Hilda King interviewed by Josie Castle in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2088034
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- King, Hilda, 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 July 28
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Lithgow, N.S.W., King speaks of her family background; father's employment; school; employment conditions in cafe shop; family; World War I; family moving to Sydney and then Port Kembla in 1915; family home; working in uncle's shop; employment in boarding house as a domestic; work conditions; workings of guest house; marriage; her husband, his employment; piano playing; her children; childbirth; her brothers and sisters; family life; childhood memories; Christmas; the first ANZAC day; family reading; recreation as a child; 1917 general strike; Aboriginals at Port Kembla; family health; family life and household when married.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the N.S.W. Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (N.S.W.)
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216247474
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