David Jickling was interviewed by Felix Lapinski on July 6, 1996. Jickling moved to the Washington, DC, area in 1955 for his job with the Navy Department, and his family visited the Smithsonian regularly. Jickling is now a volunteer at the Postal Museum. This interview discusses Jickling's first visit to the Smithsonian in 1946; the landscape of the Mall in the 1950s; working on the Mall and visiting the museums over lunch; his favorite museums; his visits to the many Smithsonian museums and facilities, including the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama; his daughter's career at the Hirshhorn and Cooper-Hewitt Museums; Jickling's work as a volunteer at the Postal Museum; which sections of the museum his tours cover; visitors' reactions to the museum; Smithsonian Resident Associates trips; and family.
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- Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife Oral History Interviews
- Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife Oral History Interviews / Interviews
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- Interviews
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- Smithsonian Institution Archives
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- Archival materials
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- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9594, Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife Oral History Interviews
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- ebl-1619206230728-1619206230817-1
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