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Interview with Alice A. Erickson [Transcript]
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- 1981-06-05 (Creation)
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Transcript; 15 pages
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Alice Acenath Erickson, nee Crockett, was born in Nebraska in 1900. When she was 16 years old, her family moved to South Dakota. In 1918, she and Elmer Raymond Spore were married; the couple moved to Idaho and later had four children. Spore died In 1941. That same year, Erickson moved to Portland, Oregon. She worked as a tack welder and a driller in the shipyards during World War II. In 1963, she and Harry Erickson were married. She died in 2002.
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Transcript. This oral history interview with Alice A. Erickson was conducted by Amy Kesselman on June 5, 1981. In this interview, Erickson discusses her early life on farms in Nebraska and South Dakota. She talks about her reasons for coming to Oregon in 1941, then discusses her experiences as a tack welder and a driller in the shipyards in Portland. She describes her job duties, talks about the treatment she received from her male coworkers, and discusses jobs she held after the war. Complete transcript available (15 pages).
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland
- Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—Employees
- Henry J. Kaiser Company—Employees
- Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees
- Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees
- Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees
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- Kesselman, Amy Vita, 1944- (Contributor)