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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 51:59
In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 18:31
Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 1
Labor Day is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on some of the memories we have from working hard, being with family, or learning somethi...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 7
Tom Germano speaks with his son, Thomas, about the Great Postal Strike of 1970, and his love of delivering the mail.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 1
If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 02:37
Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Phil Mello has been photographing New Bedford’s working waterfront for over 40 years. He started as an amateur, documenting the inner world of the ...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 09:24
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
It's Fiber Arts Week on Area Voices! Producer Alauna Yust took a felting class with fiber artist Patty Lovegreen, and a table full of budding artis...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 06:19
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, KUER and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 10
Technology and a lack of demand changed blacksmithing into a specialized trade.
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 03:05
The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 07:46
- Added: Jan 20, 2006
- Length: 07:33
Rocco Migliorelli talks about farming in the Bronx during the 1930's, 40's and 50's
Bought by WFUV and The Nature Podcast
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 4
A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson
- Added: May 24, 2004
- Length: 09:01
- Added: Mar 29, 2004
- Length: 09:00
