Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Independence National Historical Park project : oral history, 1969-1970.Scope and ContentsThe collection documents the development of the Independence Natonal Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Topics addressed include: the activities of the Independence Hall Association from 1942; urban redevelopment; historical preservation and restoration in Phliadelphia; the role of Judge Edwin O. Lewis; and the role of the National Park Service. Interviewees address the financial, architectural, and procedural challenges to creating the park
The collection's narrators are: Melford O. Anderson, Roy E. Appleman, Edmund Norwood Bacon, Lysbeth Boyd Borie, Michael Joseph Bradley, Marian S. Carson, Herbert E. Kahler, Arthur C. Kaufmann, Dennis C. Kurjack, Roy Frank Larson, Edwin Owen Lewis, M. Joseph McCosker, Isidor Ostroff, Charles Emil Peterson, Edward M. Riley, Leon Sacks, and Hardy Scott
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCollection is in the public domain
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