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American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection
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Item Title
Oral history with 89 year old male, Whick, Kentucky (Transcription)
Author/Creator
Speaker: Strong, Manford
Created/Published
Unknown
Notes
Collector's institution: Appalachian Oral History Project. Lees College Library. Jackson, KY
89 year old male. Retired from railroad in 1952. Born and raised in Whick, KY.
Talks about working on the railroad.
Incomplete transcript.
Loose transcription up to 18:50.
Subjects
United States--Kentucky--Whick
English language--Dialects--Kentucky
Men--Kentucky--Whick--Language
Railroads--Employees
Manual work
Railroad passenger cars
Work cars (Railroads)
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007.
African American railroad employees
Railroad sidings
Railroad signal towers
Railroad accidents
Interviews
Call Number
AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,351, folder 61
Part of
Center for Applied Linguistics Collection
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afc1986022 ms6103
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1986022.ms6103