Title Work

Title No: 690

Title: Interview with Mary Ellen Leary

Medium: Audio; Moving Image

Original Medium: Film; Recorded Sound; Video

Date: 16 Mar  1992 (Created)

Interview with Mary Ellen Leary conducted for The Great Depression. Discussion centers on life in San Francisco during the Great Depression, Harry Bridges, and internment of Japanese Americans, and the migration of farm workers to California from the Dust Bowl.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 55 min 5 sec 

Genres: Interview

Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers--California--History--20th century; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939; San Francisco (Calif.)--Social conditions; Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Name As Subjects: Leary, Mary Ellen; Sinclair, Upton; Bridges, Harry

Subject : Mary Ellen Leary
Used in Episode Number : 318