Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Tony Martinez

Titles: Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Tony Martinez (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Tony Martinez was born in St. Paul on Oct. 31, 1932, and attended Lafayette, Franklin and Lincoln schools in St. Paul before graduating from Johnson High School. He worked in the fields with the Cortez family, entered the military in 1950, and worked with a private mapping company and the state highway department's mapping department. Later he established the Martinez Orthography Company, of which he is owner and president. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: His life as a worker in the fields; schools; the armed forces; and his start as the owner of a business.

Dates

• 06/18/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Martinez, Tony
• interviewer: Moosbrugger, Grant

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 49
• Accession Number: AV1996.92.40

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Mexican-American Oral History Project' <OH 49>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 12 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:25:00 running time

Subjects

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