Oral History of the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Hospital

Short Term: Nine oral histories were completed and transcribed, achieving project targets.

Intermediate: Two adviser reviews of the interview transcripts were completed and reported. Determination was made that the recorded interviews are historically and sociologically significant and thus warrant publication in some form, although confidentiality of the interviewees must be protected per contractual agreements between them and the oral historian.

Long-Term: The project's targets of increasing "the depth of public knowledge of the history of the Booth Memorial Hospital and its social significance, by putting a 'human face' on previous archival research" were achieved, in that each of the nine interviews provides compelling testimony concerning the change in societal conditions and mores that made the Booth Hospital both necessary in the past and obsolete in the present. Both the audio recordings of the interviews and the transcripts of them have been filed in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota's Elmer L. Andersen Library, making them available to future researchers. A public presentation of project results to the MISF community is scheduled for March, 2018.