Wilma Craggs, wife of Joe Craggs, discusses 20th century life in Taylorville, Illinois: family and home life, her childhood, Depression, music, entertainment, and holidays, education in Taylorville schools; marriage, her husband's mine work, farm life, children, community organizations, and a trip to Europe.

5 tapes, 345 mins., 76 pp. Interview by Elsebeth J. Buckley, 1986 OPEN See collateral file

Hryhorysak, a coal miner's wife, discusses life in the early 20th century: home life, early education, garden and homemade foods, her husband's work in the coal mine, the mine wars, her job at a slaughterhouse and WWII ammunitions plant, and hardships raising her family.

4 tapes, 235 mins. Interview by Elsebeth J. Buckley, 1987 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file