| Creator: | Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory |
| Title: | Indiana Automobile Industry |
| Collection No.: | ohrc061 |
| Dates: | 1982 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 2 Interviews (Audio files, transcripts, and collateral materials ) |
| Abstract: | This project deals with the Automobile Industry in Indiana and why it declined. The interviewees discuss industry within Indiana, concentrating on Indianapolis in the nineteen twenties. |
| Location: | Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030A. Contact ohrc@indiana.edu for more information. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office. |
| Language: | Materials are in English |
| Repository: | Center for Documentary Research and Practice Franklin Hall 0030B 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Business Number: 812-855-2856 ohrc@indiana.edu URL: https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu/ |
This collection contains two interviews conducted in 1982. The interviews are 115 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both interviews consist of audio tapes and typed transcripts.
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
No(s): 82-066
Physical Description: 26 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 115 minutes; no index
Scope and Content Note: Carl R. Dortch, born in 1914, first came to Indianapolis when his father got a job with Marmon Motor Car Company. Dortch discusses the fact that many people either passing through or from farm areas that were no longer hiring became a good labor market for the automobile companies, which were for the most part family owned businesses. He refers to the mass- roduction automobile companies of Detroit as a possible impact on decline. Dortch also discusses the survival of the Indianapolis economy through a variety of industry as well as the economic growth of the city.
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Access Status: Open
No(s): 82-062
Physical Description: 9 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 20 minutes; no index; biographical data of interviewee
Scope and Content Note: Frank Hoke, born in 1899, discusses the various factors that may have had an impact on the fall of the automobile industry in Indiana. He speaks about the history of family owned businesses in Indianapolis, including one his own father began. Hoke also discusses changes in the automobile industry as a whole.
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Access Status: Open