Oral history interview with Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, May 27, 1980
Subtitle: interview H-0250, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Tullos, Allen, 1950- interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Women; Women textile workers; Factories; Employees; Mills and mill-work; Employment; Social life and customs; Families
Other titles: Interview H-0250, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, May 27, 1980; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Evelyn Gosnell Harvell grew up on a farm owned by her father in Tigerville, SC. In this interview, she recalls her family's life in Tigerville and more than three decades of mill work as a weaver. Harvell shares a number of characteristics with other mill workers interviewed in this collection: she enjoyed a rewarding childhood, she liked the work she did at the mill, and she was suspicious of unions. Harvell's brief answers to the interviewer's questions -- and the interviewer's frequent use of yes-or-no questions -- makes this interview more useful for gathering information than gaining a sense of life in the early 20th-century rural South.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on October 24, 2007).

Interview participants: Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer.

Duration: 00:53:21.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0250, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 26 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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