Interview with Frank Jacobs
IntervieweeInterview with
Frank Jacobs
(American, born 1937)
Date2000 November 30
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration (side 1): 44 Minutes, 11 Seconds
Duration (side 2): 15 Minutes, 48 Seconds
Duration (total runtime): 1 Hour
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
Object number2013.26.14a-e
Description(a-d) Audio cassette tape of an interview with Frank Jacobs, who was interviewed by Fiona Vernal on November 30, 2000. (e) Black and white portrait photograph of Frank Jacobs.
Topics discussed include Jacob's grandparents migrating from St. Kitts to New York; hard times and menial jobs in early 20th century New York; his family and childhood; buying a house and becoming involved in real estate; the West Indian Social Club; the West Indian Foundation; generational differences; West Indian generations; and the social and political activities of Frank Jacobs, Sr.
2013.26.14a-d consists of two sides, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.14e: photograph
Topics discussed include Jacob's grandparents migrating from St. Kitts to New York; hard times and menial jobs in early 20th century New York; his family and childhood; buying a house and becoming involved in real estate; the West Indian Social Club; the West Indian Foundation; generational differences; West Indian generations; and the social and political activities of Frank Jacobs, Sr.
2013.26.14a-d consists of two sides, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.14e: photograph
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19641556
NotesSubject Note: In 1999, the West Indian Social Club of Hartford and the West Indian Foundation asked the Connecticut Historical Society to join them in documenting the lives of the West Indian immigrants who first came to the Hartford area in the 1940s to work on local tobacco farms.What began as a project designed to record the experiences of these early pioneers - mostly men from Jamaica - subsequently grew to include audio and videotaped interviews of men and women, elders and young people, longtime residents and more recent arrivals to the Greater Hartford area, both from Jamaica and the other English-speaking, independent countries in the Caribbean.
The exhibition explored a common thread that seems to link people’s individual stories: the challenge of putting down roots in a new place while maintaining ties with the people, history, and cultural heritage of their homelands in the West Indies.
The exhibition, "Finding a Place, Maintaining Ties: Greater Hartford’s West Indians," was on view at the Connecticut Historical Society from July 2, 2002 – August 31, 2003.
Status
Not on view
Dr. Cyrus Pendleton
