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Summery of Oral Interview with Edith Lena Meicho Wilson March 16, 2001 • Introduction of who is being interviewed • Discussion of her parents. When they were born and where. How they came out to the West and interesting stories about her mother's adventures on the wagon train. • Her childhood. The Scarlet Fever, her sister being born. Roller-skating through the house. • Getting married. Their wedding. Building their first house and getting pregnant. • The War. Taking her baby down to San Francisco to see her husband before he left for the South Pacific. Train ride there and the troubles she faced at being a new mother on her own in a strange city. Meeting her husband and introducing him to their daughter. • Working during the war. Female boss that she did not like. • Her husband being back from the war. Starting their own business and moving from their first home out farther from the center of town. • Moving to Seattle and working for Boeing. • Building their new house in Edmonds, WA • Edith starting work at Boeing and working her way up to being the head of a crew of people. • Retirement. She and her husband retire on the same day. • The Food bank. And retiring from working with them. • Darlene becoming a member of the family. (She remembers back to having had another daughter in amongst all the moving and building. • Her Granddaughter Tracie moving in with her.
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Title | Wilson, Edith Oral History Interview, 2001 |
Interviewer | McLellan, Dawn |
Date | 2001-05-07 |
Description | 59 minute oral history with Edith Wilson, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She talks about her parents and her early childhood in Spokane, Washington. As a child, she was struck by Scarlet fever and she recalls her time in a quarantine house. She married after a long courtship and raised a family. They moved to Seattle , Washington when her husband was hired at Boeing, where she was also able to work until she retired. She talks about volunteering and traveling. |
Subject | Economic & social conditions; Housewives; Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Spokane County--Spokane; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--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 | ua262b05f47 |
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 | ua262b05f47_Abstract |
Full Text | Summery of Oral Interview with Edith Lena Meicho Wilson March 16, 2001 • Introduction of who is being interviewed • Discussion of her parents. When they were born and where. How they came out to the West and interesting stories about her mother's adventures on the wagon train. • Her childhood. The Scarlet Fever, her sister being born. Roller-skating through the house. • Getting married. Their wedding. Building their first house and getting pregnant. • The War. Taking her baby down to San Francisco to see her husband before he left for the South Pacific. Train ride there and the troubles she faced at being a new mother on her own in a strange city. Meeting her husband and introducing him to their daughter. • Working during the war. Female boss that she did not like. • Her husband being back from the war. Starting their own business and moving from their first home out farther from the center of town. • Moving to Seattle and working for Boeing. • Building their new house in Edmonds, WA • Edith starting work at Boeing and working her way up to being the head of a crew of people. • Retirement. She and her husband retire on the same day. • The Food bank. And retiring from working with them. • Darlene becoming a member of the family. (She remembers back to having had another daughter in amongst all the moving and building. • Her Granddaughter Tracie moving in with her. |
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