Oral history interview with Naomi Sizemore Trammel, March 25, 1980
Subtitle: interview H-0258, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Griffith, Florence, 1911- interviewee; 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 textile workers; Orphans; Social life and customs; Textile workers; Employment; Child labor
Other titles: Interview H-0258, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Naomi Sizemore Trammel, March 25, 1980; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Naomi Sizemore Trammel grew up in the country but found it necessary to move to a nearby mill town at the age of ten when her parents died and she and her older sister had to support themselves. Trammel began a lifetime of textile mill labor in the spinning room of Victor Mill in Greer, SC. She describes her experiences there and at two other mills before she left the working world at mid-century. Trammel began work as a child, but her job did not prevent her from having fun. In fact, for the duration of her employment in the mill industry, she recalls working at a comfortable pace and finding time for recreation. This interview offers a modicum of insights into mill work in early 20th-century South Carolina and one mill worker's experience of some of the formative events of the era, including the Great Depression and the 1918 influenza epidemic.
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Interview participants: Naomi Sizemore Trammel, interviewee; Florence Griffith, interviewee; Unidentified Speaker, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer.

Duration: 00:59:37.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0258, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Rachel Osborn. Original transcript: 43 p.

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

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