Scope and Content Note
This collection houses transcripts of oral histories conducted with 29 Arizona women. Among the subjects covered are migration to Arizona, childhood recollections, family life, employment outside the home, religion, military service, marriage, childrearing, and politics. Also included is supplemental biographical information provided by interviewees.
Dates
- Creation: 1981
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.
Copyright
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Historical Note
The Arizona Women's Heritage Project was sponsored by Arizona State University's Women's Studies Program, funded by the Arizona Humanities Council, and directed by Mary A. Rothschild and Linda L. Salmon. Its interviewers, including Rosemary Diaz, Pamela Hronek, Maria Hernandez, Deborah Peska, and Linda Salmon, conducted interviews in 1981 with women born before 1906 who had lived most of their adult lives in Arizona in order to gather information regarding the role of women in the state's history, focusing on growing up in Arizona, marriage and family, community building, and work for pay. The interviewees are representative of typical citizens rather than prominent community leaders and come from the city of Phoenix, the rural areas of the Salt River Valley, and the mining towns of Globe and Miami.
Full extent
1 Linear Feet
Full extent
2 Box(es)
Abstract
This collection houses transcripts of oral histories conducted with 29 Arizona women. Among the subjects covered are migration to Arizona, childhood recollections, family life, employment outside the home, religion, military service, marriage, childrearing, and politics. Also included is supplemental biographical information provided by interviewees.
Arrangement
This collection consists of two boxes.
Provenance
The Arizona Women's Heritage Project transferred these materials to the Arizona Collection in 1982.
- Title
- Arizona Women's Heritage Project Oral Histories
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Elizabeth Dunham
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Greater Arizona Collection Repository
Contact
Arizona State UniversityP.O. Box 871006
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 United States
(480) 965-4932
archives@asu.edu