Interviews with caucasians in Utah
Collection
Identifier: MS 0483
Scope and Contents
The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute (OHI) of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. The people chosen to be interviewed were from Utah's Black, Greek, Jewish, Japanese, Mexican, Hispanic, Chinese, Ute and Italian communities; and were in most cases fifty-five years of age and older. A Caucasian group was also interviewed by the OHI to gain a perspective of ethnic and racial group interaction, but Caucasions were not included in the subsequent photograph exhibit produced by the OHI. The goal of the project was to try to determine if, how, or to what extent each minority culture had been impacted by the larger Utah culture.
This particular series of interviews with Caucasians took place from 1984 to 1988. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the early 1900s to 1988. Included in this collection are the transcriptions of the interviews with corresponding cassette tapes found in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections..
Common themes within the interviews are family life, educational and work experiences, and ethnic and race relations in Utah. Of particular interest are the interviews with four past Utah governors and Stanley C. Harvey's experiences as the captain of a first aid team sent into the Carbon County Castlegate Mine after the 1922 explosion.
This particular series of interviews with Caucasians took place from 1984 to 1988. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the early 1900s to 1988. Included in this collection are the transcriptions of the interviews with corresponding cassette tapes found in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections..
Common themes within the interviews are family life, educational and work experiences, and ethnic and race relations in Utah. Of particular interest are the interviews with four past Utah governors and Stanley C. Harvey's experiences as the captain of a first aid team sent into the Carbon County Castlegate Mine after the 1922 explosion.
Dates
- 1984-1988
Creator
- University of Utah. Oral History Institute (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Extent
1 Box (0.5 linear feet)
Abstract
Interviews with caucasians in Utah (1984-1988) consists of transcripts of tapes of interviews with fourteen prominent whites in Utah including four former governors. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the early l900s to 1988. Common themes within the interviews are family life, educational and work experiences, and ethnic and race relations in Utah. These interviews were done as a counterpoint to those conducted with members of minority groups.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from the Oral History Institute in 1988.
Separated Materials
Audio cassette tapes transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (A0328).
Processing Information
Processed by Janet Everts Smoak in 1990.
Creator
- University of Utah. Oral History Institute (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the interviews with caucasians in Utah, 1984-1988
- Author
- Finding aid created by Janet Everts Smoak
- Date
- © 1990 (last modified: 2019)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu