Augusta, Georgia, United States
· 1940-01-23
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Allen, L. R., Harris, Leila H., Thompson, Daisy
wa41.41) TJ St A kba.WhANT A Lepression Vibtim Story, Written by: Mn. Daisy Thompson Autiusta clitect by: Mrs. Leila Aarris ,supdrvisin ditor Geor6ia Writers' Project Area 7 Auusta, February 4, 1S0-40 L. R. alien 4b1 Telfair 64reet Ausuata, Georgia January li40 T• I 'LANTaD TO B. A 1,At,AOliAtT "The past few years have brought many changes in my way of living." John Robson said thougntfully. "But all of these readjuatments came after I had realized my lifelong amoition of coming to the city…
United States, Georgia, Augusta
· 1940-02-05
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Bothwell, J. T., Harris, Leila H., Thompson, Daisy
MJARGAAMDISA OW TSX TOBOGGAb A Depression Victim Story Written by: Mrs. Thitlay Thompson Augusta, Georgic Milted by; Mrs. Leila H. Barris Supervising laitor Georgia Writers' Project Area 7 Augusta, Georgia February, 7, 1940. J. r. Bothwell, herohant 61Z Broad 3treet Augusta, 4eorgia February 5, 1940 D. T. NI NABCHANDIHS ON 211;i TOBOGGAN don't think there is the least out about a general improvement in business." Mid William Anderson, who is the head at the firm that oars his nano. "There is…
Georgia, United States, Augusta
· 1940-02-08
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Mrs. J. R., Harris, Leila H., Thompson, Daisy
WOMAN AND TM'. WIANQING Written by: Mrs. Daisy Thompson Augusta, Georgia Sited by: Mrs. Leila if. Harris Supervising 'Mita° Georgia Writers' Proleot Area Augusta, Georgia February 16, 1940 Mrs. J. R. Byrd 214 Masonic Building Augusta, Georgia February 8, 1940 D. T. WJAAN AND THS ChabiGING TIMAS "It seems as though I have always worked witn cotton in some form." Said Mrs. Blount as she pressed some dress material. "Why before I started in the dressmaking business I usea to help pick ootton. In…
Augusta, Georgia, United States
· 1940-03-12
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Harris, Leila M., Thompson, Daisy
G(ritT011 LLD (4MQ$ (A Depressioa Story) Written by; Mrs. Daisy Maness* Augusta, Georgia idited by: Ural. AAtila MA Harris Jupervisiag Uttar Georgia Writers' Frajeet Area mersa 12, 1940. Cottou and itarehouseman 731 iieynolds D. T. C.OTVCN "Certainly, I can spare you a little time." David Black remarked with a marry twinkle in his eye. "-,Ance tue govern- i4ent entered business, time is tue thing we hay° the most of." it ripti:uired quite EWA-Ai t1411 to find this oftioe which is looated two…
Atlanta, United States, Georgia
· 1939
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Martin, Eugenia, Tonsill, Geneva
Eugenia _Martin 1028Westmoor Drive, N.W. WPA -6orker HousedcWaping Aide •By Gzieva Tonsil' ./Tufc I MANAGED ir ON "Is am the offsPrin3* of Thomas nnd Lucy Collier. Their rarents were slaves. Mother .71d father were also slaves. Illy mother was a descendant of the Cherokee Indians on her mother's side and Anglo-Saxon on her fatherts aide. -Iothers father, Dr. Virgil A. T:Aller, was well educated. He taught school and practiced medicine. As far as could be ascertained he was a ba-chelor and…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-02-02
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Corse, Montgomery, Shepherd, Rose
February 2, 1939 Life History Montgomery Gorse, (Wood &nal Dealer) 1801 Goodwin it., Jacksonville, Florida 1.-ritten by iose Shepherd MAR= CROSS, WOOD AND FUEL DEALER Mr. Gross, retired wood and fuel merchant, lives in a splendidly substantial brick home near the foot of Goodwin Street in Jacksonville Where he can hear the lapping of the waves of the incoming and outgo- ing tide in St. Johns River which hse figured so ?rominently in his life history. Hose, a happy-faoad colored maid, with the…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-04-28
· 15 pages
Recorded by: Gray, Frank S. (75), Shepherd, Rose
28, 1949. Prank s. Gruy (75) Retired Hardware Jc.eoutive y 34 west 4th-st., Jaak sonvi 11 e Florida. Hose chopherd,writer /fatal/. tiOW i6BY GRIN lray tits interviewed at hie home, 34 Trost Fourth i.etrJetp Tho house of tho southern colonial sty lo of architeoturo, built in 1890, its maesive fluted white pillars uscon,ting to the roof in iront, tho tide entrance door, tho deep porches, the large building itoolf eentorin-t the hundred foot feentago on Fourth zitreot, identified it as O. mansion…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-05-16
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Benjamin, Julien Philip, Shepherd, Rose
mAy lb. 1939. JUlion Philip manjmain uonstruotion and prain- *Age sugineere maJhinery 312 misbee Jauksonvi lle noritit. NOos Aephord. writor. MIA PHILIP is:iNJ,YIN he,. aaked about hi relationship to the famous Judah ehilip balljAmill, member of Jeffmrplon Davis' uabinet of the ,:onfed- erauy, mr. Benjamin said: "4boat third or fourth csoueins a little too far baok to brag about but it is true that hie great-grandfather 'aid m riat-great grandfather were brothers. my great -groat grundfmther…
United States, Florida, Jacksonville
· 18 pages
Recorded by: [Felos?], William ([Greek?]), Shepherd, Rose
August 111, William fele*, (Week) 13C West Yereytk-st•, Net Gleaner and Nat Sleeker, OVA Si 0.4, Jaoksenville, Morita. Rose Shepherd, Writer. 26015 WILLIAM SILOS, SAT CLIANKR AND SLOCINR. Gus Oempemes business wimples the double amide et 130 west hawyth..0%.• aejoiniss the Seminole lists]. Olber hams is Pawl. Pronouneed "felleo," but the. umerieens galled him *Pillars", "Failes", "Felix" and "Piling" but everybody soul d remember "Gus" so that is the name on the big sigm over the front .or,…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1940-02-28
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Ellington, Mrs. T.h., Shepherd, Rose
February 28, 1940. Mrs. T. H. Allington "Red Bank" ,4;--- 1230 Greenridge Head South Jacksonville, 6-.- ••(-4(ec Florida. Personal Interview Hose Shepherd, Writer. Az RD mx$ HISTORIC DUVAL COUNTY HOBS on the last street within the corporate limits of South Jacksonville stands "Red Bank" an old plantation manor house formerly centering a land grant with a seven -mile frontage an the St. Johns miver.und a history of continuous ownership of over one hundred years by the Phillips long identified…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-02-04
· 18 pages
Recorded by: Ellington, Mrs. Thomas, Shepherd, Rose
..0 4.-- C.. February 4, X939. Life Eistory -,re. Thema 811ingtoa LipArgiArtfrifleisohor Greenness Road, Colonial manor, Bonn Jikkeenville, fie. Rose Shepherd writer (Revised) TERM GRNARCTIONS WHITS AND BLACK. On the last street within the oorporate limits of South Jacksonville stands "Red BanK" an eld plantation manor house formerly centering a land grunt with a seven -mile fnontage on the St. Johns River and a history of continuous ownership of over one hundred years by a family long…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-03-01
· 18 pages
Recorded by: Dozier, Henrietta C., Shepherd, Rose
March 1, 1959. Miss Henrietta 0. Dozier Arehiteot 41b Fokinallar Life Bldg isokSonville$ Florida. Remo Shepherd, Writer. MISS RBAHIHTTA 0. DOHA, ARCHITHOT. Miss Dozier was visited in her officio, one of a suits of two rooms which she shares with a local drainage engineer. The walls were adorned with numerous photographs of homes, rosideness and apartments she has designed and planned in her many years' residenoe in Jacksonville, and other new buildings in the sours. of uonstruotion. A rather…
St. Augustine, Florida, United States
· 1939-05-11
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Dismukes, Elizabeth, Shepherd, Rose
mmy 11, 1939. Mrs. alizabeth mismukes Pioneer yloridian (90) 21 bay -et., ut. Augustine, ylo. Hose ohepherd, writer. MRS. hILIZAB3TR DISmUKAS Mrs. Mismukes, an oreoteslender woman, was interviewed in her lovely home overlooking matanzas bay. he moves quickly and speaks with animation, but failing eyesight has compelled her to give up her beloved pastime of reading. "But I have a reader come in every evening for an hour or so, and she reads tile newspapers and excerpts from the leading…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-02-05
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Devan, Martha Ellen, Shepherd, Rose
February be 1939. Life History Mrs. Murtha Ulan Mose 1713 S. Ohuroh-st., Jaoksonville, Florida. Rose ShePherd-- rites*. MRS. MARTHA IGLU MAN, PIONNAR. We met en the evossing at Main and AIWA. Street on a busy Saturday afternoon, She saw me first, she on the inside and I on the outside of the busy traffiu lane of shoppers, mad pushing her way through, clamped my hmud and placed her arm around my shoulder in happy greeting. I was glad to see my 74 -year old friend, and as I noted how strong and…
Florida, Fernandina, United States
· 1939-11-23
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Brady, Mrs. Eliza Kelly, Shepherd, Rose
November 23, 1939. Life History ire. Hansa Kelly Brady, (luge 72) 41 South 6th -it., Fernandina, :Florida. Rose Shepherd, Writer. WR8. KLIZA KKLLT BRADY. More than one resident of Pernandina had said: "Thu go see Mrs. Brady, if anybody knows and remembers things about this town, it's Wise =so. And she oan tell you all about Bt. Miohael's Ottholio Churoh she.psuotioally lives there." Pre. Brady's homo is 4 two-story-and-attia frame residenee with double front baloonies adorned with spindle…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-02-06
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Barnwell, Mrs. Isabel, Shepherd, Rose
pebruary 6, 1939. Mrs. Isabel marmwell,(86) 2116 Pearl Plaos, ItArreot name) (&arly chool-teachor Asuman county). nose Olepherd writer. MRS.ISAB'L flxt11LL, ell0c1, rlAchrsn. We had an appointment at 2:30, and as I rang the bell I psereit through the latched screen door and saw mrs. parnwell the writing leek in the plain, but eomfortably furnished living room. it is unusual for any door to be locked in the bungalow, ant as she welcomed me after unlatching the door, i said: "Afraid somebody…
Fernandina, Florida, United States
· 1939-07-30
· 23 pages
Recorded by: Barnwell, Isabel, Shepherd, Rose
Sunday July au, 1939. ire. Isabel Barnwell, Neuva isporanza lap. New Hope) Planta- tion, \\Florida 13, yule. to Fernandina, 6 m. A DAY AT Rose Aenhard, Writer. NUM SSki!'ANZA, (el). NSW HOPS) PLANTATION Aeoempanying Mrs. Barnwell and her daughter on a .unduy visit to Nueva Asperanza (0p. Now Hope) Plantation, a ;punish Grunt given to her great-grandmother, Margaret O'Neill, in 1792, was like glimpsing life of hundred years age, as 're. Barnwell related instanoes and reoulled historic happep-…
Florida, Jacksonville, United States
· 1939-08-14
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Barnwell, Isabel, Shepherd, Rose
August 14, 1960. Mrs. Isabel Barnwell, 2116 Pearl Pleats, Jacksonville, Florida. Rose Shepherd, writer. SLAM OF NUIVIA 3SP2ANZA (SP. NA HOPE PLANTATION, NASSAU 00UNTY, FLORIDA. We were waiting for the operator, Mr. Cook, with the voice -recording machine to gems mud cake records of the old plunta ion songs which Mrs. Barnwell was to ping frog memory of her early ohildhood days en Nuevo AsperanAu (New Hope) Plantation where she was borucon., ,4ril 17, 1864. As she rehearsed the tongs to be sure…
United States, Florida, Jacksonville
· 1939-03-27
· 14 pages
Recorded by: Acosta, Elmo W., Shepherd, Rose
maroh £7, 1939. et. illme4t. Panzer Jaokeenville rarkvommissioner, 133 4dat nay :Areet Jacksonville, olorida. nose ehephord, writer. et. 'WV W. AuO$TA Hr. Aeosta was neon at his vtore, 14,3 haat nay etreet-, oorner 4ewnan and IA, treets, a little late for his 2'p. m. appointment. His mull white delivcry truok, embellished with sloguns in bright rody advertising tho vetriove Wrande of .romis he sells to the hotel and restaurant trade of Jaokuonville and environs, hue beeome a familiar figure to…
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
· 1939-07-17
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Acosta, Elmo W., Shepherd, Rose
July 17, 1v31.1. t. .am0w. ,-oosta„ Former 41401011GAV1110 (Atli Commissioner, la ()harm, of Publio Parks, 133 at Bay-st., jacecionville, Aortas.. A4190 hOphara, Writer. T. SLIM W. ACOSTA (.Additional) Mr. Acosta, interviewod on maroh 27, 149, on Jaokson- villo his tory and his ow* lifo history, sent word that he believed he had emaltoil some imsertuut informu/iou in his previous interview, and askoth: writer to cull again thaL he milht supply this data. Ni'. i.00sta had made an ap,ointment…