Title:
Stories of a second-generation ironworker from Iowa : oral history transcript / 1992
Stories of a second generation ironworker from Iowa
On the waterfront : an oral history of Richmond, California
Creator/Contributor:
Mays, Ira Dale, 1918-, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Dunning, Judith, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Abstract:
Mays discusses his family background, Waterloo, Iowa; Free Methodist Church; move to Richmond, WWII; Kaiser Shipyards: schedule,
supervision, pranks, women welders; ironworkers: health risks, women and minorities in trade, work on Richmond- San Rafael
Bridge; postwar Richmond.
Date:
1992 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Iron and steel workers -- California -- Interviews
Iron and steel workers
Richmond (Calif.) -- History
California
California -- Richmond
Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.)
Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.)
United States -- California -- Berkeley
Note:
Ira Dale Mays ; an interview conducted by Judith K. Dunning in 1985.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. (Classified as: Phonotape 2637 C:1-4).
Also available online.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed
to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
Type:
History.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
96 p. : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Classification:
979.423
Copyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed
to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720.