| Title: |
Reminiscences of Esther Mae Scott
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP89-A20
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Black Women Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family history; recollections of her grandfather, Monroe Prentiss, and his work as a plantation blacksmith, tenant farming; youth in Mississippi, playing guitar for a traveling minstrel show; impressions of Bessie Smith; work as a house maid for 27 years; beginning career as a singer in her seventies; physical and economic difficulties of later life.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 49 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact Schlesinger Library for information. Original oral history held by: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1977 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Scott, Esther Mae, 1893-1979
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1893
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| Speaker occupation: |
Domestic servant; Singer
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| Age at speaking: |
84
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| Document date: |
1977
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| Interviewer: |
Danley, Theresa
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African American families; African American singers; African Americans--Songs and music; Domestics; Oral history; Singers
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Scott, Esther Mae, 1893-1979
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0020701-16142
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