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Polk Street Project collection
2011-05  
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Description
The 'Polk Street: Lives In Transition' project was an oral history project by Joey Plaster examining Polk Street's history through the lens of current neighborhood change. It also was a traveling multimedia exhibit, an hour-long radio documentary at transom.org, a historical narrative with OutHistory, a series of neighborhood dialogues and events. The collection contains over 70 oral histories, press materials about the project, photographs, correspondence, research files and other project related documents.
Extent
2 manuscript boxes and oral history recordings
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Collection is open for research.