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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>O.B687*Archon Finding Aid Title O.B687*UIS Archives/Special CollectionsArchives/Special Collections LIB 144One University Plaza, MS BRK 140Springfield, IL 62703-5407twood1@uis.eduURL: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2018-06-06 16:52:56 -0400.undother_unmapped
  
    
      English
    
    
      UIS Archives/Special Collections
    
    Bowsher, Charles b. 1910: Interview
    
      Bowsher, Charles
    
    
      Flood, Nancy
    
    O.B687*
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      13.00 items
    
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    Scope and Contents
Bowsher discusses early 20th century life in Springfield, Illinois: his family, schools and jobs, neighborhoods, movie theaters, hospital and medical experiences, and life as a polio victim. He also discusses life in Chicago: home life, radio, schools, gangsters, prohibition, and the Depression. Also discusses Springfield coal mines, WWII, aging, and treatment of the elderly in nursing homes. 12 tapes, 700 mins. 
Interview by Nancy Flood, 1975 
OPEN 
See collateral file