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Audio Recording Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy

[Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy.]

About this Item

Title

  • Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy

Names

  • Murphy, Anne (Narrator)
  • Murphy, Claire (Narrator)
  • Taylor, David Alan, 1951- (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-08-17

Headings

  • -  Interviews
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  Retirees
  • -  Textile industry
  • -  Hours of labor
  • -  Irish Americans
  • -  Family-run businesses
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Totowa

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with retired textile worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire Murphy at their home in Totowa, New Jersey. Anne Murphy was born in Totowa on January 11, 1898.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy. "That was all the women who worked at Newberger's: weavers, pickers. This is Mr. Newberger and that's his brother. [Taylor: Mr. Newberger is on the left. Do you remember his first name?] I think it was Theodore. We never called him by his first name [laughs]. [Taylor: What about his brother? Do you remember what his first name was?] H.T.E. Newberger. I don't know what that stood for. [Taylor: Who is this man here in the front?] That's the foreman. [Taylor: Do you remember his name?] Nicholson. . . . [Taylor: Where are you in the picture?] In the lower left, yeah."

Medium

  • Analog Audio Cassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-A018

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Murphy, Anne, Claire Murphy, and David Alan Taylor. Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy. -08-17, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip000063/.

APA citation style:

Murphy, A., Murphy, C. & Taylor, D. A. (1994) Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy. -08-17. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip000063/.

MLA citation style:

Murphy, Anne, Claire Murphy, and David Alan Taylor. Description of photo of workers at Newberger's towel factory that includes Anne Murphy. -08-17, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip000063/>.