- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH002413
Yvonne Armstrong interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Reference ORAL TRC 3406/16
- Date Range 22-Mar-95 - 22-Mar-95
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Description
1 sound cassette (ca. 27 min.) Armstrong, a farmer, speaks of her upbringing, her job in Sydney as a nurse, the fruit farm she manages with her husband, the Orange Export Co-operative, the exportation of fruits to South-East Asia, improvement of the fruits to satisfy an international market using more modern technology, the Integrated Pest Management programs, the Apple and Pear Corporation, her striving for equality between the sexes, her husband’s involvement in industry groups and the cycle of harvesting of the various fruits she owns.
- Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Finding Aid Transcript available (typescript, 13 leaves)