Polson, Lois_OH10_119

Title Polson, Lois_OH10_119
Creator Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program
Contributors Polson, Lois, Interviewee; Hansen, Marvin, Interviewer; Sadler, Richard, Professor; Gallagher, Stacie, Technician
Description The Weber State College/University Student Projects have been created by students working with several different professors on the Weber State campus. The topics are varied and based on the student's interest or task for a specific assignment. These oral history assignments were created to help Weber State students learn the value and importance of recording public history and to benefit the expansion of the Weber State oral history collections.
Biographical/Historical Note The following is an oral history interview with Lois Polson. The interview wasconducted on August 4, 1972, by Marvin Hansen, at 913 6th Street, Ogden, Utah. Polsondiscusses growing up in Farr West and, particularly, her nursing career during World WarII at the Thomas Dee Memorial Hospital. She talks about how the war affected her and thetown she lived in. She also discusses things that changed during the war.
Subject World War II, 1939-1945; Nursing; Prisoners of war; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Japanese Americans
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 1972
Date Digital 2015
Temporal Coverage 1943-1972
Medium Oral History
Spatial Coverage Weber County (Utah); Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
Type Text
Conversion Specifications Original copy scanned using AABBYY Fine Reader 10 for optical character recognition. Digitally reformatted using Adobe Acrobat Xl Pro.
Language eng
Rights Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes, please credit University Archives, Stewart Library; Weber State University.
Source Polson, Lois_OH10_119; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s6ccf13f
Setname wsu_stu_oh
ID 111590
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6ccf13f