Saving a Community's Recollections: Takoma Park Oral History Project
Scope and Contents
In 2001 the Oral History Committee of Historic Takoma received a grant from Montgomery County's Historic Preservation Commission to conduct interviews with three longtime residents of Takoma Park, Maryland. Topics include public schools, World War II, architecture, real estate development, transportation, the African-American community, race relations, churches, and recreation in the neighborhood and metropolitan area. All interviews were conducted Eilene McGuckian.
Dates
- Creation: 2001
Creator
- Historic Takoma (Organization)
Conditions Governing Use
The D.C. Public Library does not hold copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission from Historic Takoma to publish or exhibit information. Reproduction of oral Histories without release is not permitted.
Biographical / Historical
Historic Takoma is a membership-based, all volunteer organization founded in 1979 to preserve the heritage of Takoma Park, MD and the Takoma Park neighborhood of D.C. through educational activities and the preservation of historic landmarks and artifacts.
Extent
0.25 Linear feet
1 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The Historic Takoma conducted these interviews in 2001. The transcripts of these interviews were transferred to the Library in the early 2000s. There is no deed of gift for this collection.
Processing Information
After the initial deposit of the transcripts in the Library, the transcript were bound, cataloged and added to Washingtoniana book collection. In 2014, the transcripts were digitized and in 2017 the collection was reprocessed. Transcripts were placed into folders and boxed. All administrative documents were placed into the control file.
- Title
- Saving a Community’s Recollections: Takoma Park Oral History Project
- Subtitle
- An inventory of Saving a Community’s Recollections: Takoma Park Oral History Project at DC Public Library
- Author
- DC Public Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2002
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository