Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project, 1997-2009

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

For preservation purposes, patrons must use digital audio copies available on compact disc in place of original audio cassette recordings. Audio interviews from the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 project years have not been digitized. While there are not necessarily recordings for all of the interviews, written transcriptions of or reports on the interviews are available for the entire collection.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project 1997-2009. Accession 41819. Personal papers records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Creator:
Lakeland High School (Suffolk, Va.)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project 1997-2009. Accession 41819. Personal papers records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The Lakeland High School (Suffolk, Va.) Military Veterans Oral History Project, 1997-2009, captures veterans' recollections of military duty and their involvement in major U.S. military actions including World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and post-Vietnam conflicts. Written transcripts or reports are included for all interviews. Audio or video recordings are available for some but not all of the interviews. A complete list is available at the library. No materials are available from the 1998-1999 project.

Transcripts from the Military Veterans Oral History Project, conducted annually from 1997-2009 by Lakeland High School (Suffolk, Va.) students. The interviews feature veterans recounting military experiences from the 1940's through the present.

Not all of the interviews conducted in this time period were recorded. Of the recordings that exist, the majority are audio; only a handful are on video. The audio recordings have been digitized through project year 2006/2007. Please use digital copies on CD as service copies.

Not all of the interviews conducted in this time period were recorded. The recordings that do exist for these project years have not been digitized.

Biographical / historical:

The Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project is a collection of interviews of veterans from the Suffolk, Virginia, area by Lakeland High School history students.

Acquisition information:

Donated by Lakeland High School (Suffolk, Va.) history teacher India Meissel in multiple accessions.

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project, 1997-2004 (Accession 41819). Received 7 March 2005.

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project, 2004-2006 (Accession 42873). Received 10 October 2006.

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project, 2006-2007 (Accession 43631). Received 20 February 2008.

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project, 2007-2008 (Accession 44160). Received 19 March 2009.

Lakeland High School Military Veterans Oral History Project, 2008-2009 (Accession 45008). Received 19 March 2009.

Each new accession has been interfiled with the original collection. THE COLLECTION IN ITS ENTIRETY IS FILED UNDER ACCESSION NUMBER 41819.

Arrangement:

Arrangement: Chronological by project date.

Physical description:
1.86 cubic feet (5 boxes)