Broome County Oral History project
Scope and Contents
The Broome County Oral History project was conceived and administered by the Senior Services Unit of the Office for the Aging. Funding for this project was provided by the Broome County Office of Employment and Training (C.E.T.A.), with additional funding from the Senior Service Unit of the National Council on Aging and Broome County government.
The aim of this project was two-fold – to obtain historical information about life in Broome County, which would be useful for researchers and teachers, and to provide employment for older persons of a limited income. The oral history interviews were obtained between November 1977 and September 1978 and were conducted by five interviewers under the supervision of the Action for Older Persons Program.
The collection contains 75 interviews and transcriptions, 77 cassette tapes, and a subject index containing names of individuals associated with specific subject terms. One transcribed interview does not have an accompanying audio recording.
In 2005 Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections Department participated in the New York State Audiotape Project, which undertook preservation reformatting of the audiotapes and the creation of compact discs for patron use.
Several interviews do not have release forms and cannot be reviewed.
Copies of the recordings and transcriptions cannot be made.
Transcriptions and streaming audio are available via Omeka.
Dates
- Creation: 1977 - 1978
Extent
3 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection includes audio recordings and transcriptions from the Broome County Oral History project, conceived and administered by the Senior Services Unit of the Broome County Office for the Aging between November 1977 and September 1978. Transcriptions and streaming audio are available via Omeka.
Arrangement of Materials
Audio recordings and transcriptions are arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee.
CDs are located in Media Cabinet 3, Drawer 1. Original cassettes are located with the transcriptions.
Index
References in this index are made to those who were interviewed in this oral history project.
Subject: Person(s) Interviewed
African-Americans: Alston, Fawcett, Oldwine, Payne
Airplanes: Hanifin, Johnson
Amahami Girl Scout Camp: Titchener
American Legion: Benson
Ansco: Alston, Templeton
Apples: Brotzman
Austrians: Warski
Automobiles: Isenburg
Aviation (all phases): Link
Barbershop: DiVittori
Baseball Player : Hallahan
Bakeries: Buran, Spisak
Beauty Parlor: Borsuk
Banking: Kuryla
Bee keeping: Brotzman
Bennett, Fred & Family: Land
Bicentennial of Revolution: Woodward
Binghamton City Engineer: McNamara
Binghamton Public Library: Fawcett
Black Powder Blasting: Gruss
Boiler Fireman: Warski
Bolshevism: Buran
Bootlegging (see also Prohibition): Buran, Celeste
Boxing: Polansky
Boys & Girls Club: Boyd
Brock, Billy: Link
Broome County Airport: Macko
Broome County Treasurer: Chase
Broom Technical Community College: Macko
Canal: Brotzman
Castle Creek: Cole
Catholic Creek: Caganek
Chamerlain, Clarence: Link
Chenango Valley Medical Group: Smith
Chicago Fire: Tice
Children’s Activities: Isenburg
China Painting: Planck
Christmas: Isenburg
Christmas, Slovak: Caganek
Churches:
St. Cyril & Methodius: Caganek
St. Marys: Shaughnessy
St. Marys (Kirkwood): Tice
St. Marys Assumption: Gallo
St. Michaels: Macko
Russian Orthodox: Perhach
Trinity M.E. Zion: Fawcett
Church Bells: Buran
Church Life: Bell
Cibulsky, Mike: Buran
Cider Mill: A. Cinotti
Cigar Factories: Goida, Gruss, Hanifin, Planck, Spisak, Shaughnessy
Citizenship Papers: Land
Clothing Factory Fire: Gruss
Clown: Bloomer
Coal Mining: Gruss, Warski
Cooking School, Radio: Burbank
Corbettsville: Ayres
Cortland Airport: Link
Dairy Farming: Brotzman
Dancing (all phases): Goundrey
Dancing Classes: Land, Templeton
Davis, Ben: Brotzman
Davis Street & Family: Land
Depression: Boyd
Diamond Business: Rider
Disabled Veterans: Reese
Discrimination: Fawcett, Oldwine, Payne
Disease Control: Sargent
Doctor, Early: Kern
Dolls: Quick
Drowning of Little Girl: Ondrako
Druggist: Perhach
Earhart, Amelia: Link
Eastern Customs: Sedlak
Eastern Europeans: Buran
Ely, S. Mills: Jewell
Endicott: D. Cinotti, Levine, Tedeschi, Weaver
Endicott-Johnson Workers: A.Cinotti, Goida, Gruss, Levine, Sedlak, Spisak, Weaver
Extension Service: Bowers, Brotzman
Farm Bureau: Brotzman
Farm Life: Ayres, Brotzman, Cole, Fenson, Isenburg,Tice
Farm Machinery: Brotzman
Fire Engine Horses: Keeney
Fishing Hole: Alston
Floods: Caganek
Food Quality Control: Ayres
Football: McNamara
Funeral Parlor: Parsons
Gallo Family: Gallo, Kuryla
Games, Children: D. Cinotti
Garner, Earl: Stewart
Gas Station- Blittszen: Gallagher
Genealogy: Woodward
Girl Scout Council: Titchener
Girls Clubs: Boyd
Glass Blowing: Macko
Glove Factory: Sovik
Goodman, Benny: Stewart
Grange: Brotzman
Grocery Business: Kurlya, Tedeschi
Gypsies: Isenburg
Hawleyton: Bell
Health Clinics: Boyd
Health Officer: Sargent
Highway Superintendent: Cole
Historians: Woodward
Home Economics: Burbank
Hospitals: Benson, Burns
Hotchkiss Boarding House: Rider
Hotchkiss Family, Windsor: English
Hotchkiss, Jed: English
House Building: Maxian,Warski
Housing Authority: Titchener
Husking Bees: Isenburg
IBM: Spisak, Warski
Ice Man: Buran
Immigration: Buran, A&D Cinotti, Dryja, Harendza, Hladik, Kern, Kinnane, Levine, Macko, Riggins, Sedlak, Sovik, Tice,Warski
Immigration Marriages: Buran
Insurance Salesman: Sedlak
Irish: Tice
Italians: A. Cinotti, Gallo, Kuryla, Sedlak, Tedeschi
Jewelers: Levine, Rider
Jewish: Levine
Johnson City: Kern, McAvoy
Johnson, George F.: Levine, Sedlak
Junior League: Titchener
Kilmer, Willis Sharpe: Gruss, Hanifin
Kindergarten Teacher Training: Kern
Kress, Charles: Hanifin
Ku Klux Klan: Payne
Ladies Patronesses - Ladies of Charity: Planck
Lamp Lighter: Land
Languages: Levine, Sedlak
League of Women Voters: Titchener
Lebanese: Freije
Lestershire: Kern, Weaver
Lighting: Land
Lincoln Hotel: Macko
Lincoln Avenue: Land
Lindberg, Charles: Link
Link Aviation: Johnson, Link
Lions Club: Benson
Lowell Business School: Jewell
Market Gardening: Brotzman
Masonic- Member: Levine
Medicine: Benson, Burns, Ross, Sargent, Smith
Medicine - Comparison of Old & New: Sargent
Medicine - SUNY Clinical Campus: Smith
Mexicans: Smith
Milk Delivery: Dryja
Motorcycles: Jewell
Moving Business: Payne
Music - Dixie Jazz: Alston
Vocal & Organ: Harendza
Accordion & Harmonica: Maxian
Bass Violin: Stewart
National Guard: Celeste
Navy Commander: Macko
Nursing Profession: Bower, Keeney, Shaughnessy
Paper Mill: Warksi
Pasteurized Milk: Jewell
Peat Bog: Isenburg
Pediatrician: Burns
Penicillin & Sulfa: Smith, Burns
Pennsylvania Dutch: Keeney
Pentecost (troitsa) Custom: Fenson
Photography: Alston
Pickle Factory: Jewell
Pine Street Life: Hanifin
Poetry: Bell
Police Chief & Police Life: Hanifin
Polio: Smith
Polish: Dryja
Politics: Macko,Tedeschi,Titchener
Press Building: kuryla
Prices: Land
Privy, Outdoor: Keeney
Produce: Keeney
Prohibition (see also bootlegging): Hanafin
Public Health: Bower
Quick, Tom: Quick
Radio - WNBF: Burbank
Rando, Joe: Buran
Religious Faith: Spisak
Religious Shop/Frames: Riggins
Recreation Park: Land
Restaurants: Buran, Celeste
Rockettes: Goundrey
Ross, Dr. Mary: Gruss
Ross Park: Land
Russians: Buran, Warski
Russian Jews: Levine
Ryznar, Peter: Dryja
Santa Clause: Bloomer
Saratoga Terrace Apartment: Titchener
Schemling, Max: Polansky
School Director: Smith
Schools, Chenango Valley: Bower
School, Oak Street: Jewell
Schools: Isenburg, Cole, Land
Schools, Catholic: Caganek
Sewers in Binghamton: McNamara
Sharkey, Jack: Polansky
Shoe Salesman: Sedlak
Sheppe, Joe: Polansky
Shrines: Benson
Slovaks: Caganek, Harendza, Macko
Smith, Margaret Chase: Titchener
Social Services: Oldwine
State Hospital, Volunteer Entertainment: Templeton
Steamship Agency: Kuryla
Stewart, “Slam”: Stewart
Stickley Furniture: Hanifin, Stewart
Stone Work: Kuryla, Gallo
Supreme Court Library: Chase
Taxes: Brotzman
Taxes, preparation of: Jewell
Teaching school: Kern, Isenburg, Parsons, Quick
Telephones: Kinnane
Thorpe, Jim: Polansky
Tobacco Farm: Brotzman
Tourist Home: Borsuk
Traveling: Sovik
Traveling Salesman: Rider
Trolley Cars: Land
Trucking Business: Payne
Tuberculosis: Borsuk, Shaughnessy
Ukraine: Buran
Underground Railroad: Fawcett
Union Center: Woodward
Veterinarian: Ayres
Vitanza, Dr.: Burns
Walker, Mickey: Polansky
Watchmaker: Levine, Rider
Welfare: Borsuk, Boyd, Burns
Women in Business: Fenson, Freije
Women in Medicine: Smith
Women in Politics: Elwood, Titchener
World War I Work: Kern
World War II Bomber: Titchener
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Author
- Yvonne Deligato
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections Repository