Request an in-person research appointment or get more information by contacting the archivist. See the links within each series below for transcripts available online. Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for research use. S ome materials may be restricted due to donor agreement or lack of release forms. See also the NPS general copyright and restricted information here.
Available release forms are legal documents and are kept in the accession folders. Evison's interview tapes were received in multiple accessions. Hosmer were received as part of exchange agreements to share oral history transcripts. A small backlog of older interviews without transcripts remains. These will be transcribed as funding becomes available. Staff continues to digitize transcripts and post Section compliant versions as time allows. Moreover, this is an open collection and oral history projects and interviews continue to accrue.
To support research access, lists of narrators and interview dates are provided even when the materials have not been fully described. Questions about those interviews should be directed to the archivist. Rights Statement for Archival Description: This guide is in the public domain.
Although some individuals collected oral histories on an ad hoc or park-specific basis in the ss, the first concerted NPS effort to systematically collect oral histories documenting the history of the NPS and its purposes, practices, organization, and objectives was conducted by S. Herbert Evison beginning in , as research for a book he was preparing on NPS history. Hartzog tasked his special assistant, Cornelius W. Heine, with creating an archive for the NPS.
On June 17, , Heine noted, "In order to facilitate and contribute to the establishment of a National Park Service Archives at Harpers Ferry and the coordination of our historic records program, in accordance with the Director's instructions, Dr.
