Lorna Mitchell interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5158948
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mitchell, Lorna, 1913-2014, interviewee
- 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. 68 min.)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Lorna Mitchell talks about her family circumstances, her mothers work as a dressmaker and grandmother's boarding house; her stepfather; a move to Kunanalling; her schooling at South Kalgoorlie State School and at Kunanalling; their hessian house at Kunnanalling; refrigeration; neighbours; prospectors in the vicinity; the Stamp Battery; collecting wildflowers; life being free; the Kunanalling Post Office and store; their first car; moving to Coolgardie; Coolgardie State School, Hospital and hall; dances in Coolgardie and the picture theatre; studying at night school; her first job; work being hard for women to get; the riots in Kalgoorlie (1934); her work in the Railway Hotel with Mrs Lewis the owner; meeting her husband Rex, a mining registrar and Secretary of National Football League; their marriage at Kalgoorlie Cathedral (1934); her daughter; working for Red Cross during WWII; collecting blood for the war; Dr Oxer; Committee of the Red Cross; post war Kalgoorlie; working with disabled students; teaching mentally handicapped children; Ethel Miller; being paid by the Education Department; School of the Air children; Fresh Air League; her twenty years of teaching; her retirement; standing for the Kalgoorlie Council, being the first woman to be elected; improvements for Kalgoorlie; support from her husband and her satisfaction with her life.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 6 April 2011 in Kalgoorlie, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 42 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fitzgerald, Criena, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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