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Purser, Fred - Interview

Item number (ISN):

423470

Series title:

Living Histories. The Great Depression

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1999/2000

Item number (ISN):

423470

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

HUNT, Paul

Accession:

2009-0042

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1999/2000

Production company:

Five Corners Communications

Production credit:

interviewer, Paul Hunt

Description:

Unedited interview of Fred Purser describing his memories of growing up during the Great Depression. He talks about his father working at International Harvester in Hamilton, Ontario; picking string beans; playing baseball, football, hockey, wooden knives, pocket knives, chestnuts; living in the city using vouchers and food stamps; sense of community and everyone helping each other; relief women; delivering magazines; ice trucks; Sunday school; Tim Buck speaking at a meeting; doing odd jobs; friends with kids of a different nationality; hockey sticks and hand-made dart board as Christmas gifts; being thrifty and picking up pennies; studying Physical Metallurgy at McMaster University later on; industries in Hamilton that are no longer around; respect for others; making model airplanes; becoming a draftsman; Depression ending when war started; and getting a job at Victory Aircraft working on Lancaster bombers. <1h 30mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. "Tape 12" on side B of first cassette; "Tape 13" on side A of second cassette; "Tape 14" on side B of second cassette.~2. Transcript available.~3. Audio cassettes correspond to the video interview ISN 419467.Consultation: Consultation on the textual records (including those on electronic form) is yet to be determined. Consultation of the video and sound materials is open.Open~2. Transcript available.~3. Audio cassettes correspond to the video interview ISN 419467.

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Vault ISN:

508663

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2401AV
2403AV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

90:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

679875

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

423470-2401AV-S1.WAV
423470-2401AV-S2.WAV
423470-2403AV-S1.WAV
423470-2403AV-S2.WAV

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

2401AV
2403AV

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

679876

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

423470-2401AV-S1.MP3
423470-2401AV-S2.MP3
423470-2403AV-S1.MP3
423470-2403AV-S2.MP3

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

2401AV
2403AV

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

Open

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Paul Hunt

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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