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Indiana Automobile Industry, 1982

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 the Study of History and Memory

Title
Indiana Automobile Industry, 1982

Project No.
ohrc061

Interviews
2 interviews. 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
This project deals with the Automobile Industry in Indiana and why it declined. The interviewees discuss industry within Indiana, concentrating on Indianapolis in the nineteen twenties.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains two interviews conducted in 1982. The interviews are 115 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both interviews consist of audio tapes and typed transcripts.

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
Dortch, Carl R. August 20, 1982 

Call Number
82-066

Physical Description

26 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 115 minutes; no index

Interviewer
Swanson, Catherine

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Carl R. Dortch, born in 1914, first came to Indianapolis when his father got a job with Marmon Motor Car Company. Dortch discusses the fact that many people either passing through or from farm areas that were no longer hiring became a good labor market for the automobile companies, which were for the most part family owned businesses. He refers to the mass- roduction automobile companies of Detroit as a possible impact on decline. Dortch also discusses the survival of the Indianapolis economy through a variety of industry as well as the economic growth of the city.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Chrysler Corporation
    • Ford Motor Company
    • Marmon Motor Car Company
    • Personal Names
    • Hoke, Frank
    • Place Names
    • Belleville, Illinois
    • Detroit, Michigan
    • Indianapolis, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • family business
    • Indianapolis industry
    • labor market
    • labor relations
    • mass production

Interviewee
Hoke, Frank September 28, 1982 

Call Number
82-062

Physical Description

9 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 20 minutes; no index; biographical data of interviewee

Interviewer
Swanson, Catherine

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Frank Hoke, born in 1899, discusses the various factors that may have had an impact on the fall of the automobile industry in Indiana. He speaks about the history of family owned businesses in Indianapolis, including one his own father began. Hoke also discusses changes in the automobile industry as a whole.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Chevrolet
    • Holcomb and Hoke Manufacturing Company, Incorporated
    • Marmon Motor Car Company
    • Place Names
    • Indianapolis, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • automobile business
    • business management
    • economic conditions
    • water transportation

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