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Digital materials

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Subject Source: Material Type

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

DC Public Library Archives

 Digital Collection
Identifier: dcpl_archives

Deaf Community Voices in the Heart of D.C. - Signing a Culture Oral History Project

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00041
Identifier: 229
Content Description This oral history project documents the Deaf Community in Washington, D.C. during a time when educational, employment, and recreational activities were limited due to communication barriers between Deaf and hearing people and misconceptions about what Deaf people can accomplish. The project explores how the Deaf Community created organizations to fill the social, recreational, educational, and spiritual needs which were inaccessible due to communication barriers. The project was conducted by...
Dates: 2022-08-10

South of U Street Oral History Project

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00009
Identifier: OHP025
Content Description

Digital audio recordings and PDF transcripts of 10 oral history interviews recorded by Shaw Library staff to document the Shaw neighborhood and the effect of the 1968 riots on its community.

Dates: 2012

U Street Oral History Project

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00005
Identifier: OHP026
Content Description

Digital recordings of 20 oral history interviews by DCPL Special Collections Librarian Kelly Navies and related digital documents. 18 of the recordings are about the U Street cultural corridor. All of the U Street interviews have logs and two of them also have transcripts. Digital photographs and other documents were also included in the U Street transfer. There is also an interview with DC author Edward P. Jones, in 2 parts.

Dates: 2014