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Annalou Christensen, Clip 11: Queens College was a reform school

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Annalou Christensen
Date: Time Period: 1920 - 2010; 2010-06-29; Interview recorded: June 29 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:22
Creator: Annalou Christensen interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20568 christensen_annalou_clip11

Description: Annalou Christensen describes how Queens College used to be a boy's reform school. At Christensen's grammar school boys would scare the girls by telling them that they were going to have a tough teacher from the reform school in the next grade.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20659

Creator : Annalou Christensen interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1920 - 2010; 2010-06-29; Interview recorded: June 29 2010

Summary/Description : Annalou Christensen describes how Queens College used to be a boy's reform school. At Christensen's grammar school boys would scare the girls by telling them that they were going to have a tough teacher from the reform school in the next grade.

Subject : Reformatories; Universities and colleges; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

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

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 0:01:22

Identifier : aql:20568 christensen_annalou_clip11

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Reformatories; Universities and colleges; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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