First Measured Century oral history transcripts

Collection

Identifier: MSC-010

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by New River Media as part of the documentary The First Measured Century. The interviews discuss the significance of the Middletown Studies.

Dates

Creation: 2000

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Copyright Notice

Literary rights, including copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their legal heirs and assigns. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections. The publisher must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.

Historical Note

The First Measured Century was a documentary based off of Louis Hicks’ book by the same title that premiered on PBS on Dec. 20, 2000. It focuses on the century’s inclination toward measuring everything. The documentary uses social data as a way to shed light on the many misconstrued notions about supposed American trends. [Taken from The Enterprise December 9, 2000]

Extent

0.2 Cubic Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Oral history transcripts, 2000

Accruals

No further additions are expected.

Related Archival Materials

Materials relating to this collection may be found in the following collections in Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie IN:

MSC.001: Middletown III surveys, 1976-1979

MSC.002: Black Middletown surveys, 1970s

MSC.003: Middletown Area Study surveys, 1978-2004

MSC.004: Middletown articles and writings, 1929-present

MSC.005: Middletown Studies bibliographies, 1929-1990

MSC.006: Middletown Studies student papers, undated

MSC.007: Working in Middletown interviews and transcripts, 1969-1980

MSC.008: Indiana Oral History Project transcripts, 1969-1980

MSC.009: Middletown Studies newspaper clippings, 1920-1991

MSC.011: Bureau of Business Research reports, 1973-1974

MSC.012: Middletown Studies Collection unpublished writings, 1922-1990

MSC.013: Lynd correspondence and papers, 1922-1982

MSC.014: Middletown III working papers, 1970s

MSC.015: C. Warren Vander Hill project files and papers, 1924-1999

MSC.016: Middletown Exhibit photographs, 1900-1940s

MSC.017: My Grandfather's Middletown slide presentation, 1982

MSC.018: Lynn Perrigo papers, 0921-1992

MSC.019: Middletown III u-matic tapes, 1980

MSC.020: Middletown Studies magnetic tapes, 1980

MSC.022: Middletown III papers, 1921-1922

MSC.023: Middletown Film Series ephemera, 1979

Processing Information

Collection processing completed 2009/11/17 by Jennifer Morrill. Finding aid created 2009/11/17 by Jennifer Morrill. EAD finding aid completed 2010/01/25 by Maren L. Read.