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Oral history interview with Kathryn Killian and Blanche Bolick, December 12, 1979 interview H-0131, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

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

Interview with Kathryn Killian and Blanche Bolick, December 12, 1979 (portion title)
Interview H-0131, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Killian, Kathryn 1916- (interviewee). Bolick, Blanche 1907-2001 (interviewee). Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd (interviewer). 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: 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: 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: 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.
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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.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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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
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