Interview with Emma Mitchell, July 9, 1987
Project: Remembering the Vote and Much More Oral History Project
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Emma Mitchell gives a good overview of her family and life with references to work, education, salaries, her family living off the land (farming), the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, whiskey used as medicine, her home building and buying skills, and a bit about politicians, vote buying and selling, and Congresswoman Katherine Gudger Langley (Pikeville, Kentucky).Interview Accession
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Mitchell, Emma Interview by Linda Wireman. 09 Jul. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Mitchell, E. (1987, July 09). Interview by L. Wireman. Remembering the Vote and Much More Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Mitchell, Emma, interview by Linda Wireman. July 09, 1987, Remembering the Vote and Much More Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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