UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1976-2018]

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Title

Date

1976-2018

Description

These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1976-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.

Creator

Ali, Mehmed

Denatale, Doug

Fertig, Barbara

Fitzsimons, Gray

Holden, Maria

Miller, Marc

Norkunas, Martha

Page, Paul

Perkins, Carole MacDougal

Reis, John M.

Spandagos, Olga

Strobel, Christoph

Szewczyk, Kimberly

Taylor, David

Subject

Azorean Americans

Children of immigrants

Cultural assimilation

Mills and mill-work

Portuguese American women

Madeirans

World War, 1939-1945

Veterans

United States. Navy.

Factories

Education

Depressions--1929

Immigrants

Christmas

Immigrant families

Ethnic food

New Year

Balls (parties)

Community organization

Civic leaders

Baking

Bakeries

Bakery employees

Tradition (Theology)

Music

Ethnic neighborhoods

Boardinghouses

Folk dancing, Portuguese

Music teachers

Civil engineering

Urban renewal

Park facilities--Planning

Fasts and Feasts

Portuguese language

Instrumentation and orchestration (Band)

Engineering

Religious gatherings

Police

Portugal--Emigration and immigration

Immigrants--Cultural Assimilation--United States

Dance teachers

Female impersonators

Entertainers

Musicians

Suicide

Cleaning compounds

Tenement houses

Rug and carpet industry

Entrepreneurship

Irish Americans

Politics and government

City council members

Campaign management

Community development, Urban

Music--Portuguese influences

Catholic Church--Dioceses

Catholic Church--Societies, etc.

Priests

Code switching (Linguistics)

Soccer

Cooking

Composition (Music)

Portuguese teachers

Women in community organization

Labor unions

Ethnic groups

Fathers and sons

Bars (Drinking establishments)

Desegregation

Military bands

Track and field coaches

Language teachers

Brazilian Americans

Bullfights

Bullying in schools

Conflict of generations

Earthquakes

Evening and continuation schools

Volcanos

Meat industry and trade

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919

Christmas cooking

Community schools

Marriage

Radio programs

Sewing

Angola--History--Revolution, 1961-1975

Agriculture

Coverage

Lowell (Mass.)

Boston (Mass.)

Manchester (N.H.)

Graciosa (Azores)

Capelinhos Volcano (Azores)

Faial (Azores)

Lawrence (Mass.)

Terceira Island (Azores)

São Miguel (Azores)

Madeira (Madeira Islands)

Pico Island (Azores)

Lisbon (Portugal)

Azores

Hudson (Mass.)

Cambridge (Mass.)

Tyngsboro (Mass.)

Source

All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.

Publisher

UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History

Rights

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