The following oral history interviews are available at the University of Louisville Oral History Center, in the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center (UARC). They may all be accessed on-site in the Archives. For information on visiting UARC, see our Planning a Visit page. If you would like to order a copy (CD, audiocassette tape, or, when available, a transcript), please contact Carrie Daniels, co-director of the Oral History Center by email, or by telephone (502-852-6674). For information on pricing, see our Obtaining Copies page. A few transcripts are available online; you may access those transcripts directly via a link in the entry for the interview.
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| Interviewee | Date | Interview Number(s) | Summary information | Transcript? | Interviewer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ealy, William | 8/22/1977, 8/5/1977 | 400-403 | Mr. Ealy, who came to Louisville in 1918, discusses his recollections of politics, journalism and race relations in the city from 1910s to 1970s. Contains information on the African American journalists I. Willis Cole (Louisville Leader), William Warley (Louisville News), and Frank Stanley, Sr. (Louisville Defender); machine politics in the city; his recollections of life in the African American community in Louisville; and his philosophy of race relations. | No | Cox, Dwayne | 210 min. |
| Ebbs, Henry | 6/13/1977 | 339 | Mr. Ebbs was a 75 year old black man, and was a resident of the Parkland Area during the 1940s and 1950s. He discusses his life in Louisville as well as the Parkland Area during the 1940s. | No | Bruggman, Marsha | 14 min. |
| Eckert, Joseph H. | 12/1/1979 | 878 | Joseph H. Eckert's history of families. | No | Eckert, Matthew | 60 min. |
| Eckhart, Frederick | 03/19/2007 | 2007-117-7 | Volunteer for Main Street Association talks about his inerest in the revitalization and preservation of Main Street, 1980-present. | No | Foley, Susan | 46:30 min. |
| Eckles, Andrew J., III | 6/7/2004 | 2004-67-3 | Veterans History Project: World War II, Manhattan Project | No | Dill, Logan | videotape; unknown |
| Edwards, Floyd | 5/14/1981 | 1981-117, 1981-118 | Edwards began his career in journalism in Horse Cave, Kentucky as news correspondent for the four newspapers then published in Louisville. His first job in Louisville was with the Herald before it merged with the Post. After the stockmarket crash and a period with the Hearst chain, Mr. Edwards joined the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. He served as news editor and assistant managing editor of the Times under Norman Issacs. | No | Bobo, Mary | 90 min. |
| Edwards, Monte | 3/24/1979 | 739 | This narrative traces Mr. Edward's moves from Moorhead, Mississippi, to Chicago, Illinois, and later to Louisville, Kentucky. During these years Edwards attended innovating programs in Chicago and graduated from Shawnee High School. After attending Western Kentucky University and Bowling Green Business college, Edwards was successful in obtaining an Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) loan for the Pressley and Edwards Machine and Welding Company. A large portion of the interview traces the presistent efforts of Edwards and others to make the company a success. Edwards is a member of a large extended family in Louisville. | No | Bobo, Mary | 60 min. |
| Edwards, Vesta Trawick | 8/17/1988 | 1990-88-11 | Describes her activities in the League of Women Voters. | No | Owen, Tom | 60 min. |
| Eifler, Jerry | 2/13/1974 | 79A - D | Paris Town - Louisville, KY. Includes individual interview with Father Eifler & interviews with community members. Father Eifler of St. Therese Church in Louisville talks with various persons who relate their remembrances of the area in the early 1900s. | No | Burnett, Dr. Robert | 240 min. |
| Eifler, John G. | 1/22/1988 | 1989-29-56 | Narrator, a member of Board of Trustees, talks about Louisville public libraries. | No | Olympia, Lynn | 60 min. |
| Eisert, Elmer | 10/20/1987 | 1987-75 | The narrator visited Camp Zachary Taylor and following the Camp's sale, his family built a house in Camp Taylor neighborhood. | No | Holmberg, James J | 40 min. |
| Ekstrom, William F. | 1/30/1976 | 139 | He discusses state affiliation at a time when he was serving as Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Louisville. | No | Kindelsperger, Kris | 60 min. |
| Elafifi, Nahed & Madher, Mohammad | 6/18/2000 | 2000-1-35, 2000-1-36 | Refugee interview series (Egypt) | Cummins, Peggy | 120 min. | |
| Elam, Allen | 1/5/1977 | 196, 197 | Mr. Elam was the Executive Assistant to Mayor Sloane. Restrictions: none. | No | Staiger, Charles | 120 min. |
| Elbert, Norbert | 1/23/1976 | 137, 138 | The subject of this interview is the state affiliation and comments on the financial situation of the University of Louisville from 1948 to 1970. | No | Kindelsperger, Kris | 90 min. |
| Elbert, Norbert | 6/13/1983, 6/27/1983 | 1983-62 through 1983-66 | The former Vice President for Financial Affairs discusses his career at the University of Louisville, with special emphasis on the period since the university entered the state system of higher education. See the interviewee's notes on the interview | No | Cox, Dwayne | 300 min. |
| Eline, A.J. (Junior) | 11/6/1984 | 1985-30 | An oral history of St. Matthews, KY. | No | Olympia, Lynn | 60 min. |
| Ellerkamp, George | 3/21/1985 | 1986-103 through 1986-105 | Ellerkamp, engineering executive with Brown-Forman emphasizes the engineering aspects of the industry in discussing the bottling lines, transportation, warehousing, and the impact of the move of the distilleries from Louisville. | No | Syvertsen, Thomas H. | 150 min. |
| Ellinger, Georgia | 4/11/1989 | 1990-122-29 | Active in Actors Associates from its 1966 beginnings. Served as its treasurer from 1966 through the following 11 years. Served as president in 1977-78. At the time of the interview, retired; first woman Vice President of Citizens Fidelity Bank. Ellinger gives overview of the extensive services that Actors Associates donated to Actors Theatre of Louisville from 1966-89, and discusses the contribution of Trish Pugh. | No | Ward, Teka | 40 min. |
| Ellis, Benitha | 9/14/2000 | 2002-1-47 | Civil Rights movement in Louisville | Yes | K'Meyer, Tracy | 60 min. |
| Elmore, Reverend A.J. | 6/15/1999 | 2002-1-45, 2002-1-46 | Civil Rights movement in Louisville | Yes | K'Meyer, Tracy | 90 min. |
| Emison, Sidney | 11/11/1979 | 879 | Family History. | No | Emison, Kathy | 60 min. |
| Emmons, Margaret | 2/15/1981 | 1981-166 | Ms. Emmons discusses her life in Louisville during the 1920s and 1930s. | Yes | Cumbler, John | 60 min. |
| Emmons, Margaret | 11/16/1980 | 1981-58 | Ms. Emmons relates her experiences as a member of an industrial basketball team in the 1920s. These teams were sponsored by their companies for their advertising advantages. One aspect of this is the concept of athletic teams being one part of the industrial welfarism supported by private industry. | No | Bishop, Barbara | 60 min. |
| Engle, James | 12/18/1984 | 1985-53, 1985-54 | A retired A. B. Dick salesman. The narrator discusses life in the St. Matthews area. | No | Olympia, Lynn | 60 min. |
| Entwhistle, Albert L. | 1/27/1987 | 1987-47 | Mr. Entwhistle discusses the flood in connection with his job which assistant to the President of the Mengel Company. This company manufactured mahogany veneers, plywood, woodworking, furniture. Since the first day of the flood the manufacturing company | No | Olympia, Lynn | 60 min. |
| Ephidam, Jaoud | 6/20/2000 | 2000-1-17 | Refugee interview series (Morocco) | Cummins, Peggy | 30 min. | |
| Ericson, Eugene Victor | 4/20/2004 | 2004-106-4 | Veterans History Project: World War II, Korean War, US Army, US Navy | No | Ward, Joseph | videotape; unknown |
| Erlen, Alexander | 1/10/1991 | 1991-129-6 | Born in 1906, Columbus, Ohio. Came to Louisville to become Executive Director Jewish Social Services Agency, 1938. Recalls Jewish geographical and congregational divisions; YMHA (secretary and temporary Exec. Dir. of YMHA, 1942-44); war year; politics in 1930s; desegregation of schools, parks and neighborhoods. Discrimination against Jews; CLU; Civil Rights; Arthur Kling. Resettlement of victims of concentration camps; 1990s resettlement; Polish resettlement, 1964. The family unit, nursing homes, Louisville Hebrew Home (1949), JFVS and Dave Dobson. | No | Pressma, Naomi | 50 min. |
| Erlen, Alexander | 6/29/1977 | 494, 495 | The executive secretary of the Jewish Social Service Agency of Louisville discusses his work with that organization and its predecessors since coming to Louisville in 1938. Recollections also include the origins of Erlen's interest in Jewish social work, his education at the Ohio State University, and the New York Graduate School of Social Work, work with the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville and its predecessor organizations, the resettlement of Jewish immigrants to Louisville, and recollections of such individuals as E.S. Tachau, Charles Morris, Stuart Handmaker, Marshall Bensinger, and Lewis Cole. Erlen also discusses changes in residential patterns within Louisville's Jewish community and the growth of professionalism within local Jewish social service organizations. | No | Cox, Dwayne | 120 min. |
| Esapovic, Ivana | 12/19/1999 | 2000-1-18 | Refugee interview series (Bosnia) | Yes | Cummins, Peggy | 60 min. |
| Etherton, Howard | 9/17/1997 | 2002-6-21, 2002-6-22 | Deindustrialization in Louisville | Hart, Joy | 120 min. | |
| Etherton, Howard | 9/4/1997 | 2002-6-19, 2002-6-20 | Deindustrialization in Louisville | K'Meyer, Tracy | 120 min. | |
| Eubank, Mary Alice | 1/12/1989, 4/18/1989 | 1989-69-9, 1989-69-10, 1989-69-11 | Governor 3rd District of Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs, President St. Matthews Woman's Club. | No | Olympia, Lynn | 120 min. |
| Ewing, Ellen | 3/29/1976 | 264 | Ewing discusses her personal history and her thoughts on women today and their involvement in politics. Ewing is a Juvenile Court Judge for Jefferson County & one of the first women in Kentucky to occupy such a position. | No | Wells, Diana | 60 min. |
| Eye, John A. | 9/11/1980 | 982-984 | Mr. Eye is a retired locomotive carpenter with a broad knowledge of the working of the South Louisville Shops. A more detailed summary of this interview is available on the L&N Oral History page. | Yes | Bobo, Mary | 180 min. |
| Eyl, Arthur | 10/8/1991, 10/15/1981 | 1982-50, 1982-51 | Eyl began his career with the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times in 1919. Eyl rose through the ranks in the Advertising Department of the paper to the position of Assistant to the Business Manager. He retired from that position and the papers in 1969. | No | Bobo, Mary | 90 min. |
| Ezzard, Anderson | 3/14/1988 | 1989-29-10 | Narrator, Library courier (10/1/42-time of interview), talks about Louisville public libraries. | No | Miller, Barbara | 60 min. |