Annie Aldrich interview, ca. 1970s.

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Annie Aldrich interview, ca. 1970s.

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Topics include family history; the reasons her parents came to Copper Country; her father's work as a mine captain; celebrating Christmas and the Fourth of July; school; marriage to physician Addison Aldrich in 1907; life as an physician's wife; church life; social life; flu and typhoid epidemics; ethnic relations; a strike; temperance movement; suffrage; the WPA; Italian American community near Baltic; rationing; and killing wild game for meat.

Transcript : 22 p.

Finnish American Historical Archive and Museum

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