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00-24 25-70 70-85 86-105 106-125 126-149 150-160 161-178 180-190 191-217 218-230 231-245 246-297 299-321 Index for taped interview of Catharine Crowe Born Feb 12, 1920. Ellberton, Wa. Eldest of 6 and only girl. Schooling in town. Grad 1938. Liked math. Youth activities. Always home after school for chores. Not much play time. Only limited sports for girls. Brothers did sports. Chores. Cooking, typical dinner, canning on wood or coal stove. Curing pork, chickens Church and on to grandparents' after. Baptized 1950 Met and married Clyde 1937. Married Sept 1938. Dating activities, movies, dances. Had a car by then Car breaking down, card parties, sled over fields to school. Trains in Oakesdale. To Garfield and Lewiston. Adoption of Jim 1946. Train to Seattle. Wa Children's home. Jim's education, and grandchildren's education. All grad from WSU. Ladies aid, raising money, weddings, funerals, showers, receptions. Grange,1944. TV and sports took away from this kind of activity. Rebecca and Eastern Star. Formal gowns and drill team. Innitiation. 322-360 Description of initiation rites. Riding the goat. Marches. Walking through something blindfolded. 361-403 403-528 529-588 589-603 Old flour mill. Flour sent off to Montana by trains. Description ofMt St Helen's eruption. Card parties. Coasting on sleds. Getting snowed in. 604-662 Horses, 8. Rode work horses. Brother tried to ride the cows. Horse drawn farm machines. Took 16 to pull combine. Driving farm truck. More modem equipment meant not as many men needed. 663-734 Technology. Old Oakesdale. Businesses. Taverns churches. Grain truck. Taking meals out to field. Came home and cleaned up. Thought it was fun then. 734-774 Washing. Exhaust from gas powered washing machine nearly killer her mother. Virginia relatives washing on board and carrying water. 775-790 Eight rooms in childhood home. Two boys to a bed. She had her own room as the spoiled girl. 791-822 Heating with wood or coal. Father getting wood with neighbor. Coal came on train. Coal furnace-oil furnace-electric. 824-855 Cook stove in summer. Ironing. Steam from damp clothes. No electricity until she was married. 856-870 until later. 870-885 885-931 Washington Water Power. Many times without power. No bathroom Bathing. Heated water. Into wash tub. Folks had tub in house. WWII years. Wait list for fridge. Rationing sugar gas and nylon stockings. Ration stamps. Clyde's brother killed, Okinawa. 931-969 to Nevada. 970-002 Brother joined the Navy ''to see the world". Got scarlet fever. Sent Arnold on AF aircraft carrier. Korean war. Mother and Catharine visit AC carrier in Tacoma. 003-020 Dancing. She and cousin dancing at tennis court. 021-082 Riding horses, groomin and trimming mane with friend. Playing marbles and neighbor kicking her leg. 083-102 Caring for Arnold when he was a baby. Vacation, homesick, and home. Back to caring for Arnold. 103-129 Close to family. Clyde made $5.00 per day. Gas,$.20 pr gal. Bread,$.25 a loaf. 130-154 Walking to store through snow in Ellberton for wieners and bread. 154-203 Raising runt pig and losing it in a barn fire. Grandmother made her clothes. Made shirts for the boys. Grandmother often cooked for them. 204-275 Washing on Monday. Making lye soap when they butchered pigs. 277-227 Description of medicines. Cod liver oil, something tasting vaguely like root beer, sasafras tea. 327 Catharine hates root beer now. Jim always loved it and never had to worry that she might drink it.
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Title | Crowe, Catherine Oral History Interview, 2005 |
Interviewer | Cookson, Mary |
Date | 2005-04-30 |
Description | 43 minute oral history with Catherine Crowe, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She talks about her childhood growing up on a farm as a member of a large family. She describes her experiences during the Depression and the benefits of growing their own food. After high school, she married and adopted a son. Her family eventually settled in Oakesdale, Washington. |
Subject | Rural women; Farm life; Housewives |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Elberton; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Oakesdale |
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 | ua262b07f82 |
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 | ua262b07f82_Abstract |
Full Text | 00-24 25-70 70-85 86-105 106-125 126-149 150-160 161-178 180-190 191-217 218-230 231-245 246-297 299-321 Index for taped interview of Catharine Crowe Born Feb 12, 1920. Ellberton, Wa. Eldest of 6 and only girl. Schooling in town. Grad 1938. Liked math. Youth activities. Always home after school for chores. Not much play time. Only limited sports for girls. Brothers did sports. Chores. Cooking, typical dinner, canning on wood or coal stove. Curing pork, chickens Church and on to grandparents' after. Baptized 1950 Met and married Clyde 1937. Married Sept 1938. Dating activities, movies, dances. Had a car by then Car breaking down, card parties, sled over fields to school. Trains in Oakesdale. To Garfield and Lewiston. Adoption of Jim 1946. Train to Seattle. Wa Children's home. Jim's education, and grandchildren's education. All grad from WSU. Ladies aid, raising money, weddings, funerals, showers, receptions. Grange,1944. TV and sports took away from this kind of activity. Rebecca and Eastern Star. Formal gowns and drill team. Innitiation. 322-360 Description of initiation rites. Riding the goat. Marches. Walking through something blindfolded. 361-403 403-528 529-588 589-603 Old flour mill. Flour sent off to Montana by trains. Description ofMt St Helen's eruption. Card parties. Coasting on sleds. Getting snowed in. 604-662 Horses, 8. Rode work horses. Brother tried to ride the cows. Horse drawn farm machines. Took 16 to pull combine. Driving farm truck. More modem equipment meant not as many men needed. 663-734 Technology. Old Oakesdale. Businesses. Taverns churches. Grain truck. Taking meals out to field. Came home and cleaned up. Thought it was fun then. 734-774 Washing. Exhaust from gas powered washing machine nearly killer her mother. Virginia relatives washing on board and carrying water. 775-790 Eight rooms in childhood home. Two boys to a bed. She had her own room as the spoiled girl. 791-822 Heating with wood or coal. Father getting wood with neighbor. Coal came on train. Coal furnace-oil furnace-electric. 824-855 Cook stove in summer. Ironing. Steam from damp clothes. No electricity until she was married. 856-870 until later. 870-885 885-931 Washington Water Power. Many times without power. No bathroom Bathing. Heated water. Into wash tub. Folks had tub in house. WWII years. Wait list for fridge. Rationing sugar gas and nylon stockings. Ration stamps. Clyde's brother killed, Okinawa. 931-969 to Nevada. 970-002 Brother joined the Navy ''to see the world". Got scarlet fever. Sent Arnold on AF aircraft carrier. Korean war. Mother and Catharine visit AC carrier in Tacoma. 003-020 Dancing. She and cousin dancing at tennis court. 021-082 Riding horses, groomin and trimming mane with friend. Playing marbles and neighbor kicking her leg. 083-102 Caring for Arnold when he was a baby. Vacation, homesick, and home. Back to caring for Arnold. 103-129 Close to family. Clyde made $5.00 per day. Gas,$.20 pr gal. Bread,$.25 a loaf. 130-154 Walking to store through snow in Ellberton for wieners and bread. 154-203 Raising runt pig and losing it in a barn fire. Grandmother made her clothes. Made shirts for the boys. Grandmother often cooked for them. 204-275 Washing on Monday. Making lye soap when they butchered pigs. 277-227 Description of medicines. Cod liver oil, something tasting vaguely like root beer, sasafras tea. 327 Catharine hates root beer now. Jim always loved it and never had to worry that she might drink it. |
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