Home

Oral history interview with Herbert Harlan Kaiser : December 22, 1982.

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document
To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

Oral history interview with Herbert Harlan Kaiser : December 22, 1982.

View Description

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

...

Title	Oral history interview with Herbert Harlan Kaiser : December 22, 1982.
Subject	Kaiser, Herbert Harlan, 1900-1987--Interviews.
Description	CONTENT SHEET: Lawer; Title Company. Interview: Parents and grandparents -- Family home located on Monticello Square -- Monticello's first grocery -- Old Methodist Church -- Grandfather coming to Piatt County -- Presbyterian Church in Monticello -- Opera house and movie theatre -- Old Fort on W. Washington Street -- Father starting out at the Abstract Office -- Worked on a cattle train and on a boat to Europe -- Theatres in London -- College at Cambridge -- Law School -- Armistice during World War I -- Monticello hitching rack -- Piatt County Fair -- Western Union delivery boy -- Dighton Bank -- Building the new Methodist Church building -- Presbysterian Church -- Travel in Europe -- Taft coming to Monticello on the Illinois Central Railroad -- Rhoades Opera Hall -- Nell Kirby England -- Dutch Club's Gone with the Wind party -- Lack of hard roads -- Bridges around Monticello -- Jim Smith, last person who had seen Lincoln.
Contributors	Sue Gortner, interviewer ; Jack Brighton, Digital Conversion Project Coordinator.
Date	1982; produced 2005.
Format	1 sound disc (ca. 1 hr.) : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in. + photograph ; interview.
Relation to original	Reproduction. Originally recorded: Monticello, Ill., 1982 (1 audiocassette ; analog ; 1/4 in.)
Publisher	Urbana, Ill. : WILL Radio/Television Station.