[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 interview...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Smith, Hilda (Autoworker) (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
Smith, Hilda > Interviews.
Smith, Hilda.
Smith, Hilda > Family.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Reo Motor Car Company > Employees.
Reo Motor Car Company > Buildings.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (28 min., 36 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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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.
Note:Title supplied.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Voice 16258
Playing Time:00:28:36
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Lansing by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Feb. 12, 1992.