World War I Collection
Scope and Contents
This is an arbitrary collection of accessions created in June 2014 to bring together interviews that deal with World War I. There are 31 series in NAFOH that relate to WWII, but 1 belongs soley to this collection.
Dates
- Event: 1914-1918
Conditions Governing Access
For digitized items free from access restrictions, we are working to upload this material (pdfs, mp3s, jpgs) for public access, but it is an ongoing project. If you don’t find what you are looking for here, contact Special Collections (um.library.spc@maine.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on material.
Extent
1 item
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
NA2495 Frank S. Dowling, interviewed by Dr. Eugene A. Mawhinney and Anne Dowling Mawhinney, March 21, 1982, in Machias, East Machias, and Jacksonville, Maine. A series of interviews conducted chiefly by A. Mawhinney (Mrs. Eugene) with her father, F. Dowling. F. Dowling, who was in his nineties and hundreds when the interviews were conducted, talks about his life; experience in WWI; working in the woods; and gives descriptions of various places, including Grand Lake Stream.
Text: 14 pp. catalog
Recording: mfc_na2495_c1572.1_01, mfc_na2495_c1572.2_01&02, mfc_na2495_c1572.3_01&02, mfc_na2495_c1572.4_01&02, mfc_na2495_c1572.5_01, mfc_na2495_c1572.6_01 313 minutes.
Existence and Location of Originals
Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.
Materials Specific Details
Audio files are the primary source material. Transcriptions are the transcriber's best effort to convert audio to text, but should be considered secondary to the audio.
- Folklore Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oral histories Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- World War, 1914-1918 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to World War I Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Thomas Libby
- Date
- May 2018
- 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 Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207.581.1686
