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Title
Mildred Noble Oral History
Creator
San Jose Historical Museum Association
Date Created and/or Issued
1992-01-06
Contributing Institution
History San Jose Research Library
Collection
California Revealed from History San Jose
Rights Information
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Description
Noble's interviews documents growing up in Massachusetts, her experience as a Girl Scout in the 1920s, attending Framingham Teachers College, before meeting her husband William Roberts Noble. They married in 1934 and drove cross-country to California; the interview details the trip, and later life in San Jose during the Great Depression, as well as her work with seniors and the Salvation Army on nutrition programs in the 1970s and 1980s. Two interviews conducted on January 6 and January 9, 1992 at Noble's home, 424 Third Street, San Jose.
Type
text
Format
Copy
Identifier
casjhsj_000391
ark:/13960/t46q9gc1m
Language
English
Subject
Great Depression--California
Women
Time Period
1910/1980
Place
San Jose (Calif.)
Santa Clara County (Calif.)
Provenance
History San Jose
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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