Polly Mason oral history interview, 1971.

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Polly Mason oral history interview, 1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244443352

In the interview, Mason describes her master, Judge Henry Boyce, and her life on his cotton plantation in Boyce, Louisiana. Included are her memories of northern soldiers in Louisiana during the Civil War, her sadness upon the assassination of President Lincoln, the establishment of a station for the Texas and Pacific railroad in the area, and her first view of an airplane.

1 sound cassette (45 minutes);Interviewer's essay (10 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132707

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

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Mason, Polly, 1855-1974,

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