Interview with Jim Hoffman, September 23, 2016

Project: Living History Oral History Project

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Interview Summary

Jim Hoffman is a living history interpreter who portrays a sketch artist correspondent for an illustrated newspaper of the American Civil War period. He portrays, in a third person voice, Theodore Davis who worked for Harper’s Weekly Magazine. This interview was recorded in the back yard at Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate in Lexington Kentucky.

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2017oh712_lhr033

Interviewee Name

Jim Hoffman

Interviewer Name

J. D. Carruthers

Interview Date

2016-09-23

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Hoffman, Jim Interview by J. D. Carruthers. 23 Sep. 2016. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Hoffman, J. (2016, September 23). Interview by J. D. Carruthers. Living History Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Hoffman, Jim, interview by J. D. Carruthers. September 23, 2016, Living History Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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