Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Beatrice Kellgren

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Beatrice Kellgren (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Beatrice "Bea" Kellgren was born in Minnesota in 1915. She attended one year of college in Illinois and returned to Minnesota to work several different jobs. She married in 1937. With the onset of war in 1941, her husband found work as an aeronautical engineer with Boeing in Seattle. They returned to Minnesota following the war in 1947. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Changes that took place after the attack on Pearl Harbor; rationing during the war, sale of war bonds, and blackouts; experience of moving to Seattle during the war; husband working for Boeing; having two children during times of shortages; helpful community of women in Seattle whose men were serving abroad; returning to Minnesota after the war.

Dates

• 04/01/2001 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Kellgren, Beatrice
• interviewer: Borkenhagen, Daniel
• interviewer: Brandt, Thomas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 112
• Accession Number: AV2006.1.15

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I' <OH 112>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 25 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 69 minutes length

Subjects

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