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COLLECTION Identifier: Mss:463 1824-1966

Plymouth Cordage Company records

Plymouth Cordage Interviews for Freedom Speaks Program Disk 1, circa 1950s Digital

Scope and Contents Plymouth Cordage Interviews for Freedom Speaks Program Disk 1, Side 1: 1. Stanley Cheney; 2. Mr. Sherff & Mr. Searles; 3. Walter Caar. Disk 1, Side 2: 1. Walter E. Caar, continued; 2. Lawrence Mossey; 3. George Kaiser Stanley Cheney, Manager of the Fiber Department, discusses the places he's visited that produce the fiber for cordage; what type of fibers are produced where; his average day at the Plymouth Cordage plant; logistics of buying, selling and shipping cordage; the association...

Plymouth Cordage Interviews for Freedom Speaks Program Disk 2, circa 1950s Digital

Scope and Contents Plymouth Cordage Interviews for Freedom Speaks Program Disk 2. Disk 2, Side 3: 1. Katherine Michael; 2. Ameglio Fortini. Disk 2, Side 4: 1. Silva, continued; 2. Alfredo Stefani; 3. Dan Fergus. Katherine Michael discusses how she was born in Germany, came to the United States with her husband to better themselves, works at the Plymouth Cordage Company, and her activities outside of work. Ameglio Fortini, who works in the receiving department, discusses how the fibers arrive by boat or rail,...

Plymouth Cordage Interviews for Freedom Speaks Program Disk 3, circa 1950s Digital

Scope and Contents Plymouth Cordage Interviews for Freedom Speaks Program Disk 3. Disk 3, side 5: 1. Albert E. Osbourne; 2. L. M. McKee Interviews conducted at Mill #2 with Albert E. Osbourne, formerly of England, regarding his emigration to American following his son who was given a scholarship by the Perkins School for the Blind, his son's piano playing, and differences between the United States and England. Leonard Matthew McKee, the foreman of Mill #2 balling department, discusses the market for certain...