Wilhemina Leite Machado Oral History Interview

Wilhemina Leite Machado Oral History Interview

1999-02-17

Oral History Interview with Wilhemina Leite Machado, February 17, 1999

Biographical Note:
Wilhemina's parents both immigrated to the United States from the island of Graciosa in the Azores. They got married shortly after arriving and Wilhemina was born on May 30, 1914. Her sister was named Mary Foley. Their parents worked in Boott Mills in Lowell until their father found work in Machester, N.H., where they lived for many years.

Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; tells how Wilhemina's parents immigrated to U.S.; their strict portuguese customs; work in the mills; how Wilhemina parented her children differently; relationship between ethnic groups.

UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History

Machado, Wilhemina Leite

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Her sister, Mary Leite Foley, was also interviewed for this project. You can view her interview here.

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