Borden, Jesse James (b. 1916), 1993

Item

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includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell as part of their research in producing the film.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: 1993

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 white man with Irish-English ethnicity. The writer's travel began in 1928 at age 12 and ended in 1934 at age 18. The writer started out from Cardova, Alabama.

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.