• Title
  Item 2: Eileen Sewell oral history interview by Julie Petersen
• Call number
  MLOH 764/2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1981
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9651019
• Physical Description
  1 audiotape reel (9 min. 43 sec.) - 13 cm, 6 mm tape
  
• Scope and Content
  MLOH 764/2 (10 min.):
  Eileen Sewell, who was born in 1890, talks about her family life as one of seven children; her father's work as a blacksmith at Sutton Forest and her mother's arrival from Ireland and her work as a maid; living in her present house in Woollahra from birth and her memories of the neighbourhood including the water pump in Ocean Street, the lamplighters in Queen Street and Governor Rawson riding in his carriage on race days; working as a maid for Judge Owen at Dilba Hall in Wellington Street and for Mr Robinson.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Reproduction Restricted:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.
• General note
  
  MLOH 764/2: Recorded in Woollahra in 1981
  MLOH 764/2 : Tape speed from contents list.
  Some of this material has been provided to the library with limited documentation. If you can provide, or require, more information about this material, please enquire through the Library’s Ask A Librarian service.
• Contributing Creator
  
  Interviewer: Petersen, Julie
  Interviewee: Sewell, Eileen
• Conservation note
  
  MLOH 764/2: Tape shows evidence of sticky shed.
• Subject
  Sewell, Eileen, 1890---Interviews.
  Women household employees--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21161256

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