Catherine MAHON (b. 1906)
Residence: Juliaetta; Lewiston-Clarkston
Occupation(s): Operator of greenhouse and beauty salon; teacher
Family Origin: Father, a New York Irishman, was manager of Juliaetta cannery; mother came from Oregon (1884)
Interviews
Catherine Mahon Interview #1, 8/27/1976
- Topics:
- Limited opportunities for women. Local Jewish families. Books and culture. Southerners in the West. 8-27-76 .8 hr 18p
- Duration:
- 0:47:42
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- Jewish Americans books churches colleges and universities dating discrimination food friendship hotels housekeeping illness immigrants mail carriers sewing teachers telephones women
- Locations:
- Juliaetta Lewiston Genesee
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Catherine Mahon Interview #2, 9/28/1976
- Topics:
- Grandparents' experiences and attitudes; old standards of morality, Lives of prostitutes in Lewiston. J.P. Vollmer and early Lewiston wealth. Dr. Foster and Juliaetta. Mother's sickness as a girl. Cannery and war shortages. Family politics. 9-27-76 3.5 hr 84p
- Duration:
- 3:38:35
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- CCC Prohibition University of Idaho WCTU bootlegging brothels businesses canneries children death divorce doctors drinking families finances food hospitals illness medicine moving orchards politics pregnancy presidents prostitutes saloons teachers telephones women women's rights world wards
- Locations:
- Juliaetta Lewiston-Clarkston
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Catherine Mahon Interview #3, 10/21/1976
- Topics:
- Progressive upbringing in a close family. Openness and equality in the West. Development of Clarkston townsite by proper Bostonians; Clarkston society. Ku Klux Klan; race prejudice. German Catholics. Mother's work as Tribune correspondent. 10-21-76 3.1 hr p
- Duration:
- 3:06:46
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- women newspapers work politics education telephones women's rights families holidays customs mining marriage children presidents orchards canneries water poor homemakers clothing churches Ku Klux Klan clubs games religion world wars immigrants discrimination African Americans Japanese Americans dating music
- Locations:
- Juliaetta Lewiston Clarkston
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Catherine MAHON (b. 1906)", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/mahon_catherine.html
Rights
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