Compton, Joseph OH10_031

Title Compton, Joseph OH10_031
Creator Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program
Contributors Compton, Joseph, Interviewee; Jones, Betty, Interviewer; 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 Joseph Compton. The interviewwas conducted on April 29, 1971, by Betty Jones. Compton discusses his years workingfor the Southern Pacific Railroad driving a motor car and working on maintenance. Hedescribes various wrecks, a hotel on 25th Street, and life in Promontory.
Subject Railroad cars; 25th Street (Ogden, Utah)
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 1971
Date Digital 2015
Temporal Coverage 1892-1971
Medium Oral History
Spatial Coverage Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206
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 Compton, Joseph_OH10_031; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s68kfc7n
Setname wsu_stu_oh
ID 111686
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s68kfc7n
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