Interviewer
Kathryn P. "Kathy" White
Files
Description
Rhoda Richardson discusses her parents’ childhoods, their marriage, and the jobs her father took before the family moved to Lothrop, Montana. She describes how her close relationship with her mother and boarding with friends in Missoula while getting her high school education. Richardson recalls the sex education her mother gave her and moving back to Missoula because of her mother’s illness. She describes working as a stenographer during the Depression, her social life at church, and the evolution of women’s style.
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
Women in Montana; Lothrop, Montana; Ranches, Montana; Sex education for women; Great Depression, 1929-1939; Women’s fashions; Stenographers
Original Date
3-24-1977
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 049-037
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (01:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (31 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:02:47 minutes
Local Filename
OH_049_037.mp3; OH_049_037.pdf
Citation
Richardson, Rhoda, "Rhoda Richardson Interview, March 24, 1977" (1977). Montana Women's Oral History Project. 41.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtwomen_oralhistory/41