Tape 1. In addition to Julia E. Johnson and interviewer Deborah Olson, a person identified as Jane Richardson was present during the first interview session, conducted on July 20, 1987. In this session, Johnson discusses her family background and early life in Jacksonville, Oregon. She describes the town in the early 20th century, and speaks at length about the operations of the Opp mine, which was owned and operated by her father, John Wesley Opp. She talks about the equipment used in the mine, and about the people who worked there. She discusses her early education, describes some of her childhood injuries, and shares the reasons her family moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1918. She also talks about her memories of World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic.