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Title | Griffith, Iris & Munkers, Marge Oral History Interviews, 1994 |
Interviewer | Schmitz, Kimberly |
Date | 1994-03-14 |
Description | 30 minute oral history with Marge Munkers and 48 minute oral history with Iris Griffith, both conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. Marge was raised on 17th St. and Mt. Vernon, in Spokane, Washington. She talks about her early childhood in Spokane, her parents, and the fun she had in her neighborhood growing up. Marge's parents came over from Bristol, England; lucky for Marge, they had tickets to take the maiden voyage of the Titanic, but accidentally missed their train and had to catch a later ship. Marge explains that her family was fairly poor, but that the children had a great time with the other children in the park close to their house. She describes the activities provided by the city parks service, and talks about riding the streetcar that passed in front of her house. She married when she was twenty, her husband, who worked for the Spokesman Review, went away for World War I, and returned safely. They moved to Seattle, had two sons, and Marge describes her years as a housewife. Iris was born in Hillyard Washington and moved to Spokane, Washington when she was twelve. She describes her early childhood, the last memory she has of her deceased mother, and the difficulty she and her family had when her mother died. She and her four siblings had to live in the Spokane Children's Home until their father remarried a year later. In her interview, Iris Griffith talks about difficulties in school and the hardships she faced as an outsider in a new neighborhood. She met her husband in her junior year of high school and married him while he was on leave from the army. In 1945, after he returned from the war, they bought their house in Spokane; she was still in that house at the time of the interview. Iris had four children and, eventually met and became good friends with Marge Munkers through their children. She describes raising her children and their activities. |
Subject | Economic & social conditions; Housewives; Women domestics |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Spokane County--Spokane |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b11f75 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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