Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Through an oral history interview, Conroy Franklin Butler talks about his experience working as an oyster shucker at the Warren Denton Seafood House (Calvert County, Maryland) for 27 years. In addition to describing his enjoyment for the job, Butler speaks of some of the changes in the oyster shucking industry.
- Interview. Part of Behind the Apron oral history project. Dated 19970429 (transcribed from transcripts).
- Date
- April 29, 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 Conroy Butler, Behind the Apron oral history project, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-007.28, Item ACMA AV005264
