Collection

Oral history interviews with members of personal study group at Calaroga Terrace, Portland, Oregon

• 1984-02-02 - 1984-03-08 (Creation)

0.1 cubic feet; 1 audiocassette (50 min., 29 sec.)

These brief oral history interviews were conducted by Jim Strassmaier from February 2 to March 8, 1984, with several members of a personal study group at Calaroga Terrace, a senior living community in Portland, Oregon. The interviewees, Louise McKinney, Edris E. Becker, Catherine S. Walyer, and Ruth E. Murphy, were residents of the community. Strassmaier conducted the interviews while developing methodology for the Oregon Historical Society oral history program. In these interviews, the interviewees look at photographs; discuss their family backgrounds; and talk about their experiences during the Depression.

Joint copyright for these interviews is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estates of individual interviewees. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

• English

Gift of Jim Strassmaier, September 2011.

Preferred citation: Oral history interviews with members of personal study group at Calaroga Terrace, Portland, Oregon, by Jim Strassmaier, SR 11246, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition.

Sarah Stroman

• Depressions--1929--United States
• Older women--Oregon--Interviews

• McKinney, Louise (Alice Louise), 1908-1993 (Subject)
• Becker, Edris E. (Edris Evelyn), 1913-2001 (Subject)
• Walyer, Catherine S. (Catherine Stickel), 1916-1992 (Subject)
• Murphy, Ruth E. (Ruth Ella), 1924-2004 (Subject)

• oral histories (literary works)
• Interviews