Bristol History Collection of Oral History Projects
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of digital audio recordings of oral history interviews from all three projects, as
well as a small amount of background information about the projects and interviewees, and transcripts.
Documentation of the first Bristol Borough Oral History Project, 2007-2008, includes a small amount
of background information/flyers about the project, copies of photographs of the tri-fold poster boards
created by students about the residents they interviewed (filed alphabetically by interviewee), and digital
audio files of the interviews in Windows Media Audio/Video (.wmv) format.
Documentation of the World War II project, 2010, consists of digital audio files of the interviews in
Windows Media Audio/Video (.wmv) format, transcripts in alphabetical order by interviewee, a small
amount of background information about each interviewee, including photocopies of photographs and
primary-source documents, and digital photographs of the students' poster boards.
Documentation of the "Our Boys of Summer" project from 2012 consists of digital audio files of the
interviews in Windows Media Audio/Video (.wmv) format and transcripts.
Dates
- 2008 - 2012
Conditions Governing Access
Contact Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library (archive@grundylibrary.org) for information about accessing this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright interests for this collection belong to The Grundy Foundation. For more information, contact the Grundy Archivist (archive@grundylibrary.org).
Biographical / Historical
In 2007, the Bristol Borough Community Partnership organized the first Bristol Borough Oral History
Project, in which 7th and 8th grade students from at several schools in Bristol Borough (including St. Ann
School and Bristol Middle School) interviewed some of the borough's longtime residents. The project was
conducted from 2007 to 2009 and approximately 15 residents were interviewed.
In 2010, the Oral History Initiative Committee organized another oral history project, this one focusing
on World War II. High school students interviewed 13 veterans. At the same time, Committee members
interviewed the same number of Bristol residents who stayed local for the war for the "On the Home
Front" part of the project.
In 2012, the Bristol Oral History Initiative Committee conducted six oral history interviews for "Our Boys
of Summer: Remembering Bristol's Baseball History."
Extent
1 Linear Feet : Additionally 23 GB of digital files
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
From 2007-2012, the Bristol Oral History Initiative Committee organized three oral history projects with residents of Bristol Borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The first project was conducted by Borough students in the 7th and 8th grades. The interviewees were family members and community leaders, each discussing their life growing up in Bristol. The second series of interviews was conducted by 10th and 11th graders, and focused on Bristol veterans and residents on the home front during World War II. The third series interviewed Bristolians who were involved with baseball in Bristol during the 1930’s, 1940’s, and 1950’s. The Bristol History collection of oral history projects, 2007-2013, consists of digital audio recordings of oral history interviews from all three projects, as well as a small amount of background information about the projects and interviewees, some transcripts, and copies of photographs of some of the tri-fold poster boards created by students about the people they interviewed. The collection of oral histories continues as an initiative between the Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation and the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library.
Accruals
Possible future accruals expected.
Processing Information
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project
conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the
largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact the Grundy Archivist directly for more
information.
- Title
- Bristol History collection of oral history projects
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton (PACSCL)
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Repository Details
Part of the Grundy Archive Repository