| Title: |
Edna Mitchell Loundes
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Virginia Commonwealth University. James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives. Virginia Black History Archives
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| Collection: |
Church Hill Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
This is a taped interview with Mrs. Edna Mitchell Loundes. Mrs. Loundes has agreed to share her remembrances of life in the Church Hill area with us. Mrs. Loundes lived for many years on Pink Street between Venable and Carrington Street. She recalls her grandmother talking about the Howards (on tape but should be Harwood) who owned property along Venable Street, and believes that one of her grandparents may have been a slave on the plantation of this Howard family. This interview is being conducted by Akida T. Mensah in the home of Mrs. Loundes, 615 North 25th Street. The interview is being conducted September 9, 1982.
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| URL: |
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vbha/church/loundes.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1982 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Loundes, Edna Mitchell, 1892-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
16-Dec-1892
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| Speaker place of birth: |
District of Columbia; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Butcher; Cook
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| Age at speaking: |
90
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| Document location: |
Richmond, VA
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| Document date: |
09-Sep-1982
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| Interviewer: |
Mensah, Akida M.
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; Richmond, VA; United States; Virginia
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Historic districts--Richmond (Va.); Neighborhood--Richmond (Va.); North America; Oral history; Richmond (Va.)--History; Richmond, VA; United States; Virginia
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0034084-37429
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