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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [Sixty years is a long time] Jane K Seary Field Worker rage 1 re Living Lore The Irish Shoemaker of Lynn Sixty years is a long time ta have a cuttin knife in your hand but ya linow...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 2 6 eA4 Akoilte tiptR1 A But it dint put the sho worker of Lynn out a work as much as it did fellas in other lines a work that is...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [Sixty years is a long time] lage 3 At noon and on Saturday afternoons wed stay there andnther read or play cards But as I said before them days are gone and them shops are empty and we...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 4 1 wuz born in Ireland in County Cork jest a year before the Civil War begun in America My father came ta Amer ica before I wuz born for there...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 5 I remember askint my mother fur a drink a water when we got ta New York A big nigger brought it Ohl Ohl Mall screamed It wuz the first time...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 6 __hen I went inta the cuttinl room I started at the beginnin First I learned how ta dink out pieces of waste leather for the trimmins To dink out leather...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 7 the time come when the slack time in that other shop was over and they came after me to learn the rest a my trade V Oh I guess notO...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 8 A Cuttint wuz always skilled work but specially so after tan shoes come fifella could be a dang good cutter fur black shoes but wunt be worth a durn cuttin...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [Sixty years is a long time] But none of us wanted the job of boil a colored cutter even though we got more pay fur it It wus less pay in the end fur it took too much...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [Sixty years is a long time] The guys that went ta see their best girls in yella shoes long about twenty five years ago dint have no idea how hard it wuz fur the fellas in the cuttin...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 9 I remember once though during the Ws how it wuz a lot like it is Aday though not so long MOst a the shops had No help Wanted on their...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 12 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 1C11 After that time the 1830s that is after the strikes about that time the foreigners started ta get inta the shops was never one to say 444 was a bad...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 13 of [Sixty years is a long time] From Section 11 page 5 lotto folks Lhe strikes brought in a imimmxpmmplm from the provinces Canada and a lot from down Maine Later the Greeks come and the Italians the Germans...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 14 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 11 But they gt in the shops just the same and every year morein more squeezed in startin at the jobs the rest of us dint want and workin themselves up...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 15 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 12 And the Jew ya see is a shrewd creature And hes no hypocrite If he dont believe in that love your neighbor business he comes right out and says so...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 16 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page 13 Is he a Catholicf they asked me III told them I dint know and I didnt I never saw him go to Mass Is his wife and child Catholicsq they...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 17 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page Yes I believe in churches The world needs fem And the Catholic Church is a good church and it does a power ful lot of good It ought ta Its the...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 18 of [Sixty years is a long time] Page Aunt Mary presented a no less broad religious view The way I look at it is that theres many roads ta heaven Im on one or so I think A Protestant...
- Contributor: Seary, Jane K.
- Date: 1938