Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Trails to Oregon Exhibit Oral History Series
Date(s)
- 1992-11-04/1993-02-05 (Creation)
Extent
3 oral history interviews (13 audiocassettes (approx. 13 hrs.)
Name of creator
Biographical history
James "Jim" Strassmaier was the Oral Historian at the Oregon Historical Society from 1986 to 2001.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Bertha Marian Holt was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1904. She attended the University of Iowa and earned a nursing degree around 1925. In 1927, she and Harry Spencer Holt, her cousin, were married. Growing up in a large family, she had always planned to have a large family of her own. The couple had four children and adopted eight from South Korea. The couple lived in Firesteel, South Dakota, until 1937, when they settled in Lane County, Oregon. Together, she and Harry Holt founded the adoption organization Holt International Children's Services in the wake of the Korean War. They successfully lobbied to change the laws surrounding international adoption. Bertha Holt tells her family's story in the book "The Seed from the East." She died in 2000.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The oral history interviews included in this oral history series were conducted in 1992 and 1993 for the purpose of inclusion in the Trails to Oregon exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society.
System of arrangement
Arranged by interview, by SR#.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Languages of the material
- English