Oral History
Interviewee: Zoeleen "Zoe" (McLain) Blain (b. 07/16/1922 – d. 05/11/2000)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1030
Duration: 00:33:12
Date: August 29, 1994
Topics Discussed: Community Sings at the Plaza, c. 1930s; Tex Ritter; Demolition of old High School building on Gurley and the Miss Prescott & other beauty contests.
Oral History
Interviewee: Neil F. Blair (b. 08/25/1911 – d. 05/22/1984)
Interviewer: Glenna Sanders
Audio Number: 171
Duration: 00:21:06
Date: May 26, 1978
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2021.046
Topics Discussed: Blair discusses Jim "J.R." Williams - his life and work as a cartoonist and the K4 Ranch.
Oral History
Interviewee: Charles Blanton (b. 07/24/1907 – d. 03/16/2001)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 993
Duration: 00:54:34
Date: November 18, 1993
Topics Discussed: Blanton Family History, Owl Drug & Candy Company; Chinese Gardens; Railway Mail Service; His marriage in England; Various businesses in Prescott area and Yavapai County Fairgrounds, c. 1914–1917.
Oral History
Interviewee: Elsie Blanton (b. 07/xx/1920 – d. 04/11/2015)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1295
Duration: 00:59:48
Date: July 6, 1999
Topics Discussed: Dansey/Dansy & Blanton Family History; London, England during World War II; Prescott Schools; Prescott Girl Scouts, Prescott Fine Arts Association; Yavapai Symphony Guild; Washington School PTA and Memories of Prescott businesses and people, 1940s to 1990s.
Oral History
Interviewee: Donald Lawrence Bloom (b. 10/24/1916 – d. 10/14/2016)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 963
Duration: 00:38:11
Date: March 10, 1993
Topics Discussed: Bloom Family History; Jerome, c. 1937; Arizona Teachers College; Swedish Communities and Rohrer-Bloom Drugstore business in Prescott, 1946-1981.
Oral History
Interviewee: Keith Bochat (b. 02/22/1940 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1299
Duration: 01:01:24
Date: October 12, 1999
Topics Discussed: Bochat family history, Prescott and Verde Valley history, Miller Valley School, Bristow family, Ralston family, Middle Verde, Arizona
Oral History
Interviewee: Kathryn "Kittie" Margaret Hiltenbrandt Bonnell (b. 07/15/1881 – d. 05/22/1978)
Interviewer: Sharon Sibley
Audio Number: 1381-1382
Duration: 01:03:26
Date: May 26,1967
Topics Discussed: Hiltenbrandt and Bonnell families, Humboldt, Arizona; Dewey, Arizona
Oral History
Interviewee: Albert William "Bill" Bork (b. 08/12/1906 – d. 03/30/2006)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 986-987 & 988-989
Duration: 02:01:07 & 01:28:03
Date: September 16, 1993 & September 23, 1993
Topics Discussed: Bork, Hatz & Shanberger Family Histories; Prescott Snowstorm, January 6, 1915; Circuses in Prescott; First Congregational Church; Old Ball Park; Captain John Kinney; Klu Klux Klan in Prescott; Chinese; Pre-1916 Yavapai County Courthouse – Statehood Celebration; Bork’s Grandfather built Governor’s Mansion and managed Pioneer Hotel, 1882; 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic; Newspaper Office Locations; Yavapai Club; Smoki History, 1921-1990s; A.H. Favour “Old Bill Williams” book; Foreign Language teaching policies in U.S., 1940s; Naming of Paar Drive; Chris Totten; Boy Scouts and Sharlot Hall.
Oral History
Interviewee: Albert William "Bill" Bork (b. 08/12/1906 – d. 03/30/2006)
Interviewer: Genny Ingram
Audio Number: 1403
Duration: 00:52:16
Date: April 30, 2002
Topics Discussed: Bork discusses his mother, Bessie Ethel (Hatz) Bork and her Hatz-Shanberger Family History; Growing up in Prescott; Prescott’s Library & Monday Club.
Oral History
Interviewee: Dewey Eugene Born (b. 06/16/1926 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1160-1161
Duration: 01:15:01
Date: September 30, 1996
Topics Discussed: Birth and family history, Carl Born farm c.1893, Elks Theater c.1914, mining, Prescott landmarks