Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Chambers Bradley Hamilton

Titles: Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Chambers Bradley Hamilton (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Mary Chambers Bradley Hamilton was 100 years old at the time of the interview and grew up in the Rondo neighborhood. She lost her father when she was 12 years old and lived with her mother and six sisters in Rondo. She graduated from Neill School and went on to Mechanic Arts. After three years in Mechanic Arts, she got married and later had five children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: History of the movement of bodies from early cemeteries until the establishment of Calvary and Oakland cemeteries; history of the Cathedral and other Catholic churches in St. Paul; life as a single young mother raising her children in the Rondo neighborhood; her pleasure in being senior royalty for the Winter Carnival three times.

Dates

• 02/26/2004 - 03/19/2004 (Interviews conducted 2/26/2004 and 3/19/2004.) (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Cavett, Kate
• interviewee: Hamilton, Mary Chambers Bradley

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 110.15
• Accession Number: AV2007.22.15
• Link to Finding Aid

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Rondo Oral History Project' <OH 110>

Quantity: 1 sound cassette 54 pages transcript 2 audio files

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:32:48 running time

Subjects

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