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Oral history interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977 interview H-0121, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977 interview H-0121, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977 (portion title)
Interview H-0121, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Gilbert, Frank Carman 1894-1980 (interviewee). Dilley, Patty (interviewer). Gilbert, Don (interviewee). Gilbert, Frank Carman Mrs (interviewee). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Frank Gilbert recalls his laboring life in and around Conover, NC. Gilbert worked a variety of jobs in North Carolina industries and also taught and did odd jobs until settling into a sixteen-year stint as machine foreman at Conover Chair. Gilbert, who is joined at times by his wife during the interview, spends most of his time discussing his family background and work life. For its length, this is not a particularly rich interview, but it does offer some insights into rural, laboring life in western North Carolina and touches on some themes of interest to researchers: dealing with poverty during the Great Depression, the tenor of rural communities, narratives of laboring, and racial integration.

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

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General Note:
Duration: 03:17:35.
Interview participants: Frank Gilbert, interviewee; Mrs. Gilbert, interviewee; Don Gilbert, interviewee; Unidentified Speaker, interviewee; Patty Dilley, 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.
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Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 388.6 kilobytes, 361 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0121, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 93 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.

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Subject:
Gilbert, Don Interviews
Gilbert, Frank Carman Mrs Interviews
Gilbert, Frank Carman 1894-1980 Interviews
Conover Chair (Firm)
Depressions 1929 North Carolina Conover
Employees North Carolina Social life and customs
Furniture workers Health and hygiene North Carolina Conover
Furniture workers North Carolina Conover Interviews
Furniture workers North Carolina Conover Social life and customs
Lumber trade North Carolina Conover Employees Interviews
Catfish (N.C.) Social life and customs
Conover (N.C.) Race relations
Conover (N.C.) Social life and customs
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