2022 Essays
Meddlesome Practices Landing Page Text for Continental Group Project
Spanning seventy years of the Continental Can Company, oral histories with 226 employees illustrate the type of research and practice the Oral History Research Office (OHRO) conducted for many of its own formative years. Major companies would contract with the OHRO to conduct interviews about its history and operations. In that sense, if according to U.S. legal doctrine, “corporations are people,” it makes sense to consider corporations as the subject of an oral history interview and ask narrators to comment on the corporation.
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- Meddlesome Practices Exhibition Archive
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- March 16, 2022
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- Supplemented by:
- Oral history interview with Vido Matich 1974; Audio Clip
- Supplemented by:
- Oral history interview with Martin L. Haupt 1974; Audio Clip
- Is derived from:
- Continental Group project : oral history, 1974-1975