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Title
Part 15: Great Depression (Windows Media version)
Creator
Lewandowksi, Thomas, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Institution
Oakland Community College

Subject
Depressions -- 1929 -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Stock market crash -- 1929.

Subject
Hamtramck (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.

Item Number
EX01b015

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
Bernard (Barney) Sumner, owner of Barney's Clothes, weathered the effects of the Great Depression along with other merchants on Joseph Campau. Constable Edward Borucki and his wife, Lottie, their nephew, police officer Arthur Borucki recall the hardships of the Great Depression and having to exist on welfare. Mrs. Margaret McGuire Tenerowicz , wife of Congressman and Mayor Dr. Rudolph Tenerowicz, shares how Harry Bennett (Ford Motor Company) and Mr. Charlie Winegar (Chrysler Corporation) helped put some Hamtramckans to work.

Part 15: Great Depression (Windows Media version)

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