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Title
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Christine Miller oral history interview, 2006 November 19
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Interviewee
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Miller, Christine P., 1927-
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Interviewer
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Miller, Daniel
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Place of Publication
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Publisher
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J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections
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Date of Interview
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2006-11-19
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Physical Description
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1 audio file (30:56) : digital, MP3
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Object Type
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sound recording-nonmusical
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Genre
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spoken word
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Language
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eng
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Interviewee Biography
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Christine Miller was a 79-year-old woman at the time of interview. She was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1927. She had a high school education and was employed as a grocery store cashier and co-owner of a hardware store.
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Abstract
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Christine Miller recounts her life growing up in Salisbury, North Carolina, as well as her forty years living in Charlotte. She describes living on her family's five-acre farm in the country outside of Salisbury and her time working at Ketner's Super Market, a predecessor to the Food Lion chain of grocery stores. Mrs. Miller speaks highly of Mr. Ketner and the flexible work schedule she was allowed after the birth of her first child. She discusses how she juggled home, work, and raising three children, explaining that she would work on the days her husband did not so there would always be one parent at home with the children. Her family moved to Charlotte for her husband's job in the late 1950s, and she recalls her extended family's perception of Charlotte as a big, dangerous city. Mrs. Miller goes on to discuss Miller True Value Hardware, the store she and her husband owned in Charlotte, including her role in running the business and their neighbor's generous contribution in helping them finance their business.
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Digital Object Notes
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MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
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Audio Condition Note
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Background noise.
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Interviewee Occupations
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Businesspeople
Cashiers
Supermarkets--Employees
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Subjects--Names
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Miller, Christine P., 1927-
Ketner, Glenn, Sr., 1912-2007
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Subjects--Organizations
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Super Market (Salisbury, N.C.)
Food Lion
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Subjects--Topics
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Country life
Working mothers
Small business
Hardware stores
Tithes
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Subjects--Geographic
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North Carolina--Salisbury
North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Charlotte--Hickory Grove
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Subjects--Genre
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Interviews
Oral histories
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Coverage--Dates
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1930-2010
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Digital Collection Title
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David Goldfield student project on change in the Charlotte region
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Digital Project Title
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Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city
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Rights
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The materials included on this web site are freely available for private study, scholarship or non-commercial research under the fair use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code). Any use beyond the provisions of fair use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication, broadcast, redistribution or mounting on another web site always require prior written permission and may also be subject to additional restrictions and fees. UNC Charlotte does not hold literary rights to all materials in its collections and the researcher is responsible for securing those rights when needed. Copyright information for specific collections is available upon request.
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Grant Information
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Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Internet Media Type
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audio/mpeg
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Identifier
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GF-MI0349