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Shawneetown Bank Project: Memories of a Bank: Memoirs

 Collection — Container: Tapes et al
Identifier: O-SH26

Scope and Contents

Memories of a Bank is a published compilation of abridged oral histories and a documentary inventory relating to the Shawneetown Bank, prepared by Sangamon State University under contract with the Illinois Department of Conservation. The narrators discuss the structure and furnishings of the former State Bank of Illinois, its history, its personnel, the town of Shawneetown and the disastrous 1937 Ohio River flood.

24 tapes, 3 vols., 839 pp. Interviews by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1978 OPEN: see individual names for legal releases. See individual collateral files. See individual names for complete transcripts. See the entry for the Shawneetown Bank Project for links to abstracts. For tapes see individual names.

Bennett, Dr. Basil, 1 tape, 25 min., 13 pp. Caldwell, Fred 1 tape, 68 min., 42 pp. Chamberlain, Joe 1 tape, 51 min., 37 pp. Coffee, Frances 1 tape, 31 min., 20 pp. Dunn, Catherine 1 tape, 58 min., 28 pp. Dyhrkopp, Frances 1 tape, 74 min., 24 pp. Eswine, Carl 1 tape, 62 min., 29 pp. Galt, James 1 tape, 35 min., 18 pp. Harmon, Pauline 1 tape, 65 min., 32 pp. Hatfield, Doris 1 tape, 91 min., 36 pp. Hayes, Hazel 1 tape, 25 min., 15 pp. Holloway, Millard 1 tape, 37 min., 23 pp. Hubele, Edna 1 tape, 42 min., 26 pp. Hundley, Paul 1 tape, 40 min., 22 pp. Lawler, Elizabeth 1 tape, 38 min., 23 pp. Lawler, Lucille 2 tapes, 135 min., 44 pp. Logsdon, Catherine 1 tape, 45 min., 29 pp. Oldham, Clarence 1 tape, 90 min., 22 pp. Schwander, Myrtle 1 tape, 45 min., 33 pp. Sherman, Mary 1 tape, 90 min., 42 pp. Speer, Ethel 1 tape, 45 min., 21 pp. Taylor, Elizabeth 1 tape, 90 min., 41 pp. Terry, Paul 1 tape, 47 min., 35 pp. Wright, Pauline 1 tape, 45 min., 22 pp.

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Extent

49.00 items

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Interview and memoir in the Illinois Digital Archives.

http://www.idaillinois.org/u?/uis,4655

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Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

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