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Oral history interview with Edith Robertson, January 6, 1985
Contact MOHAI to OrderEdith Robertson was born in Kansas City. She moved to Spokane in the early 1930s and Seattle in 1933. She worked as a waitress and a beautician before going to work in the shipyards during World War II. In this interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on January 6, 1985, Robertson recalls the bombing of Pearl Harbor; getting a job at the shipyard where her husband worked (without his help) as one of the first female workers in the sheet metal department on the graveyard shift; female worker resistance to wearing bandannas; workplace culture; her assumption that her shipyard work would not last; Japanese incarceration; and changes in fashion.
Copyright agreement: Yes
Digitized: Yes, from analog cassette to .wav files and to CD (.cda files)
Re-Digitized in 2025 from analog cassette to .wav file.
Transcript: Yes, scanned from original analog to .pdf; original hard copy in admin file.
Copyright agreement: Yes
Digitized: Yes, from analog cassette to .wav files and to CD (.cda files)
Re-Digitized in 2025 from analog cassette to .wav file.
Transcript: Yes, scanned from original analog to .pdf; original hard copy in admin file.
ID Number: 1985.134.20
Date: 1985
Physical Description: 2 sound cassettes (65 min. 37 sec.) : analog + 1 transcript (22 pages)
Additional Information: Inventoried as part of a 2018 4Culture Collections Care grant.
View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv89619
View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv89619
Credit: MOHAI, Life on the Homefront Oral History Collection, 1985.134.20
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects:
World War II, 1941-1945 (WWII),
Aerospace,
Manufacturing,
Women's Rights,
Labor and Labor Unions,
Japanese American Incarceration
Media:
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