Shore, Gussie - 1986 - Tape 1, Side 1
Metadata Details
- Title
- Shore, Gussie - 1986 - Tape 1, Side 1
- Description
- [T1S1] her birth on lower East Side of New York in 1900; early life in New York; father's treatment for tuberculosis; family moves to Des Moines, Iowa; her marriage to Max Shore at age seventeen; they settle in the Strip District of Pittsburgh; their employment in brother-in- law's store on 43rd Street; formation of a congregation in the Strip District; anti-Semitism in the Strip District; discussion of the end of WWI; giving food from their store to Father Cox for veterans who had no home; story of Cox's army that marched on Washington for aid; her employment at age twelve making combs.
- Contributor
- University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Identifier
- pitt:ais196440.427_t1s1
- Relation
- ais196440.427