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Title
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Alice M. McCall oral history interview, 1979 May 24
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Interviewee
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McCall, Alice M. (Alice Murray), 1912-2006
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Interviewer
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Causby, Anna
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Contributor
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McCall, Johnston V. (Johnston Vannoy), 1902-1993
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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 and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Date of Interview
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1979-05-24
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Physical Description
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1 audio file (11:08) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (7 pages : PDF)
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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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Alice M. McCall was a 66-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1912. She was educated at Queens College and was a business owner and teacher.
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Abstract
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Alice M. McCall recounts growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1910s to the 1930s. Topics discussed include her father's tailoring business, playing pranks on streetcar drivers as a child, memories of the end of World War I, changes in uptown Charlotte, and her displeasure at having to transfer to Queens College because it was a women's college.
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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 reel to reel, duplicate compact disc reformatted.
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Interviewee Occupations
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Teachers
Businesswomen
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Subjects--Names
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McCall, Alice M. (Alice Murray), 1912-2006
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Subjects--Organizations
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Queens College (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Subjects--Events
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World War (1914-1918)
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Subjects--Topics
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Entrepreneurship
Cable cars (Streetcars)
Radio
Single-sex schools
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Subjects--Geographic
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North Carolina--Charlotte
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Subjects--Genre
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Interviews
Oral histories
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Coverage--Dates
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1910-1980
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Digital Collection Title
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Ed Perzel WSOC project on twentieth century Charlotte
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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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Internet Media Type
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audio/mpeg
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Related Interviews
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Johnston V. McCall oral history interview, May 24, 1979, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A1565)
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Identifier
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OH-MC0104
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Handle URL
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:423