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Oral history interview with Kathryn Killian and Blanche Bolick, December 12, 1979 [electronic resource] : interview H-0131, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Summary:

Kathryn Killian and her sister Blanche Bolick recall their upbringing near Conover, NC, and their careers making gloves. They fondly remember the distant world of their childhood, rich in family bonds and community connection. They are less nostalgic for their working lives, however. Killian is the more talkative of the pair, eager to share her dislike for factory work. Her work arrangement was an unusual one: after the death of her husband, who was crushed by a tree, her employer, also her brother-in-law, set up a glove-making machine in her home, making her both a stay-at-home mom and a working mother. This interview offers a useful look at the working lives of women in the early 20th-century South.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:00:42.
Interview participants: Kathryn Killian, interviewee; Blanche Bolick, interviewee; Jacquelyn Hall, interviewer.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on July 3, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 149.7 kilobytes, 111.1 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0131, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Dorothy M. Casey. Original transcript: 32 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
Subject:
Bolick, Blanche, 1907-2001 > Interviews.
Killian, Kathryn, 1916- > Interviews.
Cottage industries > North Carolina > Conover.
Farm life > North Carolina > Catawba County.
Glove industry > North Carolina > Conover > Employees > Interviews.
Women textile workers > North Carolina > Conover > Interviews.
Catawba County (N.C.) > Social life and customs.
Genre:
Oral histories.

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500 . ‡aText encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
500 . ‡aThis electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
500 . ‡aTitle from menu page (viewed on July 3, 2008).
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520 . ‡aKathryn Killian and her sister Blanche Bolick recall their upbringing near Conover, NC, and their careers making gloves. They fondly remember the distant world of their childhood, rich in family bonds and community connection. They are less nostalgic for their working lives, however. Killian is the more talkative of the pair, eager to share her dislike for factory work. Her work arrangement was an unusual one: after the death of her husband, who was crushed by a tree, her employer, also her brother-in-law, set up a glove-making machine in her home, making her both a stay-at-home mom and a working mother. This interview offers a useful look at the working lives of women in the early 20th-century South.
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536 . ‡aFunding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
538 . ‡aMode of access: World Wide Web.
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