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Genre/Form: | Oral history Autobiographie Quelle oral histories (literary works) Oral histories Biographies Histoires orales Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: First-person America. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1980 (OCoLC)557681070 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ann Banks; Federal Writers' Project. |
ISBN: | 0394413970 9780394413976 |
OCLC Number: | 6448346 |
Notes: | Eighty narratives originally recorded by members of the Federal Writers' Project. |
Description: | xxv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Old times -- Immigrant lives -- The yards -- Industrial lore -- Monumental stone -- Rank and file -- Tobacco people -- Women on work -- Trouplers and pitchmen -- The jazz language -- Testifying. |
Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Ann Banks. |
Abstract:
A collection of 80 life histories, written between 1938 and 1942 by the Federal Writer's Projects, of men and women from all parts of the country.
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