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From long memories : a comparative study of interviews conducted on Staten Island by C.E. Anthon in 1850-51 and C.G. Hine in 1911-16

Nineteenth and early twentieth century collectors of local history who included interviewing in their research are the precursors of today's oral historians. Both Charles Edward Anthon (1822-1883), an academic historian trained in the classics, and Charles Gilbert Hine (1859-1931), an avocational historian and folklorist, collected Staten Island history from oral sources. Content analysis combined with timeline reconstruction provides a format for the quantifiable and objective comparison of these historians with one another, as well as with current practices in oral history collecting.

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