>Format</name>
            <description>The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="89">
                <text>MP3</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="90">
                <text>English</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="6">
        <name>Bay City (Mich.)</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="9">
        <name>Defoe Shipbuilding Company</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="236">
        <name>Occupations</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="7">
        <name>Saginaw River (Mich.)</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="77">
        <name>Shipbuilding</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="10">
        <name>Shipping</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
</itemContainer>
