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Carl Ruffertshafer Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the following topics: coal miners wages compared to other industries; definitions of jobs and machinery at the mine; names, locations, and operation of Bay City area mines; labor problems, mine safety, and health conditions;…
Position: 53 (470 views)
William D. Couillard Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early Saginaw history, St. Andrew's Church, and the Tittabawassee River Boom Company.
Position: 54 (466 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 (439 views)
Calvin A. Campbell Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to history of the Saginaw Valley and Dow Chemical Company.
Position: 116 (391 views)
Dewey H. Hesse Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the Great Depression, World War I and World War II, Prohibition, and the economy.
Position: 77 (444 views)
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.
Position: 62 (458 views)
Edward O'Hare Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to O'Hare's background, his career on the Bay City Police Department, occupations and life in the old day's, and railroading during the 192O's.
Position: 88 (436 views)
Arthur B. Tillock Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to personal data, family background, father's occupation, and lifestyle of the early 20th Century.
Position: 104 (417 views)
John Schmidt Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to coal mining, river traffic, farm work, street cars.
Position: 63 (457 views)
Alfred Ebelt Oral History Interview
Position: 110 (407 views)
Adeline Tagget Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early Spaulding Township and Indian Reservation.
Position: 92 (433 views)
Ralph W. Stroebel Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the history of Holy Cross Lutheran Church of Saginaw.
Position: 96 (425 views)
Dr. William Collings Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Midland and Dow Corning and Dow Chemical Companies.
Position: 57 (464 views)
Ruth Owen Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early Bay County and Midland.
Position: 105 (416 views)
Carl F. Kettelhohn Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early Saginaw jobs, from lumber yards to the Post Office.
Position: 77 (444 views)
Bertha & Mary Ethel Hall Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early life in Hemlock, Michigan.
Position: 91 (434 views)
Harry Layman Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to early schools in Birch Run.
Position: 101 (421 views)
Bernice Swincicki Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to being the wife of a coal miner.
Position: 98 (423 views)
Fred W. Jaus Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to farming machinery and the history of Cass City.
Position: 122 (385 views)
Kenneth B. Forbes Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to Mr. Forbes's 34 years as manager of the Old Saginaw Auditorium.
Position: 79 (443 views)
Claudine Wicks Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the organization of the Hi-Steppers, Saginaw.
Position: 2 (1141 views)
Arthur Rummel Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the changes which have taken place in Rummel's General Store from its early days to the Rummel IGA supermarket of 1973.
Position: 54 (466 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 (430 views)
August Vennix Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the early days of Hampton Township, industries and education in Essexville. August Vennix was the grandson of Geradus Vennix, a Dutch immigrant involved in the establishment of St. John the Evangelist Church.
Position: 48 (485 views)
William H. Rushford Oral History Interview
Interview devoted to the coal mines in the Bay City area during the years 1910-1920.
Position: 108 (408 views)