Interviews

The collection contains 74 interviews with significant figures in the early history and development of the NIH. Each interviewee has at minimum an interview abstract and in most every case, also biographical information such as a curriculum vitae, list of publications, obituary, and clippings from newspapers, NIH publications, or other printed sources. Full transcriptions of interviews exists for many persons. Each entry in the finding aid contains a note as to whether an abstract or transcript exists for that person. Two extra tapes are included: James Shannon's farewell address to NIH; a Wallace P. Rowe Rockefeller Awards speech.

Sound cassettes or reel tapes exist for each interview. All interviews have cassette copies with the exception of Edward Schilling, but not all of the original reel tapes exist. The sound reels are unavailable for public use, in cold vault storage for preservation.

Note should be made that these transcriptions are unedited. They have not been compared to the tape, nor in most cases have they been corrected by the interviewee. Researchers are cautioned, therefore, that they must be used with care and the transcripts should be compared whenever possible to the original tape.