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Interview with Nell M. Conley [Transcript]
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- 1981-03 (Creation)
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Transcript; 30 pages
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Nell Marie Conley, nee Hurley, was born in 1918. In 1938, she and John Woodrow Conley were married; they later had one child. During World War II, she worked as a welder and crane operator for the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon. After the war, she worked as a telephone operator. She died in 2013.
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Transcript. This oral history interview with Nell M. Conley was conducted by Sara Cook and Amy Kesselman in March 1981. In the interview, Conley discusses her experiences as a welder and crane operator at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation. She talks about using the shipyard day care center, about her commute, and about her involvement in a fashion show for welders. She discusses some of the people she worked with, her membership in the Boilermakers Union, and the treatment of the women workers after the war. She describes her job duties as a crane operator and talks about working as a telephone operator after the war. She closes the interview by sharing her observations on the treatment of Black shipyard workers. Complete transcript available (30 pages).
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estate of Nell M. Conley. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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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)
- Cook, Sara (Contributor)