Golden Gate Bridge Workers oral history collection
Scope and Contents
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Labor Archives received a grant from the California Council for the Humanities to conduct interviews with nine bridge workers, two wives of bridge workers, and two nurses who cared for workers hurt on the job. Between April 4 and August 6, 1987, ten interviews were conducted by Harvey Schwartz as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Workers Oral History project.
Dates
- 1987
Creator
- Schwartz, Harvey (Interviewer, Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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Extent
20 Cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recordings of ten interviews with Golden Gate Bridge workers, some of their wives, and nurses who cared for them, conducted by Harvey Schwartz. These interviews were collected between April 4 and August 6, 1987, as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Workers Oral History Project.
Acquisition Information
Oral histories conducted by Harvey Schwartz in 1987.
- Adams, Martin (Interviewee)
- Blue collar workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Bridges -- Design and construction -- Employees
- Brusati, Fred (Interviewee)
- De Weese, Pat (Interviewee)
- Divita, Fred A. (Interviewee)
- Feliciano, Mary Zita (Interviewee)
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Design and construction
- Lambert, Evan C. (Interviewee)
- McIntyre, Alvina (Interviewee)
- McIntyre, Glenn (Interviewee)
- Noren, John (Interviewee)
- Urban, John (Interviewee)
- Vestnys, Bert (Interviewee)
- Vestnys, Mary Louise (Interviewee)
- Vestnys, Walter L. (Interviewee)
Creator
- Schwartz, Harvey (Interviewer, Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Golden Gate Bridge Workers Oral History Collection
- Author
- Finding aid created by Marissa Friedman
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu