Oral History Audiotape Collection

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Sample of Audio Tape

Sample of Audio Tape containing the voice of William K. Meloy and Ernest F. Ruterman discussing areas from their life experiences.

Collection area: Arizona and Southwest University of Arizona

Collection dates: bulk 1959-1975

About this collection

This collection contains a wide variety of interviewees over many years. Interviewees include Arizona pioneers and prominent citizens. As well,histories include narrations by pioneers themselves and discuss how families came to live in certain parts of Arizona.The collection is organized alphabetically by interviewee. It comprised a wide variety of topics and subject matter.A brief overview of subject matter discussed in the oral histories is provided with the individuals’ name.

Historical background

The oral history audiotape collection was compiled by Special Collections over the years in order to provide access to various individual’s oral histories located within Special Collections holdings.

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