Savina Patroni interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5158946
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Patroni, Savina, 1923-, interviewer
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 1 sound file (ca. 36 min.)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Savina Patroni talks about her Italian family background; her siblings; her husband emigrating after WWII following his brothers arrival before WWI; meeting her husband in Italy; her work as a dressmaker and tailor during the war; Milan; husband asks her to come to Kalgoorlie; coming to Australia by ship; Diptheria; landing in Fremantle; the train trip to Kalgoorlie; their first house in Kalgoorlie, electricity on after five years; missing family; Italian neighbours; family move to live near her; food and refrigeration; learning English; husband's work; birth of children in hospital; garden work, sending carrots and cabbage to market; her children's careers; dressmaking; speaking Italian at home; carting water from the bush by bucket for the house and the water bag; outside toilets; coping with Australia; compares Milan to Kalgoorlie; Italian families living near Somerville Gardens; understanding dialects of neighbours; returning to Italy for a visit; men's camps; first impressions of Australia; cousin visits from Italy and brought her own small gas stove; regularly writing long letters to Italy; how it is easier for men to migrate and then find work than women; her husband working with his brother; hotel work in Kalgoorlie.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 5 April 2011 in Kalgoorlie, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 30 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fitzgerald, Criena, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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