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Fairfield Oral History Collection- Transportation

Collection, Ms B110

1973 – 1975
Fairfield Museum
In 1973, Elizabeth Johnson, Fairfield Historical Society curator, conducted a series of oral history interviews for the Fairfield Public Library centered on transportation facilities in Fairfield, Connecticut in the late 19th and early 20th century. The collection was given to the Fairfield Historical Society by the Fairfield Public Library.
The collection contains audiotape cassette interviews, transcriptions and supporting documentation including unrestricted transfer of ownership rights for nine oral history interviews of elderly Fairfield citizens. The interviewees ranged in age from 65 to 101 (Homer Sturges). While the subject of the interviews is transportation in Fairfield in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including public, farm, business, and transportation routes, the interviews tend to range farther afield covering personal and anecdotal memories including school days, family life, housing, employment, recreation and more.
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