Eva Ardeen Vatland Thomson Interview, 2002

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Eva Ardeen Vatland Thomson Interview, 2002

In this interview Eva Thomson (b. 1939) discusses her early life in Fort Benton; moving to Libby when she was a child; her mother's work preserving food-canning vegetables and meat; playing in the old Zonolite expanding plant; her father's work for W. R. Grace collecting samples; social life and community of Libby in 1950s; her Norwegian heritage; her volunteer work with volunteer ambulance including work with forest fires; asbestos related illnesses in her family and friends; impact of deaths; uses of vermiculite; and impact of vermiculite mining and asbestos on community of Libby. (OH 2010)

3 Cassette tape(s)(3 hours, 20 minutes) Analog Transcript 62 p

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SNAC Resource ID: 8150677

Montana Historical Society Library

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W. R. Grace and Co. is an American chemical business based in Columbia, Maryland. It produces specialty chemicals and specialty materials in two divisions: Grace Catalysts Technologies, which makes catalysts and related products and technologies used in petrochemical, refining, and other chemical manufacturing applications, and Grace Materials and Chemicals, which makes specialty materials, including silica-based and silica-alumina-based materials, used in pharmaceutical/consumer, coatings, and ...

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