Bertha Tolmie interviewed by John Shields in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2050287
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tolmie, Bertha, 1901-, 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 Mar. 12
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 105 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Gympie, Queensland, Tolmie speaks of her family background; father's death; mother and her work; family; childhood; family life; homes and home conditions; recreation; family health; school; employment; apprenticeship in tailoring business, work and conditions; 1917 strike; work after the birth of her children in 1925; meeting husband; raising her children; husband and employment; family life in the Depression with husband unemployed; child endowment; sex and pregnancy; relationship with husband; World War I; conscription referendums; politics; Jack Lang; step-father and step-family an conditions at home when they came to live.
- 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-216172969
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.) and transcript available: 2 v.(49 p., 28 p.).
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This belongs to the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
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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- Unpublished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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