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Yntema, Jean Busey (1898-2002): Interview and Memoir

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-Y69

Scope and Contents

Yntema, teacher, discusses early 20th century life in Champaign County, Illinois: upper-class family and home life, childhood, family vacations, women's suffrage, the towns of Urbana and Champaign, Depression, and banking business of the Busey family. She also talks about teaching in Crossnore, South Carolina, trips to Europe, living in Waukegan, Illinois, her husband's family, and her impressions of African Americans. She also briefly mentions the University of Illinois at Urbana, an American Indian reservation, and a Mississippi plantation. Tapes associated with the memoir are blank.

6 tapes, 325 mins., 79 pp. Interview by Colleen R. Ogg, 1984 OPEN See collateral file

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Extent

7.00 items

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Interview and Memoir in Illinois Digital Archives.

http://www.idaillinois.org/u?/uis,4625

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