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Yvonne Armstrong interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 2782830
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Armstrong, Yvonne, 1939-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1995 
1 sound cassette (ca. 27 min.) : analog, mono. 
Series

Women of the land oral history project

Summary

Armstrong, a farmer, speaks of her upbringing, her job in Sydney as a nurse, the fruit farm she manages with her husband, the Orange Export Co-operative, the exportation of fruits to South-East Asia, improvement of the fruits to satisfy an international market using more modern technology, the Integrated Pest Management programs, the Apple and Pear Corporation, her striving for equality between the sexes, her husband's involvement in industry groups and the cycle of harvesting of the various fruits she owns.

Notes

Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".

Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Has accompanying photograph.

Recorded at Nashdale, New South Wales on Wednesday 22 March 1995.

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 13 leaves) 
Subjects Armstrong, Yvonne, - 1939- - Interviews.  |  Orange Export Co-operative.  |  Integrated Pest Management (Program)  |  Australian Apple and Pear Corporation.  |  Rural women - Australia - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Australia - Social conditions.  |  Fruit-culture - New South Wales.  |  Nashdale (N.S.W.) - Biography.  |  Australia - Commerce - Southeast Asia
Other authors/contributors Bowden, Ros, Interviewer  |  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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