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- 1969-1972 (Creation)
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31 oral history interviews. 7 in. reel-to-reel audiotapes with duplicate audiocassettes. Most interviews have been transcribed.
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Reminiscences, mainly of 1896-1926, of pioneer life, the 1920s boom, and the 1926 hurricane. Junior League members and journalist Nixon Smiley interviewed people who lived in Dade County prior to the 1926 hurricane.
Narrators are: Adam G. Adams, Maude Richards Black, Jewel H. Blanton, Janet Watson Carson, Patty Munroe Catlow, C.W. Pete Chase, Charles Franklin Cushman, Dorothy Dean Davidson, James Donn, Hoyt Fraser, John J. Fritz and Carolina Fritz Collins, S.M. Greene, Mrs. Maurice R. Harrison, Frederick M. Hudson, J. Newton Lummus, Alice MacVicar, John Pickett Miles, Stanley Mott, Louisa Oxar, Russell Pancoast, Mrs. C. Boyton Reese, Jack Sewell, Henry Overstreet Shaw, William and Jane Sutcliffe, Cecil Van Landingham, Peter Van Vox, Mrs. Sidney Weintraub, Jessie Weiss, Rose Weiss, and Helen Budge Wright.
Interviewers include Arva Moore Parks and Nixon Smiley.
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- English
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gift
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Additional information may be found at http://historymiamiarchives.org/pdfs/pioneer-voices.pdf
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- Adams, Adam Gillespie (Subject)
- Black, Maude Richards (Subject)
- Blanton, Jewel H (Subject)
- Carson, Janet Watson (Subject)
- Catlow, Patty Munroe (Subject)
- Chase, C. W (Subject)
- Collins, Carolina Fritz (Subject)
- Cushman, Charles Franklin (Subject)
- Davidson, Dorothy Dean (Subject)
- Donn, James (Subject)
- Fraser, Hoyt (Subject)
- Fritz, John J (Subject)
- Greene, S. M (Subject)
- Harrison, Maurice R (Subject)
- Hudson, Frederick M (Subject)
- Lummus, J. Newton (Subject)
- MacVicar, Alice (Subject)
- Miles, John Pickett (Subject)
- Mott, Stanley (Subject)
- Oxar, Louisa (Subject)
- Pancoast, Russell Thorn (Subject)
- Reese, C. Boyton (Subject)
- Sewell, Jack (Subject)
- Shaw, Henry Overstreet (Subject)
- Sutcliffe, William (Subject)
- Van Landingham, Cecil (Subject)
- Van Vox, Peter (Subject)
- Weintraub, Claire (Subject)
- Weiss, Jessie (Subject)
- Weiss, Rose (Subject)
- Wright, Helen Budge (Subject)
- Parks, Arva Moore (Subject)