Interview with Clement Booth, 1914-1918 [oral history] / / interviewer: Larraine Stevens

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AuthorBooth, Clem, 1914-1990; Stevens, LarraineDescriptionInterview with Clem Booth. Family background -- Occupations of siblings -- Description of a sheep drive -- Education at Fremantle Boys' 1926-1929 -- Employment while at school: delivered baskets of vegetables to householders for Wing Kee, a Chinese greengrocer; stamped crosses on hot cross buns for Reg Evans, a baker in Parry Street; paper boy -- Employment on leaving school -- Office boy at F.W. Wright's (produce merchant) - duties -- Various jobs in the N.W. eg. shearing shed hand, station hand -- Mail contract -- Americans stationed at Richmond Army Camp (trotting ground) during W.W.II -- Depression -- Building of Dalgety Wool Store, Queen Victoria St. -- Primary education at South Terrace Primary School: subjects, corporal punishment, moral code, lunch, games -- Celebration of Anzac Day -- Secondary Education: Fremantle Boys' School- sport, publication of school magazine, subjects -- Fremantle Technical School -- Mail contract: hours, staff -- After 1937 went to goldfields to work at Marvel Loch Mine -- Courtship and marriage to Daisy Ray Stagg (Rae) in Dec. 1937 -- Wife's family background -- First home -- 6 children -- Managing home -- Outings, radio, magazines/newspapers -- Typical day in 1938 -- Communication and discipline within the family -- Behaviour towards adults -- Class, politics, health care -- Care of the elderly ladies in Old Women's Home, Finnerty StreetImprint1982Collation9 CDsSeries Title Australia 1938 Oral History ProjectLanguageEnglishDate Published1982NotesInterviews conducted by Larraine Stevens on 20th April, 13th, 19th, 26th May 1982 Transcription by: Bridget Miall Access:Open Transcript included Fremantle City Library Local History Collection holds a copy of the tape only. Copies also held by Battye Library, and the National Library of Australia, Canberra (master)Content NoteSUPPORT MATERIAL : see B/BOOTH [Miscellany file] Fremantle City Library Local History CollectionDewey ClassOH /BOOAudio FormatCDDigital ItemYes

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Barcode30118000400717LocationOral History Collection

PeopleClem BoothStagg FamilySubjectDepression, 1929Household economyEducation - GeneralCollectionOral History Collection

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