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MF 124 John Kelly, Jr. Collection
Number of
Interviews: 5
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1971-1974
Time period covered: late nineteenth-early twentieth
centuries
Principal interviewers: John Kelley, Jr.
Finding Aides: transcripts
Access Restrictions: none
Description: A collection of five interviews conducted by
John Kelly, Jr., in 1971 and 1974, mostly dealing with Kelly's
family and with life and fishing in Long Harbor, Newfoundland; and
fishing in the area of Quincy, Massachusetts during the 1930s and
1940s. Also includes interviews with Kelly’s wife’s Swedish
grandmother, Anna Anderson, and her Swedish grandfather, Eric P.
Peterson, about emigrating from Sweden to Boston in the 1910s.
583 Kelly, John. Dec. 1970. Mass.: Quincy. 202 pp. Tape: 8
hrs. w/ trans. Series of interviews with his father, John Kelly,
Sr., about life in Newfoundland; fishing on trawlers, etc.;
illustrations and photos: P10l1 - P1013 / T324 - T327
661 Kelly, John. June 1971. Mass.: Quincy. 107 pp. Tape: 3
hrs. w/ trans. Interviews with Thomas Fulham, owner of the
Triton, a fishing boat, and Capt. John J. Whalen. a fishing vessel
skipper born in Newfoundland. T355
662 Kelly, John. June 1971. Mass.: Quincy. 140 pp. Tape: 4
hrs. w/ trans. Autobiography of Anna Anderson, donor’s wife’s
Swedish grandmother. T356 - T357
663 Kelly, John. Sept. 1971. Mass.: Boston. 59 pp. Tape: 2
hrs. w/ trans. Interviews with Eric P. Peterson, donor’s
wife’s paternal grandfather, who came to Boston from Sweden in 1911.
T358 - T359
858 Kelly, John Jr. Summer 1974. Newfoundland: Long Harbor;
Massachusetts: Quincy. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ brief cat. A series of
interviews with Peter Kelly and John Kelly, Sr., about
family history; emigration from Ireland to Newfoundland; life on
Newfoundland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century;
fishing off of Massachusetts in the 1930s and 1940s; fishing for
swordfish; whaling; and marketing of fish during the Great
Depression. T 809 - T 814
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