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Forbes, Lydia b. 1922: Memoir

 Collection — Container: Folders
Identifier: O-F744

Scope and Contents

Mrs. Forbes discusses her life in a Quaker family and recalls work at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois and its development from 1949 to 1986. She also discusses WWII as the wife of a conscientious objector, her work during the war at a mental hospital, living in England, and her recollections of Ecuador. Also mentions Adlai Stevenson, the Depression, and Japanese internment camps.

104 pp. Interview by Chester Rhodes, 1986 OPEN See collateral file

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Extent

2.00 items

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Memoir in Illinois Digital Archives.

http://www.idaillinois.org/u?/uis,2049

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