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Digital Archives

The SPOHP archive, in both digital and in physical format, is available for use by research scholars, students, journalists, genealogists, and the public. Documents may be accessed through the UF Digital Collections, as well as the Pugh Hall archive (containing physical artifacts). For access to physical research objects, please visit the offices of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in Room 241 of Pugh Hall, or contact us by phone at 352-392-7168.

UF Digital Collection Pugh Hall archive

Deborah Hendrix, the SPOHP Digital Humanities Production Coordinator, works in the archives.

The archives of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s oral history collections feature over 6,500 interviews. Our archives include interview recordings on a variety of media, including cassette tapes and digital holdings available through UF’s Smathers Libraries at the Digital Collections website, which features close to 2,000 items, and over 150,000 pages of interview transcripts.

Transcripts are written according to the SPOHP Style Guide for Transcripts.