Melba Shannon interviewed by Warwick Eather in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 534514
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Shannon, Melba, 1899-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 Feb. 27
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 180 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Broken Hill, NSW, Shannon speaks of her family background; parents' occupations; father's gambling; family; education and school; father's death from silocosis; sisters' later lives; family home; recreation; family life and interests; childhood memories; clothing; environment ; local community; family discipline; relatives; family roles; celebrations; transport; reading material in the home; social life; church; religion and religious discrimination; family health; memories of employment in confectionary shop, work conditions; minding children; meeting husband, courtship, wedding, honeymoon, life after marriage; complications with birth of son and continued health problems; life with husband and son; mother-in-law; raising son; politics and unions; communist party, WWI; conscription referendum; husband and his job at BHP; 1922 shut down and affect on family.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a Bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216169982
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available : 3 v. (32 p., 32 p., 25 p.).
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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