Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Through an oral history interview, William Bourne talks about his family and growing up, and working on his family's tobacco farm in Calvert County, Maryland. Bourne describes his experience as an oyster shucker for 64 years at the Warren Denton Seafood House (Calvert County, Maryland). He explains the drop in the oyster population and the changes over the years in the oyster shucking industry, including the changing demographics of the industry's workers.
- Interview. Part of Behind the Apron oral history project. Dated 19970415.
- Date
- April 15, 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 William Bourne, Behind the Apron oral history project, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-007.28, Item ACMA AV005265
William Bourne Interview: Behind the Apron