Agnes Laver interviewed by Judy Wing in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 581223
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Laver, Agnes, 1900-, 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 Oct. 29--Nov. 3
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 140 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born in Goulburn, NSW, Laver speaks of her parents background in Scotland and Australia; family home in Goulburn, moving to Sydney with family at 16; family life; food and diet; childhood memories; career goals; leisure activities; school experiences and memories; religion and church; striving for higher education and the need for independence; exams; pharmacy apprenticeship in Sydney, attending lectures at Sydney University, course work, pharmacy work, dispensing, chemicals used, types of medicines and their components, prices; life and experiences at University; employment discrimination; buying a pharmacy in Pambula, NSW, the district, experiences in the business; meeting her husband; husband's employment in wildlife preservation; courtship and marriage; sex education; family values; birth of children; raising her children; politics; 1917 general strike; WWI; pharmacy exams; equipment; different chemicals, substances and their medical uses.
- 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-216305873
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available : 3 v. (35 p., 33 p., 20 p.).
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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