| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 2, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Keywords |
WWII; World War II |
| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 2 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
The interview continues with Gavino's being drafted in 1943 at the age of eighteen and sent to New Zealand. He talks about combat in New Guinea and the Philippines, the behavior of conquered Japanese during occupation, and the condition of Japanese cities. Other topics covered include women working for Kennecott, postwar working conditions at the mine, unions and strikes, being evicted from company houses to make room for mine expansion, employment practices at Kennecott, Father Miersman, accidents and safety, family marriage customs, and Mormon religion and culture. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
123 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s60w0kgs |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; World War (1939-1945); Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893095 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs |
| Title |
Page 55 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893024 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-12-85 sl: 5 for tobacco) but you didn't find one . You'd use the little match boxes. Andit took me about a half a year to get out of of that dumb group, dumb reading book t hat t hey used to call. Just Mexican kids in that dumb reading book . Because none of us knew the language. We just didn't know t heJa.nguage at all. So. L Were the teachers strict? EA They were. I think they were. I remember some of the kids getting hit with the ruler or on the head, you know, thingslike that. But you know, mysister, the one that follows me, Rebecca, she tells about getting hit on the hands with the ruler. I don't remember what she was doing, but she'll say, she hit me. She did hit me. I don't know what she was up to because that girl was smart . . I mean, by the time .Ebe went-she was - like I said, we were speaking English at home by then. L Sosbe must have picked it up. EA Yes. Andof course, we told , THEY'-'RE GOING TO call you to do ·.this and todo this. So if;i0u know ahead of time what to expect, I think-- L So you prepared her. really. EA Yes. And I went to school From kindergarden to .. high school with some of the kids. And sometimes at our reunion, we still get together.And we laugh over some of the things we did when we were grade school Because they £ill remember. Iremember this last |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/893024 |
