Aida Salmon interviewed by Josie Castle in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2088874
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Salmon, Aida, 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 July 29
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 180 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born in Newtown, Sydney, Salmon speaks of her parents' background; father's employment; her brothers; death of her mother; living at Ormond House at Paddington with little brother; foster homes in country; running away; memories, living conditions at Ormond; memories of World War I; employment; foster home on farm at Yarrah in Riverina, family, school, life on farm; leaving for Sydney when war broke out; employment in factory; experiences and conditions working in cigarette factory, lifestyle, unions; her health; recreation; involvement with women from a University Settlement; work as a domestic servant; conscription referendum; 1917 strike; Armistice Day; meeting husband; her glory box; marriage; home; her children; life in Corrimal in 1920s; the community; childbirth; families; deaths in her family; politics; joining the Communist Party; other political parties; her work as wife and mother; entertainment; life in Depression; involvement in Peace movement; May Day celebrations.
- 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-216248238
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) and transcript available: 3 v.(39 p.,44 p., 26 p.).
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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