Meents, Jerry; Meents, Hanna OH16_010

Title Meents, Jerry; Meents, Hanna OH16_010
Creator Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program
Contributors Meents, Jerry, Interviewee; Meents, Hanna, Interviewee; Rands, Lorrie, Interviewer; Whitney, Brian, Interviewer
Collection Name Immigrants at the Crossroads-Ogden City Oral Histories
Description Immigrants at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories, photographs and artifacts related to the immigrant populations that helped shape the cultural and economic climate of Ogden. This project will expand the contributions made by Ogden's immigrant populations: the Dutch, Italian and Greek immigrants who came to work on the railroad and the Japanese who arrived after World War II from the West Coast and from internment camps.
Abstract The following includes the transcript and a video clip from an oral history interview with Jerry Meents and Hanna Meents.
Image Captions Jerry Meents and Hanna Meents
Subject Immigration; Dutch
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 2015
Date Digital 2017
Temporal Coverage 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015
Item Size 39p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 video disc: digital; 4 3/4 in.
Medium Oral History
Spatial Coverage Ogden (Utah)
Type Text; Image/MovingImage
Conversion Specifications Filmed using a Sony HDR-CX430V digital video camera. Sound was recorded with a Sony ECM-AW3(T) bluetooth microphone. Transcribed using WAVpedal 5 Copyrighted by The Programmers' Consortium Inc. 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 Meents, Jerry; Meents, Hanna OH16_010; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives
Format application/pdf; video/mp4
ARK ark:/87278/s6twjq9w
Setname wsu_webda_oh
ID 104210
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6twjq9w

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Title Meents, Jerry; Meents, Hanna OH16_010
Creator Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program
Contributors Meents, Jerry, Interviewee; Meents, Hanna, Interviewee; Rands, Lorrie, Interviewer; Whitney, Brian, Interviewer
Description Immigrants at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories, photographs and artifacts related to the immigrant populations that helped shape the cultural and economic climate of Ogden. This project will expand the contributions made by Ogden's immigrant populations: the Dutch, Italian and Greek immigrants who came to work on the railroad and the Japanese who arrived after World War II from the West Coast and from internment camps.
Image Captions Jerry Meents and Hanna Meents
Biographical/Historical Note This is an oral history interview with Jerry and Hanna Meents, conducted by Lorrie Rands and Brian Whitney on February 25, 2015. Jerry and Hanna Meents grew up in Amsterdam during WWII, married in 1951, and immigrated to the United States in 1957. They discuss their Dutch and Jewish heritage, and their immigration to Utah.
Subject Ogden (Utah); Weber County (Utah); Immigration; Dutch
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 2015
Date Digital 2017
Temporal Coverage 1930-2015
Item Size 39p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 video disc: digital; 4 3/4 in.
Medium Oral History
Spatial Coverage Ogden (Utah)
Type Text; Image/MovingImage
Conversion Specifications Filmed using a Sony HDR-CX430V digital video camera. Sound was recorded with a Sony ECM-AW3(T) bluetooth microphone. Transcribed using WAVpedal 5 Copyrighted by The Programmers' Consortium Inc. 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 Meents, Jerry; Meents, Hanna OH16_010; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
Setname wsu_webda_oh
ID 104401
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6twjq9w/104401