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McCall Library Oral History Collections: Local Communites

A comprehensive list of the Oral History Collections found at the McCall Library

Mobile Communites

Accession # 436-2005  
Dog River Oral History   
Format: Cassettes
Dates Covered: No Known Dates

 

Contains four audio cassette tapes of interviews conducted with people living along Dog River, Alabama. The interviewees discuss the ecological changes suffered by the river. Transcripts of the interviews are available.

Accession # 503-2009  
Dog River Archaeology Oral History   
Format: DVDS
Dates Covered: 2008

 

DVDs and transcript logs of oral history project related to individuals working in Bayou La Batre's fishing and seafood industry.  Contains eleven interviews on eight DVDs recorded in 2008.

Accession # 727-2018  
Blakeley Bluff Oral History Project   
Format: Digital Video; partial transcripts
Dates Covered: 2018-19

 

A group of interviews with residents of the Blakeley Bluff area in Baldwin County. In 2018, USA Honors College students conducted these interviews as part of an Alabama Humanities Foundation grant project to document residents' memories and reflections on the natural landscape and environment.

Surrounding Communites

Accession # 470-2007    
Jacqueline Anderson Matte Interviews; MOWA (Mobile-Washington Band of Choctaw)
Format: Cassettes; Digital Audio
Dates Covered: 1975-2001

 

Approximately two hundred hours of audio interviews, some of which are transcribed. Digitization is in process.

Accession # 352-1999      
Adele H. Stafford Mount Vernon Apache Papers
Format:
Dates Covered: No Known Date

 

An interview with Blossom Haozous about her father George M. Wratten, who acted as interpreter for the Apache.


Accession # 721-2019
Sawyerville Oral Histories
Format: Digital Audio
Coverage: 2019

 

Interviews conducted with four African American descendants of the Pickens family of Hale County who owned the Umbria Plantation there. The interviewer is Dr. Sarah Silkey.

Jewish Mobile Oral History Project

Accession # 729-2020
Jewish Mobile Oral History Project 
Format: Digital Audio
Dates Covered: 2020-2021

 

A collection of 27 interviews conducted by Deborah Gurt and Honors College students with members of Mobile's Jewish Community as part of an Alabama Humanities Alliance grant-funded humanities project. The JMOHP project was designed with three primary aims: to record and preserve early memories of community elders; to document the present-day experiences of new arrivals and younger people; and to share these stories with the goal of encouraging inter-communal dialog. A specialized vocabulary is provided for non English-language words.