| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10 |
| Alternative Title |
Jose Medel, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, October 9, 1970; Louis Amador, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vince Mayer, Greg Thompson and Floyd O'Neil, December 3 and 8, 1970; Mrs. Francis Yañez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, May 21, 1971; Señor Santos Cabrerra, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, January 4, 1971; Mrs. Ellen Córdova, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martínez, June 15, 1973; Mr. Francisco Solario, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Floyd A. O'Neil and Vincent Mayer, December 19, 1970; Jesús and Agapito Castillo, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, June 13, 1971 |
| Creator |
Medel, José, 1907- ; Amador, Louis, 1908- ; Yañez, Mrs. Francis, 1886- ; Cabrerra, Santos, 1886- ; Córdova, Ellen, 1904- ; Solario, Francisco, 1910- ; Castillo, Jesús, 1924- ; Castillo, Agapito, 1923- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Mayer, Vincent, 1944- ; Thompson, Gregory C. (Gregory Coyne), 1943-; O'Neil, Floyd A.; Martínez, Bernice |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1970-10-09; 1970-12-03; 1970-12-08; 1970-12-19; 1971-01-04; 1971-05-21; 1971-06-13; 1973-06-15 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--History; Mexican Americans--Utah--Biography; Mexican Americans--Utah--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Utah |
| Keywords |
Migrant workers; Farm labor; Railroad workers; Mexican Americans; Mexican Revolution; Labor movement; Catholic Church; Guadalupe Mission; Miners; Utah Copper; Chicano; Mexican Civic Center; Mexican consuls; Discrimination; Mexican immigrants |
| Description |
Transcript of interviews held in 1970, 1971 and 1973 at Salt Lake City with various Hispanic residents of Utah: Jose Medel (b. 1907), Lous Amador (b. 1908); Mrs. Francis Yañez (b. 1886); Santos Cabrerra (b. 1886); Mrs. Ellen Córdova (b. 1904); Francisco Solario (b. 1910); ; Jesús and Agapito Castillo (b. 1923 and 1924). From: Spanish Speaking Peoples in Utah, oral histories, Interviews no. 1 - 7, 8 - 10 |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng; spa |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
For description of each interview, see: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23580 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 10 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6mw46tt |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1038425 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mw46tt |
| Title |
Page 201 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1038294 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTERVIEW: Cordova Page 11 I am sure that if anyone else wanted employment and they could do the work that he would gladly hire them and send them out. BM Was he a younger man, or how old was he? EC Jeff? No, he was older than my husband, but he never married. BM He never married. EC No, and he died quite young, too. BM So what was your husband's job? EC Just as a helper there, I guess. BM He, you said that he used to take out the men to the railroad. EC Well, no, if they have to go for quite a distance he would just take them to the railroad station and then they would send them up on the railroad. Then there would always be someone at the other end to meet them. There was times when my husband would go, if they couldn't get enough people here, my husband would go down to California and work through an employment office down in Los Angeles and all up and down the coast to ... BM Recruit. EC Recruit, that is the word I have been trying to think of. Recruit the men, yes, if they couldn't get enough here in Salt Lake. BM Oh. So he must have had alot of contact with different businesses and railroad people to know where the jobs were. EC Yes. Well, it was mostly, this for the sugar company was mostly |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mw46tt/1038294 |
