{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of over 150 interviews Kisseloff conducted for <span class=\"title\">You Must Remember This: An oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II</span>. The recordings are listed alphabetically by neighborhood; within each neighborhood, interviewees are arranged alphabetically by surname. Some interviews took place over multiple sessions and these sessions are arranged sequentially by date. Due to the large number of interviewees and length of the interviews, only a portion of each interview was transcribed and incorporated into the published book. About ten percent of the interviewees were not represented in the final work at all.</p> <p>Kisseloff interviewed native New Yorkers and immigrants from Europe, Russia, South America, and the Caribbean who represented a broad spectrum of social, economic, ethnic, and racial groups. Included are conversations with artists and writers who lived in Greenwich Village, longshoremen and merchant seamen who worked the docks in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, and dancers and musicians from Harlem. Interviews chronicle an interviewee’s education and profession; religion; family, friends, and neighbors; and key life events like marriage and childbirth. The interviews are rich with accounts of everyday life including descriptions of apartments and houses; health and hygiene; modes of transport; and the purchase of household goods like groceries, ice, and coal. Many interviewees also discuss their military service and their involvement with unions and community groups.</p> <p>While the majority of the interviewees are not notable, there are interviews with saxophonist Eddie Barefield; newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; Barney Josephson, founder of New York’s first integrated nightclub, Café Society; sculptor Reuben Kadish; New York state Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz; New York Supreme Court justice Owen McGivern, who was educated through the dual support of his priest, Reverend Francis P. Duffy, and the sponsorship of Tammany Hall; and Naomi Waller Washington, the sister of Thomas “Fats” Waller. Many otherwise ordinary people were involved in key events in New York City history; Pauline Pepe survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and Edna Doering was six years old when she survived the fire on the General Slocum. For additional background material on some of the interviewees, researchers may wish to consult the published book.</p>"}