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Oral History Interview with Author and Historic Preservationist Grace Hagedorn
Author and Historic Preservationist, Grace Hagedorn, pictured with her husband, Fred Hagedorn. Grace Hagedorn, a Fulbright Scholar, received her education in the United States and in Austria. She is the author of Sam Stoltz, artist and builder, 1876-1952, num...
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Hapsburg Liebe
Hapsburg Liebe
Hapsburg Liebe, pen name for Charles Haven Liebe, was originally born in Greene County, Tennessee on October 17, 1880. He was an author, with a number of his works appearing in magazines like Adventure, Wild West Weekly, Florida Wildlife and...
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Olive Brumbaugh - Orlando's Librarian 1923-1943
The Duties of the Head Librarian
The duties of the “librarian” enumerated in Article IX of the library’s Articles of Incorporation (pp. 3-4) indicate that, in addition to serving as a librarian, the person hired as head librarian oversaw all departm...
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Patrice Florence-Walker Retires from OCLS after 33 years!
Patrice Florence-Walker, manager of the Eatonville Branch retired in January 2020, after working more than 33 years at the Orange County Library System!
Patrice started her career in 1986 in the Young Adult Department at the Main library in downtown Orlando....
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Gregg Gronlund Retires After 29 Years with the Orange County Library System!
Gregg Gronlund began his nearly thirty-year career at the Orange County Library System in 1991 at the Southwest Branch in the Dr. Phillips area, back in the "good old days" of card catalogs and pay phones. Between 1991 and his...
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Oral History Interview with Theoretical Physicist Dr. S. James "Jim" Gates, Jr.
I am an actual research scientist who is still active discovering things that no one else in the world has found prior to my finding them... Excerpt from an Oral History Interview with Dr. S. James "Jim" Gates, Jr. on Presidents'...
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Yesterday's News Today with Tom Webb
Yesterday's News Today with Tom Webb
Yesterday's News Today with Tom Webb, from WORL Radio
These recordings by Tom Webb were donated to the Friends of the Orlando Public Library's Oral History Committee.
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Joseph Wittenstein
Joseph Wittenstein
Joseph Wittenstein presents a Jewish History of Orange County, 1875 to 1925, and early Jewish settlers in Orlando.
Joseph Wittenstein reads from his Chronology of the Early Jewish Settlers in the Orange County Area from 1875 to about 1925, ...
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Margaret Normant Thornton
Margaret Normant Thornton
First generation Orlandoan born in 1893, in her grandfather's home on Lucerne Circle. Mrs. Normant Thornton was also the mother of Betty Robinson and Peggy Petris.
This interview was conducted by Sandra Hinson on April 12, 1975 for the...
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Carl Rodenbaugh
Carl Rodenbaugh
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Carl Rodenbaugh was born in Sumter County, Florida on December 4, 1896. He served...
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Edgar Richards
Edgar Richards
Edgar A. Richards was an undertaker and photographer who came to central Florida from South Boston, New Hampshire.
In this 1975 recording Hatabel Hyer and Mary Alice Nickels discuss Mr. Edgar Richards' four volume scrapbook set of newspaper cli...
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Jenny B. Reeder
Jenny B. Reeder
Jenny B. Reeder of 935 Drew Avenue, Orlando. This interview was conducted on April 24, 1975 for the Friends of the Orange County Public Library's Oral History Committee.
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