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Audio Recording Oral history with 85 year old white female, Mesa County, Colorado

Oral history with 85 year old white female, Mesa County, Colorado

About this Item

Title

  • Oral history with 85 year old white female, Mesa County, Colorado

Names

  • Nagel, Emma C. (Speaker)
  • Fuller, Miller (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1977

Headings

  • -  English language--Dialects--Colorado
  • -  Older women--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
  • -  Mesa County (Colo.)--Social life and customs
  • -  Frontier and pioneer life--Colorado--Mesa County
  • -  Women, White--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
  • -  Pioneers--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
  • -  Christmas--Colorado--Mesa County
  • -  Orchards--Cororado--Fruita
  • -  Gardening--Colorado--Fruita
  • -  Rabbit hunting--Colorado--Fruita
  • -  Swedish Americans--Colorado--Mesa County--Social life and customs
  • -  Log cabins--Colorado--Mesa County
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Narratives
  • -  Oral histories
  • -  Personal narratives
  • -  United States -- Colorado -- Mesa

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Narratives
  • Oral histories
  • Personal narratives

Notes

  • -  For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO
  • -  85 year old white female. Born in Potter, NE 5/9/1892. Came to High Point District near Fruita in Mesa county, CO in 1894 in a covered wagon. Parents, Frank Berg and Mary Anna Johnson were born in Sweden.

Medium

  • Audio tape; 10.5” reel, 7.5 ips; duration: 14:00

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,307 b03

Source Collection

  • Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (AFC 1986/022)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line
Center for Applied Linguistics collection (AFC 1986/022), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

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Chicago citation style:

Nagel, Emma C, and Miller Fuller. Oral history with 85 year old white female, Mesa County, Colorado. 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000070/.

APA citation style:

Nagel, E. C. & Fuller, M. (1977) Oral history with 85 year old white female, Mesa County, Colorado. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000070/.

MLA citation style:

Nagel, Emma C, and Miller Fuller. Oral history with 85 year old white female, Mesa County, Colorado. 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afccal000070/>.