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Betty Hardison describes growing up in Calistoga, CA during the Depression and the impact of the Depression on wineries in the area. She remembers the start of the war, blackouts, rationing, Victory gardens. She recounts moving to the Bay Area and going to work during World War II at the Kaiser shipyards and then for the Housing Authority as a secretary. She describes meeting and working with her husband and their life during and after the war in Richmond, including her lifelong work with the Richmond Art Center.

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Title
Betty Hardison: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project
Creator
Hardison, Betty, interviewee
Selvidge, Sarah, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 2012
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Full Collection Name
Rosie the Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Community and Identity
Commerce, Industry, and Labor
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Text
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Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Hardison, Betty. "Betty Hardison: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project." Interview by Sarah Selvidge in 2010. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2012.
Interview date(s) 2010
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