Interview with Mrs. Francis Huckins : January 22, 1980
Transcript of interview of Frances Huckins. In this transcript, she describes her early life, but most of the transcript is about her life during WWI in New York at Camp Mills as a hostess. She details her daily life at the camp. Of particular interest are her recollections of her experience with the 1918 flu epidemic and watching the men practice bayonet drills. She also details her travels around the world, including her six month job as a hostess at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii after World War I. After Hawaii, Mrs. Huckins returned to the U.S. and was hired at a tuberculosis hospital in Oteen, North Carolina. The interview concludes with her explaining her affiliation with the Women Overseas Service League.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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1980
- Subjects
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Huckins, Frances, 1896-1981
Women's Overseas Service League
World War (1914-1918)
Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919)
History
Military training camps
New York (State)--Long Island
Hawaii--Schofield Barracks
New York (State)--Camp Albert L. Mills
- Material Type
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Interviews
- Language
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English
- Pages
- 23 pages
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
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