Interview: Carlo DeFerrari
Title: Tuolumne County Jail [sound recording] : a tape recorded interview by Carlo De Ferrari and Punny Dambacher /cColumbia College
Interviewee: DeFerrari, Carlo
Recording Location: Sonora, CA
Date Recorded:
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?47
Call Number: F868 .T915 D311
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Performer: Interview recorded by Carlo De Ferrari.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (2 audio files (42 min., 48 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes: Contents outline (typescript) accompanies recording.
Contents: Side A Part 1: (abrupt beginning; no introduction) Earliest entries in jail log (1857) ; Chain gangs ; Reading from jail log (escapes, hangings) ; Cost of feeding prisoners in early days ; Account of Chinese prisoner's suicide ; Records of hangings in Tuolumne County ; Accounts of suicides in jail ; Accounts of escapes from jail -- Side B Part 2: Punny Dambacher (Son of Jailor; born 1923 in jail; lived at jail 1923-1942) ; Tuol. Co. Jail during Depression, Prohibition ; Kangaroo court ; Cost of maintaining prisoners; Jail food (ends with no conclusion).
Local Notes: Recording date unknown.
Held By: COLUMBIA
Geographic Term: Sonora (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Columbia Historic State Park (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
