- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH002935
Lorraine Armstrong Mulcahy interviewed by Jenny Salmon for the New South Wales Western Division oral history project
- Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Reference ORAL TRC 1939/1
- Date Range 3-Mar-83 - 3-Mar-83
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Description
2 sound cassettes (ca. 155 min.) Mulcahey, resident of Hillston, N.S.W., discusses her early family life; her childhood and education growing up in country towns; how she trained to work in a bank; the effects of the Depression; married life and farm life from 1943; her retirement; detailed account of typical town and country life under non-affluent circumstances; describes education over a number of generations; country women’s life and recreations; health and child-rearing; small farm management and the growing use of cropping; the impact of new technology.
- Access Written permission required for research use, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Finding Aid Timed summary available.