INTERVIEW WITH MRS. MARSHALL DELANCEY HAYWOOD, RALEIGH, NC, TR.40
Abstract
TR.40 consists of a single reel-to-reel audio tape, a digital version on CD, and transcripts of a series of interviews with Mrs. Marshall DeLancey (Martha H. Bailey) Haywood, of Raleigh, NC. The interviews were conducted in the spring of 1968 as an oral history project of the Wakefield Junior Historian Club at LeRoy Martin Junior High School, a student organization of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, a state-wide network of student history clubs sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of History, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and the Raleigh Public School System. The junior high school club members, with their teacher Mrs. Frank (Martha L.) Harrelson, made three tape recordings during six visits with Mrs. Haywood at her home at 127 East Edenton Street. In the interviews, Mrs. Haywood recollects details of her life on North Blount Street during the period 1903 to 1926. She discusses growing up in a wealthy household and the daily activities she experienced during this time frame. The bulk of the interviews consists of a "walking tour" of the large homes that once lined both sides of North Blount Street from New Bern Avenue to Peace Street and detailed descriptions of the families who inhabited them.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Interview with Mrs. Marshall Delancey Haywood, Raleigh, NC
- Call Number
- TR.40
- Creator
- Haywood, Martha Hawkins Bailey, 1890-1969
- Date
- 1968
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
TR.40 consists of a single reel-to-reel audio tape, a digital version on CD, and transcripts of a series of interviews with Mrs. Marshall DeLancey (Martha H. Bailey) Haywood, of Raleigh, NC. The interviews were conducted in the spring of 1968 as an oral history project of the Wakefield Junior Historian Club at LeRoy Martin Junior High School, a student organization of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, a state-wide network of student history clubs sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of History, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and the Raleigh Public School System. The junior high school club members, with their teacher Mrs. Frank (Martha L.) Harrelson, made three tape recordings during six visits with Mrs. Haywood at her home at 127 East Edenton Street. In the interviews, Mrs. Haywood recollects details of her life on North Blount Street during the period 1903 to 1926. She discusses growing up in a wealthy household and the daily activities she experienced during this time frame. The bulk of the interviews consists of a "walking tour" of the large homes that once lined both sides of North Blount Street from New Bern Avenue to Peace Street and detailed descriptions of the families who inhabited them.
TR.40 consists of a single reel-to-reel audio tape, a digital version on CD, and transcripts
of a series of interviews with Mrs. Marshall DeLancey (Martha H. Bailey) Haywood,
of Raleigh, NC. The interviews were conducted in the spring of 1968 as an oral history
project of the Wakefield Junior Historian Club at LeRoy Martin Junior High School,
a student organization of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, a state-wide
network of student history clubs sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of History,
the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and the Raleigh Public School
System. The junior high school club members, with their teacher Mrs. Frank (Martha
L.) Harrelson, made three tape recordings during six visits with Mrs. Haywood at her
home at 127 East Edenton Street. The taped interviews were then transcribed in a typed
manuscript. The transcriber of the original transcript omitted at least 16 portions
of Mrs. Haywood's taped recollections, often using ellipses to indicate the omissions.
The transcript is dated 3 April 1968, and is included with the tape.
Only a portion of the original recordings and typed manuscript set survives. The tape
abruptly ends about two-thirds way through the surviving 23-page transcript. It is
thought that the interviews were recorded on a double-sided tape, and that the second
side deteriorated over time since the recordings were made in 1968. Also, the transcript
itself apparently ends during a segment in which Mrs. Haywood was discussing the North
Carolina governors whom she remembered living in the Governor's Mansion on North Blount
Street.
In October 2016, the State Archives of North Carolina's Audio/Visual Unit undertook
to recreate as fully as possible a new transcript more faithful to the content of
the original interviews. The missing taped parts not found in the original transcript
were restored, and the text annotated with pertinent information included in brackets
[ ]. The questions asked by the students are included verbatim, and are indicated
by italics. The points where the tape ends and where the transcript ends are also
referenced.
In the interviews, Mrs. Haywood recollects details of her life on North Blount Street
during the period 1903 to 1926. She discusses growing up in a wealthy household and
the daily activities she experienced during this time frame. The bulk of the interviews
consists of a "walking tour" of the large homes that once lined both sides of North
Blount Street from New Bern Avenue to Peace Street and detailed descriptions of the
families who inhabited them.
Arrangement Note
Interview with Mrs. Marshall Delancey Haywood, TR.40, is housed with the other AV Materials Collections, Audio Tape Recordings, in numerical order. Accompanying the tape is a copy of the original typed transcription done in 1968, a copy of the new transcription done in 2016 by Karl Larson, and a digital copy of the audio recording on a CD.