Description

Mabel was born in Leheigh, Oklahoma in 1897, and she arrived in Craig when she was seventeen. Her father was a Choctaw Indian. She married in 1915. Her husband, Earl, worked in the community and they had two children. She speaks about: Baptists, entertainment, horse and buggies, 8th grade education, clubs, housework, food preparation, winter, 1918 flu, and camping. Mabel died in 1986.

Details

Title Blevins, Mabel Davis
Creator Blevins, Mabel Davis interviewee
Jones-Eddy, Julie interviewer
Date Created 7/20/84
Material Type text
spoken word
still image
Form of Work Interview
Subject (Person) Blevins, Mabel Davis, 1897-1986
Subject (Topic) Oral history
Women
History
Frontier and pioneer life
Genre/Format Personal narratives
Audio recording
Oral histories
Interviews
Geographic Coverage Colorado
Moffat County (Colo.)
Craig (Colo.)
Extent 4 text files (26 pages)
1 audio file (30 min.)
1 image file (color)
Language English
Record Appears in Special Collections > Women of Northwestern Colorado Oral History Collection
Notes Oral histories were collected by Julie Jones-Eddy in 1983-1986. Permission forms were obtained at the time of interviews. This oral history collection of forty-seven interviews with women between the ages of sixty-five and ninety-five years of age is the result of a two year project begun in 1984. It was supported by a grant from the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to the tape collection, the grant also funded the production of a videotape program which highlights selective portions from some of the interviews. "Women of Northwestern Colorado, 1890-1940: Glimpses of Our Lives" is available at Tutt Libray and other libraries around the state.The original files are housed in Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, R1000. Audio files: WAV and MP3 were processed from original cassette tapes using Soundforge; a Marantz 221 PMD cassette player/recorder. Settings recommended by the Colorado Digitization Project, Digital Audio Best Practices. Each tape is set at 96kHZ, 24 bits. Images: Scanned from photos and slides to JPEG. Text materials: Scanned to PDF and processed to PDF/A using Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Reproduction Note reformatted digital
2/15/09
Standard Rights Statement Copyright reserved, non-exclusive rights granted to Colorado College for distribution. Contact Colorado College Special Collections for more information (tuttspec@coloradocollege.edu).

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