Oral History Collection

Details

Title: Oral History Collection
Date: 1976-current
Call Number: OH0000
History: This oral history collection began in 1976 as a project, facilitated by grant money from the Bicentennial Celebration Committee. The collection continues to grow and, since 1984, has been coordinated by the Carnegie Library for Local History. Volunteers conduct the interviews. The interviewees mostly are long-time residents, discussing a variety of topics covering local history.
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Oral histories may be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder.
Format: Oral histories.
Subjects: Boulder (Colo.)--History

Pages

: Oral history interview with Inez Hudnall Nelson, 1976, Women in Colorado : Hidden Faces

Call Number OH0115

Date 1976

Browse

: Oral history interview with Edith Case Bollacker, 1976, Women in Colorado : Hidden Faces

Call Number OH0116

Date 1976

Description Topics include: Family move from Illinois to Colorado in 1900; chores on the ranch; sources and processing of food; scarcity of water; grandmother's arrival and fear of Indians; pie made without fruit; description of house; recreations; neighbors; typical dinners; childhood anecdotes; the Rocky Ford Fair; the strictness of her upbringing and her own marriage, in reaction to parents' strictness.

Browse