Oral history interview with Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, May 27, 1980 [electronic resource] : interview H-0250, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Evelyn Gosnell Harvell grew up on a farm owned by her father in Tigerville, SC. In this interview, she recalls her family's life in Tigerville and more than three decades of mill work as a weaver. Harvell shares a number of characteristics with other mill workers interviewed in this collection: she enjoyed a rewarding childhood, she liked the work she did at the mill, and she was suspicious of unions. Harvell's brief answers to the interviewer's questions -- and the interviewer's frequent use of yes-or-no questions -- makes this interview more useful for gathering information than gaining a sense of life in the early 20th-century rural South.
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Record details
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Duration: 00:53:21. Interview participants: Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer. Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Title from menu page (viewed Oct. 24, 2007). |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 130.3 kilobytes, 97.7 megabytes. |
Original Version Note: | Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0250, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 26 p. |
Funding Information Note: | Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player. |
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Genre: | Oral histories. |