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SANGAMON ORDNANCE PLANT PROJECT Groves recalls her experiences during WWII as a nurse at the Sangamon Ordnance Plant. She recalls the plant medical facilities, job-related injuries, women and minorities in the work force, housing for workers, and dismantling the plant. Also discusses security, transportation, sanitation, wages, and her later career as an industrial nurse.

1 tape, 65 mins., 21 pp. Interview by B. David McCarthy, 1989 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents Grummon, a Springfield attorney and son of a Methodist minister, discusses his parents' background, his own marriage and family, WWII experiences, civic activities, and legal career including his role in an early school integration law suit in the late 1950's. He also recalls his childhood as a "preacher's kid" and his education at Cornell College. He also mentions his mother's experiences growing up in China as the daughter of missionaries. 2 tapes, 120 mins., 34 pp. Interview...

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Guenther, an employee with the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad beginning in 1923, recalls railroad service, changes in locomotive technology, types of work performed, troop trains during WWI, mail service, a 1922 strike, floods hindering service, passenger service, cargo moving out of Galesburg, Illinois, and automobiles on the tracks.

1 tape, 75 mins., 28 pp. Interview by Margaret Klusmeyer, 1974 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents SPRINGFIELD MARINE BANK PROJECT Gwin, employee of the Springfield Marine Bank and the head of its personnel department, recalls changes over the years to the bank and its services. He recalls setting up the bank's first personnel department, publication of The Mariner, his role in the remodeling of the facilities, 1951 Centennial celebration, employees, and student scholarships sponsored by the bank. He also discusses the role of women at the bank and the Bunn family. 1 tape, 90...

Scope and Contents HISTORICAL SITES PROJECT The memoir is comprised of interviews with officials from the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Archives, Illinois State Museum, a former state historian, and other specialists in historical architecture and preservation. They discuss Springfield local historic sites, restoration of the Old State Capitol, Statehouse, Illinois State Archives Building, Lincoln Home, restoration of the Governor's Mansion, and Clayville. Other Illinois historical...

Scope and Contents Hagler, an Illinois State University student during the 1960's, discusses student activism, student reaction to events in Vietnam, Vietnam protest movement, communism, protest music, and the Civil Rights Movement. Also mentions protest leaders, the Youth International Party as well as the My Lai massacre. 1 tape, 90 mins., 27 pp. Interview by Clifford Wilson, 1978 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photograph of Hagler, photocopies of correspondence with U.S....

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Hahn recalls life in a coal mining community at Greenridge, near Girard, Illinois. She also recalls Springfield, Illinois: Old Springfield Hospital; the 1918 influenza epidemic; Harvard Park Baptist Church; and the Harvard Park neighborhood, school, factories, residences, and stores.

6 tapes, 525 mins. Interview by David M. Hunter, 1987 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and a partial unrevised transcript of the tapes.

Scope and Contents PRISONER OF WAR EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR II Haigwood, army infantryman, discusses his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war: pre-WWII enlistment and training; service in the Philippines, Japanese attack on Pearl Habor and the Philippines; combat, capture on Corregidor Island; internment at Camp Cabanatuan and Mukden in Manchuria, treatment and conditions, work in steel machinery and tanning factories; liberation by the Russian Army and return to the U.S. 4 tapes, 287 mins.,...

Scope and Contents BLACK COMMUNITY PROJECT Hale, long-time resident of the Springfield area, discusses her experiences as a member of the city's African American community. She recalls her family history, farm life and growing up in a rural area, Springfield neighborhoods and schools, relations with white neighbors, marriage and family life, her husband's work in the Tuxhorn coal mine, the 1908 Springfield race riot, and racial discrimination. 1 tape, 90 mins., 33 pp. Interview by Reverend Negil...

Scope and Contents Hall, former chemistry teacher at Springfield High School, recalls homefront conditions during WWII. He recalls working as a freelance writer, military installations and prisoner of war camps, local war plants, work as a war emergency sanitary engineer, and the effects of the war on the teaching profession and on his students at Springfield High School. He also recalls the American reaction to Sputnik and its effect on science programs. 2 tapes, 80 mins., 25 pp. Interview by...