Ladoceour, Dorothy, undated

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Identifier: 1

Content Description

From the Collection:

This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell as part of their research in producing the film. Other records include the four drafts of the manuscript, research notes, summaries of the letters, and miscellaneous material produced by Errol Lincoln Uys while writing the companion book.

Dates

Creation: undated

Creator

From the Series: Uys, Michael (Person)
From the Series: Lovell, Lexy (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research. Access copies should be used instead of original cassette and VHS tapes.

Biographical / Historical

The writer marked themselves as a woman. The writer's travel began in the late 1930s at ages 17-18. The writer started out from Mississippi.

Full Extent

From the Collection: 14 Linear Feet : There is about 5,000 items in this collection including around 3,000 questionnaires, letters, phone interview notes, photographs, etc., seventy-two audiovisual materials, over 200 photographs from the Library of Congress/National Archives, and around 1,700 materials on the companion book.

Language of Materials

From the Series: English

Additional Description

Processing Information

Did not actually ride the rails herself, told story of her uncle, who became very sick on the first day of their trip, spent a few days, and all his money, in the hospital, and had to return home