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California Explores the Ocean: San Diego Historical Society - Oral Histories
URL: http://ceo.ucsd.edu/photographs/sdhs/oral/

Description:
A searchable collection of over 50 transcribed interviews with "fishermen, cannery workers, fishing boat owners and captains, fishmongers, and others involved in commercial fishing, sport fishing, and boat building. Many belonged to immigrant Italian and Portuguese families that settled in San Diego from around 1910 to 1930." More than half of the interviews feature audio. A collaboration of the San Diego Historical Society and the University of California, San Diego.

Publisher:
University of California, San Diego

Dublin Core Material Type:
Collection, Text, Dataset, Sound

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Fisheries -- California -- History
Oral history
San Diego (Calif.) -- History

LII Database Information:
Record 2596 created by Tom McGibney on 12/07/2002
Last modification on 08/04/2003
Published: 12/07/2002  
California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2596