Bess Vickers interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1297609
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Vickers, Bess, 1927-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1995
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 68 min.) : analog, mono.
- Series:
- Women of the land oral history project.
- Summary:
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Vickers speaks of problems due to the lack of rain, the 1980s drought, hardship on the farm, her family, her background as teacher, her learning experience on the farm, being flexible according to the weather, breeding goats, analysing goats' behavior, shearing goats for cashmere, testing fleece measurements, growing crops, her family.
- Notes:
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- Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".
- Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- Has accompanying photograph.
- Recorded at Carcoar, N.S.W. on Wednesday 22 March 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 30 leaves.)
- Subject:
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- Vickers, Bess, 1927- -- Interviews
- Rural women -- Australia -- Interviews
- Rural women -- Australia -- Social conditions
- Women in agriculture -- Australia
- Droughts -- Economic aspects -- New South Wales
- Goats -- Breeding -- Australia
- Kashmir goat -- Breeding -- New South Wales
- Wool measurement
- Carcoar (N.S.W.) -- Biography
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Women of the land oral history project.
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- Until 2065 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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