Genevieve Maurine Melcher Interview

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Title	Genevieve Maurine Melcher Interview
Date	1980-07-18 and 1980-07-19
Interviewee	Melcher, Genevieve Maurine
Description	Interview by Lynn Dunlap as part of Washington Women's Heritage Project . Interview topics include : Geographic Locations: Fairhaven, Fort Bellingham, Lummi Island, Spokane, Tonasket Subjects: Father worked on "Indian Territory" Survey, building wooden streets in Fairhaven, Fort Bellingham, gardening, food production, cannery work, homesteading Lummi Island, mother's childbirth, emotional breakdown, poverty, illness: alcoholism, consumption, typhoid fever, migration to Bellingham by train, pioneers, description of dwellings, agriculture, nature, Indian/Settler relations, school memories, 1920 influenza epidemic, use of derogatory comments and terms for Japanese, Native Americans, teaching career, Spokane, Tonasket, mining, ran a resort. Canadian patrons receded during WWII; bankruptcy.
Listen to Audio	No audio available.
Transcript	Partial transcript available at : http://west.wwu.edu/cpnws/findingaids/cpnws/Transcripts/WWHP/MelcherG19800718-19transcript.pdf
Contributors	Dunlap, Lynn
Collection Name	Washington Women's Heritage Project records
Repository	Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Additional Information	For more information about this resource, contact the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123. Tel: (360) 650-7747. Please cite the Identifier name/number.
Document Type	oral histories (document genres)
Language	Materials entirely in English.
Digital Collection	Washington Women's History Consortium- Oral Histories
Digital Format	pdf
Date of Digital Object	2007-06-01
Identifier	MelcherG19800718-19
Grant Project	Funding to digitize this resource was made available by a grant from the Washington State Legislature to the Washington Women's History Consortium.
Publisher	Published by the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Rights	Permission to publish or display this resource must be obtained from the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University.
Subject	Women--Washington (State)--History--Sources
Geographic Subject	Washington (State)

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