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Catherine Moore, Clip 2: Life in a to Brooklyn tenement

Collection: StoryCorps Collection at The Archives at Queens Library
Date: Time Period: 1950 - 2011; 2011-11-01; Interview recorded: November 1, 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:04
Creator: Catherine Moore interviewed by Susie Tanenbaum Identifier: aql:22281 scc-cm-clip-000002

Description: When she was seven years old, Catherine Moore moved with her family to a Brooklyn tenement near her grandparents' home. It was a four-room cold water flat, but she tells the story of some neighbors who had even fewer amenities in their apartment than hers did.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:22325

Creator : Catherine Moore interviewed by Susie Tanenbaum

Date : Time Period: 1950 - 2011; 2011-11-01; Interview recorded: November 1, 2011

Summary/Description : When she was seven years old, Catherine Moore moved with her family to a Brooklyn tenement near her grandparents' home. It was a four-room cold water flat, but she tells the story of some neighbors who had even fewer amenities in their apartment than hers did.

Subject : Tenement houses

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org

Coverage : Locations discussed: Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:03:04

Identifier : aql:22281 scc-cm-clip-000002

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Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org


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