Guide to the Audiocassette tape Collection of Corinne Azen Krause, c1980s

Arrangement

Repository
Heinz History Center
Title
Audiocassette tape Collection of Corinne Azen Krause
Creator
Krause, Corinne Azen
Collection Number
MSC#113
Extent
2.0 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Date
c1980s
Abstract
The collection documents and records oral histories of the Jewish Community in Pittsburgh and Refractory Industry. Three series have been designated and determined by how the tapes were originally stored and labeled and are as follows: for those tapes stored in an unlabeled box; tapes stored in the boxes labeled "Oral Histories"; and tapes stored in the boxes labeled "Refractories." Transcripts for the oral histories created for the Roots and Branches exhibit and interviews for her book Refractories: the Hidden Industry are included in the manuscript collection MSS #113. Tape titles may or may not coincide with folder titles also found in MSS #113.
Language
The material in this collection is in English.
Author
This guide to the collection was originally prepared by Susan Melnick on March 10, 1999. The collection was rearranged and inventory rewritten by Janie Weaver on August 23, 2000. Revisions occurred to the finding aid as a part of the encoding process in Winter, 2002.
Sponsor
This finding aid has been encoded as a part of the Historic Pittsburgh project a joint effort of the University of Pittsburgh and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Funding for this portion of the project has been donated by the Hillman Foundation.
Publisher
Heinz History Center
Address
1212 Smallman St.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
library@heinzhistorycenter.org
URL: https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org

Biographical Sketch of Corinne Azen Krause

Corinne Azen Krause (CK) is a historian who has made Pittsburgh, the women of Pittsburgh, and the Jewish communities of the city the focus of her research. She earned a B. A. with Honors in economics from the University of Michigan, an M. A. in history from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught history at Taylor Allderdice and Schenley High Schools, Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow and Chatham Colleges.

Dr. Krause was a research associate in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh; she taught oral history at the University Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and was a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

An oral history project of three generations of American women of Italian, Jewish, and Slavic descent resulted in a nationally distributed report and several scholarly articles in 1978. A book entitled Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters (1991) contains oral histories of eighteen of the women interviewed in the three-generation study (see MSS# 348). In 1982, Dr. Krause produced Roots and Branches, an interpretive exhibition of the history of the Jewish communities of Pittsburgh.

Other publications include Isaac W. Frank: Engineer and Civic Leader (1980); Los Judios en Mexico (1987), a social history of Jews in independent Mexico; Refractories: the Hidden Industry (1987); as well as articles and book reviews.

Dr. Krause is a founding member of Jewish Residential Services, an agency organized to provide housing with professional support services to young adults with serious and persistent mental illness. She was also a founder of the Pittsburgh Ethnic Coalition. She is a member of the advisory committee of the Rauh Jewish Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, a former member of the board of the Historical Society, and a life member of the board of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.

Scope and Content Notes

The collection documents and records oral histories of the Jewish Community in Pittsburgh and Refractory Industry. Three series have been designated and determined by how the tapes were originally stored and labeled. Transcripts for the oral histories created for the Roots and Branches exhibit and interviews for her book Refractories: the Hidden Industry are included in the manuscript collection MSS #113. Tape titles may or may not coincide with folder titles found in MSS #113. Tape titles were transcribed from the handwritten notations made on the tape itself and all notations except for those referring to the transcription process were included in the tape titles. In some cases only a last name was written on the tape. Some spelling errors and/or discrepancies may have occurred. Titles were listed by those found first on side A.

Arrangement

Three series have been designated and determined by how the tapes were originally stored and labeled and are as follows: for those tapes stored in an unlabeled box; tapes stored in the boxes labeled "Oral Histories"; and tapes stored in the boxes labeled "Refractories."

The Corinne Azen Krause Audiocassette tape Collection are housed in two archival boxes.

Conditions Governing Access

Audiocassette tapes are closed until copies can be made for preservation as well as use.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

These items came in ten accessions from 1988-1998.

Acc# 1988.0086, 1989.0068, 1990.0124, 1991.0027, 1992.0134, 1992.0166, 1992.0264, 1993.0112, 1997.0394, 1998.0109 Gift of Corinne Azen Krause.

Preferred Citation

Audiocassette tape Collection of Corinne Azen Krause, c1980s, MSC# 113, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Susan Melnick on March 10, 1999. Papers rearranged and inventory rewritten by Janie Weaver on August 23, 2000.

Revision and rearrangement for the encoded version of the finding aid provided by Robert O. Stakeley on November 11, 2002.

Conditions Governing Use

Property rights reside with the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or publish, please contact the curator of the Archives.

Subjects

    Personal Names

    • Krause, Corinne Azen

    Other Subjects

    • Jewish Archives
    • ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
    • Women's Collection
    • Jewish authors
    • Jewish children
    • Jewish children -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jewish day schools -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jewish families
    • Jewish families -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jewish religious education -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jewish religious schools -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jewish way of life
    • Jewish way of life -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- Employment -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- Genealogy -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- History -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews in the United States
    • Jews -- Social life and customs -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Jews -- Women
    • Jews -- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Refractories industry
    • Refractories industry -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Synagogues -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    • Zionism -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh

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