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Interview with Dorothy R. Anderson [Sound Recording 02]
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- 1981-05-22 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:17:33
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Dorothy Rulifson Anderson, nee Dorothy Jean Rulifson, was born in Salem, Oregon, in 1917. She married in 1940, and divorced in 1944. During World War II, she worked as an electrician at Commercial Iron Works and at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation. In 1947, she began working for U.S. National Bank of Oregon until her retirement in 1982. She died in 1991.
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Tape 1, Side 2. This oral history interview with Dorothy R. Anderson was conducted by Amy Kesselman at the U.S. Bancorp Building in Portland, Oregon, on May 22, 1981. In this interview, Anderson discusses her early life in Salem, and talks about jobs she worked during the Depression. She describes how she came to work as an electrician at Commercial Iron Works and at Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland. She also talks about her marriage in 1940 and about her divorce in 1944. She shares her experiences as a woman worker in the shipyards, talks about her job duties, and describes the dangers of the job. She talks about the jobs she held after the end of the war, particularly her career with the U.S. National Bank of Oregon, shares her thoughts on the women's liberation movement, and discusses her plans for retirement.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland
- Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—Employees
- Henry J. Kaiser Company—Employees
- Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees
- Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees
- Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees
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- Kesselman, Amy Vita, 1944- (Contributor)