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Oral history interview with Letha Ann Sloan Osteen, June 8, 1979 interview H-0254, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview H-0254, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Letha Ann Sloan Osteen, June 8, 1979 (portion title)

Osteen, Letha Ann Sloan (Interviewee). Tullos, Allen 1950- (Interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Mrs. Osteen talks about her work as a child on her father's farm and in Poe Mill. She spent most of her life living in rural South Carolina in a family of eleven children, her father, stepmother, husband, and six children. Most of the interview deals with the specific tasks involved in working at a textile mill, including responsibilities, and how workers were treated by employers. She also discusses how families handled working in the mill together, common illnesses, wages, and the death of parents. In her experience, families tended to be large and migratory, often working together in mills throughout the region. That changed with the Great Depression, when jobs became so scarce that people were more likely to stay in one town and maintain smaller families.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic edition
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

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General Note:	Duration: 01:00:16. Interview participants: Letha Ann Sloan Osteen, interviewee; Georgia [daughter], interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer. Text encoded by Mike Millner. 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 on Oct. 24, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 150.2 kilobytes, 110 megabytes.
Original Version Note:	Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, 1974-1980, interview H-0254, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Stephanie Alexander. Original transcript: 33 p.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Institute for 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.