Scope and Content Note
The United States Capitol Historical Society Oral History Collection span the years 1976-1991. The collection contains typewritten transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Frank Van der Linden with selected members of Congress, including Robert C. Byrd, Tony Coelho, Tom DeLay, Robert K. Dornan, Newt Gingrich, Jesse Helms, Walter Henry Judd, Jennings Randolph, Hugh Scott, and Thomas Jefferson Steed. Also in the collection are transcripts of interviews with John Coolidge, son of Pres. Calvin Coolidge; Edward L. R. Elson, chaplain of the Senate, 1969-1981; and Allyn Cox, muralist of the Capitol, circa 1930-1982.