Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Becky Johnson
Oral history interview with Becky Johnson conducted by Linda S. Dodds on November 19, 1981. Johnson discusses her career as a teacher in Ohio and Michigan, and her work as a recruiter of women for the U.S. Navy in Portland, Oregon, during World War II.
Oral history interview with Margaret Biddle Parker
Oral history interview with Margaret Biddle Parker conducted by Charles Digregorio in two sessions, on December 31, 1974, and January 15, 1975. Parker discusses her life and social activities, and the life and career of her husband, Portland architect Jamieson Parker.
Oral history interview with Norma Paulus
Oral history interview with Norma Paulus conducted by Linda S. Dodds on January 14, 1982. Paulus was a state legislator, Oregon secretary of state, and superintendent of public instruction.
Oral history interview with Fred L. Peterson
Oral history interview with Fred L. Peterson conducted by Linda S. Dodds from February 11 to April 28, 1982. Peterson discusses serving on the Portland City Council from 1940 to 1952, and as Portland mayor from 1953 to 1956.
Oral history interview with Betty Roberts
Oral history interview with Betty Roberts conducted by Katherine Huff O'Neil from October 24, 2005, to February 27, 2007, as part of the Women Trailblazers series of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Roberts was an Oregon state representative, a state senator, a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, and a state Supreme Court justice.
Oral history interview with Betty Roberts
Oral history interview with Judge Betty Roberts conducted by Clark Hansen as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Roberts was an Oregon Court of Appeals judge and state Supreme Court justice.
Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland
Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland conducted by John Moltman on August 18, 2003. Sweetland was an Oregon state representative and senator.
Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland
Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland conducted by Andrew Bryans on March 16, 2002, as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Sweetland was an Oregon state representative and senator.
Ruth L. Van Beber oral memoir
Oral memoir by Ruth L. Van Beber recorded from October 12, 1992 to May 7, 1993. Van Beber recounts her life story, including her childhood; experience in a Salvation Army Home for Wayward Girls; hitchhiking across the country during the Depression; homesteading in Oregon; running cafes; and the 1964 earthquake in Alaska.
Oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters
Oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters conducted by Robert Vaughters in the summer of 1981. Vaughters discusses raising a family in Scio, Roaring River, Hebo, and Portland, Oregon.