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Interview with Dorcas Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1999 (K-0235) [audio clip]

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Title

Interview with Dorcas Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1999 (K-0235) [audio clip]

Description

Carter describes her memories of the influenza pandemic in 1919. She used to want to be a nurse, perhaps because of the pandemic. Her uncle told her she shouldn't be a nurse because there's too much drudgery.

Source

Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Date

25 June 1999

Interviewer

Angela M. Hornsby

Interviewee

Dorcas Elizabeth Carter

Location

New Bern, North Carolina