Hilda Smith discusses her career at the REO Motor Car Company
Ninety-six-year-old Hilda Smith recalls her career at the REO Motor Car Company, in Lansing, MI, between 1923 and 1964. Smith talks fondly about her family, her job in REO's Human Resources Department, and her retirement after a forty-two year career. She looks through a scrapbook with the interviewers, identifying managers and coworkers and talks about the REO Clubhouse, movies, and caring for her thirteen siblings. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1992-02-12
- Interviewees
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Smith, Hilda (Autoworker)
- Interviewers
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Fine, Lisa M.
Bradley, Shirley J.
- Contributors
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REO Memories (Project)
- Subjects
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Smith, Hilda
Reo Motor Car Company
Automobile industry workers
Buildings
Employees
Families
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:28:36
- Venue Note
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Interviewed and recorded in Lansing by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Feb. 12, 1992.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16258
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8663252
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