Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Through an oral history interview, Christine Gray speaks of her experience working as a clam shucker at the Warren Denton Seafood House (Calvert County, Maryland). In addition to describing her enjoyment for the job, Gray talks about some of the fastest shuckers and changes in the clam shucking industry, including the changing demographics of the employees working at Warren Denton Seafood House.
- Interview. Part of Behind the Apron oral history project. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1997
- Extent
- 1 sound recording (audio cassette)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Oral histories (document genres)
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Employment
- African Americans -- Maryland
- Oyster industry
- Clam industry
- Place
- Maryland
- United States
- Culture
- African American
- Citation
- Behind the Apron Interview with Christine Gray, Behind the Apron oral history project, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-007.28, Item ACMA AV005263
Christine Gray Interview: Behind the Apron