Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Conroy

Titles: Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Conroy (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Mary was a very early advertiser in the Minnesota Women's Press, both because she thought it was good business and to support Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. She was an avid reader of the newspaper, and participated in several bookgroups. Mary had her own business - a State Farm agency - and was the first female agent hired by State Farm in Minneapolis. She used both the newspaper and the Minnesota Women's Directory as resources for her female clients in her work. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Description of early advertising interactions with MWP; advertising results and feedback from customers; description of May Sarton Book Group II and biography/memoir bookgroup; Glenda Martin [co-founder and co-publisher] as a bookgroup leader; values and impact of MWP; MWP as a feminist business; good business as a reason for success.

Dates

• 08/02/1999 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Conroy, Mary
• interviewer: Brewer, Kathryn Balstad

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 75
• Accession Number: AV2001.34.7

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project' <OH 75>

Quantity: 1.5 hours sound cassette 13 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 60 minutes length

Subjects

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