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Oral history interview with Gladys L. Randall
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- 1980 (Creation)
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0.1 cubic feet; 1 audiocassette (35 min., 24 sec.)
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Gladys Louise Randall, nee Wilson, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1901. She began working as a milliner as a teenager. In the 1920s, she moved to the Hollywood, California, area, and continued to work as a milliner. She returned to Portland in 1936, and in the 1940s she began working with Olga Lanphier, creating hats on their label, Olga & Louise. In 1947, she and Richard H. Randall were married. In the 1950s, she ceded the label to Olga Lanphier, and continued a millinery business from her home. She died in 1992.
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This oral history with Gladys L. Randall was conducted by Emily Renfrow in 1980. In this interview, Randall discusses her early life in Portland, Oregon. She talks about her early career as a milliner in Portland, including the training she received as an apprentice. She speaks about working as a milliner in Hollywood, California, during the 1920s and 1930s, and talks about some of the celebrities she made hats for, including Shirley Temple. She then speaks at length about making and selling hats in Portland on the label Olga & Louise with Olga Lanphier, from the 1930s through the 1950s. She discusses the effect of World War II on her business, and talks about changes in the fashionability of wearing hats. She closes the interview by talking about her early interest in millinery, and about making hats for Mae West.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the estates of Emily Renfrow and Gladys L. Randall. In Copyright - http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- English
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Interviews about Gladys L. Randall, SR 2829, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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Preferred citation: Oral history interview with Gladys L. Randall, by Emily Renfrow, SR 9300, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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A handwritten index (1 page) is available for in-person use at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition.
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Sarah Stroman
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- Renfrow, Emily (Contributor)
- Olga & Louise (Portland, Or.) (Subject)
- Lanphier, Olga, 1904-1990 (Subject)