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6th Avenue Memories: Ethel Yost (Interview No. 49, Tape No. 1)
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- 8/13/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Ethel Yost talks family background, butcher shops, businesses on 6th Avenue, entertainments, trolley lines. (Interview No. 49, Tape No. 1)
A Polish Immigrant: Rose Piekarski (Interview No. 25, Tape No. 1)
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- 2/19/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Rose Piekarski gives a sketch of her family, life in Baltimore, work here, family, berry farming in Puyallup Valley. (Interview No. 25, Tape No. 1)
A Railroader's Family: Mrs. Louise Troll (Interview No. 22, Tape No. 1)
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- 2/3/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Mrs. Louise Troll talks work schedules, hazards and fears of railroaders, community life. (Interview No. 22, Tape No. 1)
A Working Teacher: Rose E. Saxton (Interview No. 24, Tape No. 1)
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- 2/17/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Rose E. Saxton talks home life, training and work to be a schoolteacher, family and teaching, positions held. (Interview No. 24, Tape. No. 1)
Alpha Prairie (Wash.) 1888-1910: Mary Johnson (Interview No. 39, Tape No. 1)
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- 5/28/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Mary Johnson talks family background, housekeeping, canning, schooling, the farm. (Interview No. 39, Tape No. 1)
An Artist and Art in the Northwest: Dorothy Milne Rising (Interview No. 4, Tape No. 1)
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- 9/23/1975
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Seattle painter Dorthy Milne Rising discusses personal background, art work, and art in the Northwest. Milne was born in Tacoma and served as a member of the Northwest Printmakers Society and as President of Women Painters of Washington. (Interview No. 4, Tape No. 1)
An Immigrant Life: Anna Laursen (Interview No. 21, Tape No. 1)
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- 1/27/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Anna Laursen discusses life in Tacoma, school work, general view of early life she remembered, home life and house work. (Interview No. 21, Tape No. 1)
Anacortes Early Life: Catherine Maxwell (Interview No. 33, Tape No. 1)
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- 4/21/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Catherine Maxwell talks early life in Iowa, trip out to Anacortes, work in canneries as a child, schooling and work later in life, feelings on marriage and work. (Interview No. 33, Tape No. 1)
Anacortes Early Life: Catherine Maxwell (Interview No. 33, Tape No. 2)
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- 4/21/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Catherine Maxwell discusses jobs in canneries, pay, hours and conditions, supervisors, cod fish plants, foreign workers. (Interview No. 33, Tape No. 2)
Another View, Railroad Support: Harold A. Speer (Interview No. 17, Tape No. 1)
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- 1/8/1975 (likely 1976)
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Harold A. Speer talks memories of old railroad, employees, work as a call boy, office work done, WWII, stories of railroading. (Interview No. 17, Tape No. 1)
Another View, Railroad Support: Harold A. Speer (Interview No. 17, Tape No. 2)
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- 1/29/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Harold A. Speer discusses transfer to Main Office in St. Paul, friction among workers, various jobs filled, head accountant in Burlington Northern. (Interview No. 17, Tape No. 2)
Blending of Two Worlds: Martin Sampson (Interview No. 9, Tape No. 1)
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- 11/6/1975
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Martin Sampson discusses family life, early schooling and later life. (Interview No. 9, Tape No. 1)
Blending of Two Worlds: Martin Sampson (Interview No. 9, Tape No. 2)
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- 11/6/1975
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Martin Sampson continues speaking of life after school, work done on the reservation, Northwest Federation of American Indians, one song of Native American origin. (Interview No. 9, Tape No. 2)
Colonial Gardens: Fred Bevegni (Interview No. 44, Tape No. 1)
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- 6/22/1976
Part of Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
Fred Bevegni talks family background, working in the Gardens, its beginnings, changes, crops grown. (Interview No. 44, Tape No. 1)