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Carli Crozier Schiffuer History 597: Women In the West Dr. Armitage May 1, 2001 Summary of Oral Interview Interviewee: Erma Frances Hunt Schiffner Interview: March 20, 2001 00:15 Discussion of birth, midwife, Colfax 01:50 Story of fire in Colfax home. 03: 00 Immigration to Colfax from California Homestead, 1877 08:00 Story ofhow parents met. Birth ofher siblings. 11:00 Move to Kennewick. Description of land, homestead. Early school days. 17:00 Accident with vice-grip in father's garage. 24:00 Parental relationship Making money I Great Depression 36:00 Elementary School Days 44:00 Relationship with Native Americans in region. 48:00 Description of land, getting to school 62:00 Discussion of absent mother Sick brother to Colfax with grandparents
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Title | Schiffner, Erma Francis Oral History Interview, 2001 |
Interviewer | Schiffner, Carli Crozier |
Date | 2001-05-07 |
Description | 59 minute oral history with Erma Schiffner, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She describes her early childhood and discusses her relationship with her parents, and the struggles her family endured. She moved to Walla Walla, Washington and started nursing school, but moved back to Colfax, Washington because her husband was away serving in World War II. After he returned, they moved to Seattle and had another son. She describes the many difficulties within her marriage and her husband's alcoholism. |
Subject | Rural women; Farm life; Families |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States----Whitman County--Colfax; North and Central America--United States----Walla Walla County--Walla Walla; North and Central America--United States----King County--Seattle |
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 | ua262b04f42 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.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. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua262b04f42_Abstract |
Full Text | Carli Crozier Schiffuer History 597: Women In the West Dr. Armitage May 1, 2001 Summary of Oral Interview Interviewee: Erma Frances Hunt Schiffner Interview: March 20, 2001 00:15 Discussion of birth, midwife, Colfax 01:50 Story of fire in Colfax home. 03: 00 Immigration to Colfax from California Homestead, 1877 08:00 Story ofhow parents met. Birth ofher siblings. 11:00 Move to Kennewick. Description of land, homestead. Early school days. 17:00 Accident with vice-grip in father's garage. 24:00 Parental relationship Making money I Great Depression 36:00 Elementary School Days 44:00 Relationship with Native Americans in region. 48:00 Description of land, getting to school 62:00 Discussion of absent mother Sick brother to Colfax with grandparents |
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