Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Doris Shea Strand

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Doris Shea Strand (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Doris Shea Strand was born in 1922 in Minnesota. After graduating from high school in 1940, she worked in the main offices of Minneapolis Moline, a farm equipment manufacturer. During the war years the company re-tooled and produced for the war effort. In 1944, she married and relocated to California. In June 1945, she returned to Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Working at Minneapolis Moline; increase in employment of women during the war; brownouts, bond drives, and rationing during the war; writing letters to servicemen; getting married to a Marine during the war; celebration of V-J Day; moving to San Diego and then back to Minneapolis during the war.

Dates

• 03/11/2002 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Strand, Doris
• interviewer: Saylor, Thomas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 112
• Accession Number: AV2006.1.26

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 32 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 71 minutes length

Subjects

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