Violet McRae interviewed by Jenny Salmon in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2109703
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McRae, Violet, 1906-, 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 Dec. 1
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born in Braidwood, NSW and brought up on family farm at Monga, McCrae speaks of her parent's background in local district, family history, description of family's water powered saw mill; local history; mill operations; description of family home; recreation; local skating rink, local community; her schooling; lifestyle on family farm; farm animals, changes in local weather patterns; droughts; brothers and sisters life during the depression; government allowance for looking for gold; local transport; social life when growing up; family's first car; family reacing; memories of Braidwood; religion; a local village that no longer exists; transport of goods from the coast, bullocks on mountain roads; travelling to the coast; living conditions when young; food and diet; life during winter; foxes, rabbits and dingoes, pests on the farm; the environment and changes she has seen to local vegetation.
- 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-216342353
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.) and transcript available: 1 v. (29 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- Unpublished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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