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Oral history interview with Maxine Kroner
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Kroner discusses her parents and family life in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She describes working as a teacher before her marriage, raising seven children, and becoming involved in women's organizations.
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- Creator
- interviewed by Michael D. Schendel
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- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
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- 1987
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- 2 audiotape reels (approximately 90 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 5 in 2 Audiocassettes, 1 CD
- OCLC
- ocm47096442
- Interviews form basis for student reports cataloged separately.
- Forms part of: La Crosse Urban History Project, 1945-1960, conducted by students of History 325, American Urban History, at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse in 1987.
- Tape 1: Birth, Dodgeville, Wisconsin, 1927 - Family struggles, Depression, 1929 - House in North La Crosse, Wisconsin - Religion and education, Catholicism - Employment, parents - Education, St. James Elementary School and Aquinas High School- Employment, World War, 1939-1945- Thoughts on Franklin D. Roosevelt programs, Depression 1929 - Profession, teaching- Teaching, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Move to La Crosse, marriage and pregnancy - Thoughts on working mothers- Rural education, 1918- Decline of large families- Church and school organizations, involvement - Attitude of Church, ecumenism, c.1950s- Housewife life, community involvement- Politics, La Crosse, Wisconsin - YMCA, involvement
- Tape 2: YCMA, involvement and activities - Ethnic and religious groups, division, La Crosse, Wisconsin - Meeting husband, Aquinas High School- Aquinas High School, built in 1927- Ethnic groups, division, La Crosse, Wisconsin - Husband's organizations, veteran - Children, growing up- Polio scare and vaccines