Interview with Winifred Carter
IntervieweeInterview with
Winifred Carter
(Bahamian, 1928 - 2019)
Date2001 February 2
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration: 46 Minutes, 57 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
Object number2013.26.19a-d
Description(a-c) Audio cassette tape of an interview with Winifred Carter, who was interviewed by Fiona Vernal on February 2, 2001. (d) Black and white portrait photograph of Winifred Carter.
Topics discussed include Carter's childhood in the Bahamas, her mother's death and her father remarrying; Nassau, Bahamas in the 1940s; coming to the United States; her thoughts on the U.S.; networking with local Blacks; socializing with West Indians in the 1960s; leaving her domestic work job to become a nurse's aid at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford in 1950; marriage; finding a job that doesn't require her to live-in; meeting her husband in church; joining the Women's Auxiliary of the West Indian Social Club in 1972; activities and programs at the West Indian Social Club; and generational differences.
2013.26.19a-c consists of one side, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.19d: photograph
Topics discussed include Carter's childhood in the Bahamas, her mother's death and her father remarrying; Nassau, Bahamas in the 1940s; coming to the United States; her thoughts on the U.S.; networking with local Blacks; socializing with West Indians in the 1960s; leaving her domestic work job to become a nurse's aid at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford in 1950; marriage; finding a job that doesn't require her to live-in; meeting her husband in church; joining the Women's Auxiliary of the West Indian Social Club in 1972; activities and programs at the West Indian Social Club; and generational differences.
2013.26.19a-c consists of one side, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.19d: photograph
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19641560
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
