- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Katherine Smith
- Contributor to Resource:
- Smith, Katherine
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-10-18
- Subject:
- Smith, Katherine--Interviews
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- interviews
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
image/jpeg - Description:
- In this interview, Mrs. F. C. Smith talks about her life as a mining camp doctor's wife. Smith's husband was hired by the mining company to run a small hospital on company grounds. Smith recalls that her husband tried to keep his work and home life separate, so she doesn't know much about the injuries he treated. She also says she didn't mix with the miners very much. However, she does remember them going on strike and the University of Alabama sending cadets to break it up. Despite that, Smith remembers many details of camp life. She recalls the camp school, which taught the children a lot of practical things like cooking and sewing. Smith herself said she spent many of her days sewing. She bought her groceries at the commissary. She also explains that she had a black mammy for her children. Smith says, "I felt funny living in a mine." Rather than receive mail at and address that revealed that she was in a mining camp, she used the number of her street.
The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/270
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.
- Original Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
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