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The Autobiography of Mary M. Barr-Koon, 1984

A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at Indiana University Bloomington

Finding aid prepared by the staff of the Center for the Study of History and Memory with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, 2000-2002

Overview of the Collection

Repository
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Indiana University
Franklin Hall 0030B
601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-2856
Fax: 812/855-0002
E-mail: ohrc@indiana.edu
https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu

Creator
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice.

Title
The Autobiography of Mary M. Barr-Koon, 1984

Project No.
ohrc009

Interviews
1 interview. Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials.

Physical Location
Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030B. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. Contact archives@indiana.edu for more information. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office.

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
Mary Margaret H. Barr-Koon talks about her experience as a woman in academia and the issue of bilingualism in schools. She talks extensively about her travels around the world and the experiences she encountered acting as an interpreter. During the interview she talks about her relationship with her family and her husband's children.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a series of interviews with Mary Margaret H. Barr-Koon, lasting 8 hours, 31 minutes. The interview consists of 9 audiocassettes and a transcript.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
Usage Restrictions
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
Preferred Citation
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].

Interview List


Interviewee
Barr-Koon, Mary Margaret H. September 7, 1984-September 8, 1984 

Call Number
84-029

Physical Description

234 pages; 9 audiocassettes, 1 7/8 ips, 8 hours, 31 minutes; no index

Interviewer
Koske, Mary S.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Toward the end of the interview Mary Margaret H. Barr-Koon discusses various individuals and the impact they had on her education and development. She tells about being in Paris in August 1939 and hurriedly leaving because of the war with Germany. She talks about her experience as a woman in academia and the issue of bilingualism in schools. She talks extensively about her travels around the world and the experiences she encountered acting as an interpreter. During the interview she talks about her relationship with her family and her husband's children.

Mary Margaret H. Barr-Koon was born and raised in New Jersey to parents who were originally from the Midwest. An only child, she traveled extensively with her parents, creating a life-long passion for languages. Her mother also fostered an interest in music in her early childhood. She spent two years studying in France and then spent two years at Vasser College. She went to Columbia University for her graduate study. Her master's thesis was a Voltaire bibliography, a subject on which she continued to work after completing her degree. Over the years she has donated various materials concerning Voltaire to different libraries both in the United States and abroad. In addition to her work as a bibliographer, she has worked as a language and substitute teacher. After her marriage, she moved from New Jersey to Indiana to manage her family's farms. She remained in Indiana even after her husband's death.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • American Association of University Women
    • American Friends of Lafayette
    • Australasian University Language and Literature Association
    • Ball State University
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    • British Museum
    • Centre National de Recherches Scientifique
    • Children's Museum of Indianapolis
    • Columbia University
    • Dickinson College
    • Earlham College
    • Foreign Policy Association
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    • Occupations
    • bibliographer
    • farmer
    • teacher
    • Personal Names
    • Barr, Eva Louise
    • Besterman, Theodore
    • Bigongiari, Bruno Roselli
    • Boynet, Emma
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    • Cagle, William
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    • Commager, Henry Steele
    • Cons, Louis
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    • McCracken, Henry Noble
    • Monteux, Pierre
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    • Morgan, J.P.
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    • Voltaire
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    • Subjects
    • adult education
    • education
    • Great Depression
    • study abroad
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    • United States Civil War
    • Voltaire in America
    • World War I
    • World War II

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