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Title
Part 03: Early Hamtramck (Windows Media version)
Creator
Lewandowksi, Thomas, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Institution
Oakland Community College

Subject
Hamtramck (Mich.) -- Immigration and emigration -- Social aspects.

Subject
Immigrants -- Cultural assimiliation -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Item Number
EX01b003

Relation
Extracts from oral histories of Hamtramck, MI in the Albert J. Zak Memorial Library (Hamtramck), Detroit Public Library (Burton Collection), Hamtramck Historical Collection, Library of Michigan, Macomb County Library, Oakland Community College Libraries.

Type
sound, image

Format
mpeg2

Description
Mrs. Czeslawa Kopacki recalls the city's rapid development of homes. Mrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department nurse from 1918 to 1965 and resident since 1903 also describes the early growth of the city. Mrs. Butler shares that she lunched with President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House.

Part 03: Early Hamtramck (Windows Media version)

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