Interview: Alvin Sylva
Title: Alvin Sylva, early dairy farmer: [sound recording] : tape recorded interview by Neil Mill:/ Alvin Silva.
Interviewee: Sylva, Alvin
Recording Location: Sonora, CA
Date Recorded: January 23, 1976
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?173
Call Number: F868 .T915 S985 1976
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Year Recorded: 1976
Physical Description: 1 online resource (2 audio files (83 min., 46 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes:
Contents: Side 1: Family origins -- Grandparents -- Transporting fruit to Bodie -- How Dead Man's Creek got it's name -- Portugese colony at Shaws Flat -- Father drove stage -- Dairy -- House to house delivery -- Sonora Elementary School -- Family worked farm -- Woodcutting -- Refrigeration changes dairy industry -- UC Berkeley -- Pasturization -- Burned out -- Nature of competition -- Spirit of self-sufficiency -- Transportation -- Expansion -- Side 2: Recollections of "old days" in Sonora -- Early education -- Work ethics -- Methods of getting to school -- First automobiles -- Early dress and customs -- Chinese in Sonora -- Indians -- Social life -- Work ethic -- Started school of agriculture at Sonora High.
Local Notes: Recorded Jan. 23, 1976.
Held By: COLUMBIA
Geographic Term: Sonora (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne County (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
