002: The French Dressmaker (1906)

Archives | Podcast | Oral history | Women's Studies | US in the 1900s

October 25, 2016 by Kim Kapustka 

In this episode we hear from twenty-five-year-old Amelia des Moulins, a French dressmaker and immigrant living in New York City. Amelia came to the U.S. in 1899. Amelia talks about life in Paris before coming to the U.S., the fashion industry in Paris and New York, and her hard work to be a success in a new country. Her story was collected as part of an anthology published in 1906, titled, The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans. The anthology was edited by Hamilton Holt, editor and publisher of the liberal weekly The Independent and later president of Rollins College.




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Navajo Nation Library wants to digitally preserve thousands of hours of oral histories | Danny Lewis Smithsonian.com | December 28, 2016

Archives | Oral Histories | Native Americans

The library is looking for help protecting its tapes

An audio tape from the oral history collection at the Navajo Nation Library (Irving Nelson)

By Danny Lewis

Smithsonian
December 28, 2016 3:21PM

In the 1960s, the Navajo Culture Center of the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity (ONEO) turned to technology to preserve the oral histories of the Navajo people. Over the course of the next decade, the center recorded thousands of hours of oral histories, logging stories, songs and details about life as experienced by many Navajo elders. But while the preservation effort documented priceless details for generations to come, keeping the stories safe is harder—and more expensive—than it sounds.


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VHP at 15: Collections over the Years (Experiences War: Stories from the Veterans History Project(Library of Congress: loc.gov)

The Library of Congress' Veterans History Project is a great project and a wonderful way to honor those who have served. This Veterans Day, take some time to read their stories or consider helping to record the story of the veteran in your life.

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In 2015, the Veterans History Project celebrates fifteen years of collecting the stories of America's war veterans. To commemorate the occasion, here we highlight 15 different collections, donated to us during the first five, ten, and fifteen years of VHP's existence. While these collections vary widely in scope, each fulfills VHP's mission of capturing the stories of veterans in their own words. Whether they were submitted to us in the early days of the project, or later on, these fifteen collections represent a mere fraction of the over 99,000 collections in the Veterans History Project archive--all of which communicate the experience of war. Five Years 2000-2005 Robert E. Cassidy  ARMY Korean War Audio Interview Thomas J. Hudner, Jr. NAVY Korean War Vietnam War  Video and Audio Interviews, Photos Herman F. Monoschein AIR FORCE World War II Korean War  Video Interview Martha Settle Putney WAAC World War II Video Interview Gary L. Villereal ARMY Vietnam War Video Interview Ten Years 2005-2010 Felmers O. Chaney ARMY World War II Video Interviews James E. Frolking ARMY AIR CORPS World War II Audio Interview, Memoir, Photos, Personal Correspondence James Noboru Miho ARMY Korean War Video Interviews Bernadette P. Miller ARMY Vietnam War Video Interview, Photos Lucius Byron Nash NAVY World War I Photos, Official Documents, Personal Correspondence Fifteen Years 2010-2015 Rollins Edwards ARMY World War II Audio Interview Adam Jordan Holt  ARMY Iraq War Audio Interview Kurt Chew-Een Lee  MARINE CORPS World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War Video Interview, Official Documents Elisa Raney NAVY Iraq War Video Interview, Photos Edwin Trawczynski ARMY Vietnam War Memoir, Photos, Personal Corredspondence
Other Collections of Interest: Robert Andraski Jason Brown Francis Galligan Henry Heimlich Jack Jones Laura J. Brautigam June Elizabeth McIntosh Logan Mehl-Laituri	Search the Veterans Database: Search by Keyword Browse by Last Name Browse by War/Military Branch Browse by State of Residence Browse by Race/Ethnicity   View ALL Stories: View ALL Stories in an Alphabetical List View ALL Stories by Theme
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