Foreman Crawford interviewed by Inge Riebe in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2104102
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Crawford, Foreman, 1891-, 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 July 27--Aug. 5
- 8 sound cassettes (ca. 240 min.)
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Crawford speaks of family home; family life; meals; brothers and sisters; family values and discipline; childhood memories; his upbringing; family farm, milking cows and chores on the farm; recreation; family outings; transport; clothes; religion, Catholic and Protestant rivalry; celebrations; childhood games; parents' backgrounds; relatives; family health; the local environment of bush and rainforest; clearing the land; local Hindus; family roles; childbirth; school; local students and their background; local Aboriginals and their culture; Queen Victoria's Jubilee; Boer War; politics; leaving school to work on farm, work, lifestyle; leasing the farm from mother after father's death; buying animals, building new accommodation with brother; farm workers, including migrants from the Dreadnought Scheme; memories of WWI, brothers going to war, helping the war effort, running the farm, conscription, the end of the war; memories of the general strike of 1917; women during the war; meeting his wife; their courtship; fruit growing and share farming, farm management and produce; local dairy factory; family life.
- 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-216291884
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available : 8 v. (16 p., 17 p., 16 p., 15 p., 17 p., 16 p., 10 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- Unpublished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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