Interviewer
Mary Melcher
Files
Description
Myrtle Griswold describes how her parents came to Montana, their traveling lifestyle, and why her parents decided she should be born in Massachusetts rather than Montana. She discusses teaching out of high school and deciding to go to college. Interviewee talks about her college experiences and her employment with Oregon Agricultural College. Griswold talks about the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), in which her mother was heavily involved, the 1914 campaign for Prohibition, and women’s suffrage. Interviewee concludes by recalling the dynamics of having only two children at a time when families were traditionally larger, working with her husband on their farm, and making clothes for her children.
When this interview was conducted, the interviewee requested to remain anonymous in the transcript and audio. Archives and Special Collections has chosen to lift this restriction now that the interviewee is deceased.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Montana homesteaders; Women in Montana; Oregon Agricultural College; Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], Montana; Prohibition; Women’s suffrage, Montana
Original Date
5-14-1977
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Montana Women's Oral History Project, OH 049, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 049-018, 019
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
2 sound cassettes (02:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (32 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:14:22 minutes
Local Filename
OH_049_018_019.mp3; OH_049_018_019.pdf
Citation
Griswold, Myrtle, "Myrtle Griswold Interview, May 14, 1977" (1977). Montana Women's Oral History Project. 31.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtwomen_oralhistory/31