Vermont, United States
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
RoaldLs Richmond 1'40 THE.GS. h rTE: "Loyalist? That sonofabitch Franco, who wouldn't be a Loyalist? We're all Loyalist. 1-iy brother was killed fighting at Teruel. Lzy mother was killed by bombing in ladrid. kid sister died on the way to the French border, starved to death. If I'd been back there I would've been dead toe. I would've grabbed a gun and fought those bastards until they got me. I wanted to get into it. I had letters from home all the time. but I never could save enough money for…
Washington County, Barre, United States, Vermont
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Gerbati, Mrs, Richmond, Roaldus
19850 Mr. Roaldus Richmond Assistant Director Federal Writers' Project SUNDAY aFTERNOOF -T M -RS. GERBATI'S The Sunday afternoon session at Mrs. Gerbati's was in full swine. In the kitchen the talking was mostly in Italian. The old grandmother who sat in the corner by the stove spoke nothing else. Her face was deeply wrinkled, her eyes dull, and her shawled shoulders were thin and bent under the weight of years. She was untroubled by the confusion and din, with- drawn far into memory or…
Old Town, Maine, United States
· 1938
· 17 pages
Recorded by: Comeau, Steve, Grady, Robert
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FT= NOTES (Check one) PUB. _Livinz _Lore iwNew 4grjaql (Maine) TITLE Steve Canaan. Prep& Canadian WRITER Robert _path! DATE WDB. PP. 16 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN (I) -41ter7itriv COMIIENTS Maine Living Lore Old Town 1 ADDITIONAL PERSONAL HISTORY OF STEVE COMEAU, FELNCH CANADIAN 93 Steve Comeau, According to my notes Comeau said he left Canada in 1896, went to Gteenville and worked there in a saw mill for six months. He then went to Watrville where he worked for one and a…
Maine, United States, Old Town
· 1938
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert, Lavoie, Alex
OhIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. Livi)* Lore in New Esg2.and (Maine) TITLE Alex Lavoie, Freach Canadian WRITER Robert Grady DATE WDS. PP. 3 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN (T) Interview COMMENTS Maine Living Lore Old Town 1 PERSONAL HISTORY OF ALEX LAVOIE, FRENCH CANADIAN Alex Lavoie knows a lot about the old French customs and enjoys talking about them. He is about 47 years old and just now is work- ing on a VRA road project. Leblanc is a French Canadian who came. to Old Town in 1908…
Maine, United States, Old Town
· 1938
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert, Green, William
ORJAiINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in New Euland (Maine) TITLE William 9reen. French Canadian WRITER Rolert Grady DATE WDS. PP. 5 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN CO Interview COMMENTS LIalne Livine Lore Old Town 1 PERSOLAL hiSTORY CP WILLI:AL CREEL, FRENCI. CAEADIAN Green, irenc_ American. Lived in Canada when younz, but born in Van Euren in leOZ.:. 76 -:ears old. Lives with his wife and married son, Adam, who is their oniChild. The couple Lid adopt a child named Flolenc…
United States, Illinois
· 18 pages
maul 'fox; iIIL LL I DO? When you live like I done people J.ve you a line all the time, all day long wherever you're at. All day lceif, everybody's givin everybody else a line, and after a while without thinkin much about 14,., one way or another, just trying to get along you know, there you are civin somebody u line just like everytme else is doin only what you're really doin is just givIn yourself a line I guess, 'cause nobody is listenin to anylody.else these days awOhow, every- body's just…
United States, Illinois, Chicago
· 1939-04-14
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Banks, Charley, Eskew, Garnett L.
Accession no. Date received 1‘)//Q/4,0 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from Jf ice Label Amount 4p WPA L. C. PROJECT ltd.:Litz& UNIT ol lo re Collection (or Type) itiecicac f o list uff' "It a Forzn-3 Place of origin (.2.41,cr,,:;_je, Ill Project worker Garnett L. Saks, Date Project editor Remarks Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview CHICAGO FOIXSzurr FORMA Circumstances of Interview STATE Illinois NAME OF WORKER Garnett I. Eskew ADDRESS 4700 Kenwood Avenue DATE April 14, 15, 1939 SUBJECT…
United States, Illinois, Chicago
· 1939-05-03
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Eskew, Garnett L., Sims, George
r Accession no. 3637 Date received 10/10/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from Wash. Office Label Amount WPA L. C. PROJECT. Form -3 Yitlt4r4' UNIT Folklore Collection (or Type) Tftle_The_blaok south in Chioago Place of originChP:setio, Illinois Date ..5/3119 Project worker___Carwat L, Lskoar Project editor Remarks FORM D Ext;a Ccmment CHICAGO FOLKSTUFF FOLKLORE CHICAGO STATE Illinois NAME OF WORKER Garnett L. Eskew ADDRESS 4700 Kenwood Avenue DATE Nay 3, 1939 SUBJECT The Black South in Chicago*…
Illinois, United States
· 1938-04-20
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Eskew, Garnett L., Sims, George F.
Accession no. 3634 Date received 100/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from lash. Office Label Amount 3p )-,c• _ WPA L. C. PROJECT UNIT Form --3 ilaiti.D.r...__Collection (or Type) Title....N1I1X9...1.9r.9 St_f„r_Ci. PAVIT Place of origin ChiCajgRa I.1taois Date. 4/208 Project worker Garnett L. Esker, Project editor Remarks STATE NAME OF WORKER ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview CHICAGO FOLKSTukk FORM A Circumstances of Interview Illinois Garnett L. Wow 4700 Kenwood…
Chicago, Illinois, United States
· 1939
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Eskew, Garnett L.
Garnett Laidlaw Bakst, 4700 Kellwood Avenue Chicago, Illinois COOKTINE IN MANHATTAN On a bright October afternoon I walked along pier -lined West Street that borders the Hudson shore in New York City. Near at hand the city roared past; beyoudIrose the Jersey daft's. Here,,, on West Street there is always a crowding and pushing of ocean vessels --transatlantic and coastwise ships; freighter and "luxury liners" -saying in at their berths, thrusting sharp prows against the very city pavements, or…
United States, Illinois
· 1939-06-14
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Philip, Alfred O.
CHICAGO FOLKSTUFF VAUDEVILLE CHAPTER 1 Alfred 0. Philipp No. Words am 14 During the last quarter of the nineteenth century there emerged from the beer gardens, honky-tonks, variety dhows and music halls a distinctly American form of entertainment Vaudeville. All the conglomerate of specialty and novelty acts from the minstrel "first parts" and "afterpieces", the "olio" or burlesque, and the feature specialties of the hippodrome and variety show combined in bringing to fruition this new lusty…
Illinois, United States
· 1939-06-14
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Philip, Alfred O.
Alfred 0. Philipp CHICAGO FOLKSTUFF VAUDEVILLE CHAPTER 2 No. Words JUN 14 1939 Vaudeville being the malting pot of all theatrioalia it is logically to be expected that its folklore would derive macho! its color and character framtbe circus, drama, minstrel, and other amusement forma that preceeded it. But many slang expressions were already obsolete when they were dragged into the variety theatres by old timers from other fields. One such is the scurrilous term "lard actor, an early…
United States, Illinois, Chicago
· 1939-06-14
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Philip, Alfred O.
WPA L. C. PROJECT 2' ivritera.!_. UNIT Form -3 •A 3646 Date received 10/10/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from Wash. Offise Label Amount Ep kszolkl.Pre Collection (or Type) Tftk Vaudeville in Chieao Place of origin Chi!QagQ, Date.644/39 (r.D.C.) Project worker Altred 0. Phi 1 lipp Project editor Remarks Lt Alfred 0. Philipp No. Words VAUDEVux.v,DiaHICAGO. 41N 41 Time 1919 PLACE "The Corner." "Meet me at Dearborn and Randolph." The Midwest edition of New York's famed Times Square. For Chicago…
United States, Chicago, Illinois
· 1939-04-01
· 12 pages
Recorded by: Kendall, Eddye H. B., Philip, Alfred O.
Accession no. W 3644 WPA L. C. PROJECT UNIT Form -3 I.Kliki.(211) Collection (or Type) Date received 10,/) 0/40 Consignment no. Shipped from Wash. Office Label Amount lip Title .bar booking_ agenay Place of origin Chicago, Illinois Date 4/4/461i Project worker Alfred 0. Phillipp Project editor Remarks STATE NAME OF WORKER ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT 1. Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM A Circumstances of Interview CHICAGO FOLKSTUTT FOLKLORE CHICAGO Illinois Afred 0. Phillipp 144th. St.…
Illinois, Robbins, United States
· 1939-04-06
· 22 pages
Recorded by: Philipp, Alfred O.
Accession no. WPA L. C. PROJECT _ Form -3 UNIT s645 Date received 10/1U/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from *ash. Office Label Amount 21p Eakil:tril__Collection (or Type) Title Robbins I11, A folklore In zakta& Place of origin Midlothian, 1119 Date 4L6139 Project worker .A.1fre3d 0. Philli.PP Project editor Remarks STATE NAME OF WORRIER ADDRE54 DATE SUBJECT Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview AMMAN FOIESTUFF FORM A Circumstances of Interview Illinois Alfred 0. Philipp 144th Ridgeway Ave.,…
United States, Illinois
· 5 pages
Accession no. f= WPA L. C. PROJECT Form --3 UNIT IN 3647 Date received 100/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from Wash, Offloo -Label Amount 4p ilakl.9ra_Collection (or Type) Titielassitionn..liissia Christens. at-linia Roma Place of origin Chi.0111404. Illinois Date....11/1. 15/11 Project worker Hilda Polashssk Project editor Remarks FORM C Text of Interview (Unedited) FOLKLORE CHICAGO STATE Illinois NAME OF WORKER Hilda Polacheok ADDRESS 1410 East 57th Street DATE SUBJECT American Lives…
Illinois, United States
· 9 pages
STATE NAME OF WORKER ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview CHICAGO FOLKSTUFF FORM A Circumstances of Interview Illinois Hilda POlacheok 1410 Bast 67th Street April 13, 1939 The Hull...House Devil Baby 1. Date and time of interview.. 2. Place of interview., Hull -Rouse 3. Name and address of informant Personal contact 4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant,. 5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you 6. Description of…
United States, Illinois
· 6 pages
Acc ssion no. WPA' L. C. PROJECT Form --3 Writer' UNIT W 3662 Date received 10/10/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped front lash. Offiss Label Amount 5p hilkleril_...Collection (or Type) Titieliports...tswiimint) Place of origin..C.bitiliggs....111L110.1.4 Date..1011 Project worker 811S.X.9111 Project editor Remarks Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLEICEE STATE NAME OF WORKER ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT CHICAGO FOLKSTUFF FORM A Circumstances of Interviei Illinois Sam Ross 713:. Rush Street April…
United States, Connecticut
· 1939-03-16
· 16 pages
Recorded by: Mrs. B
Win uk BiilDwiskJela TKRVISW WITH MRS. 8.7 Clinton Aro. Sumey we walkod up a dart flight of stairs to tho door of a* 140210100k (Ivo a vacant 'tor-. The hallway,originally paint** bright bins. IOW reeked and dirty; the stairs were narrow and worm. At the tipp-ile airs, a narrow hall led to a bathroom at oneonds and to the dpae rtment at the other. Tao open door to the bathroom showed ea old °nod, white enameled bathtub. A woman's voice answered our kmoOk WI 11 to "Coss ins.. when we out our…
United States, Connecticut
· 1939-03-08
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Mrs. A, Russo, P. K., And M. G. Sayers, "growth Of Bridgeport"
1-3RIDowpe)k-tir°1 1-.K.RUSSO MAR 8 Ad INTli.NIEe wITH 'r:R.7!. A., CLINTUa AVENUE SURVEY. The writers interviewed a resicent of one of the ramsnacklfe., six -family tenements on lower Clinton Avenue. We knocked at the door one of the two downstair flats. A.aroman of about thirty two (probably younger) opened the door, we began explaining our measons for being there, but she interrupted us to say, "won't you please come in." we stepped in- to a small, dark living room (about 10 by 10). Along…