Mary Spaich Oral History Interview

culture, Granite City, immigration, Lincoln Place

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This oral history interview with Mary Spaich was part of oral histories conducted in the fall 2001 semester of History 447: Oral History.

In this interview, Mary Spaich discusses growing up in the Lincoln Place neighborhood of Granite City. She was born in Granite City in 1916 to Serbian parents who had immigrated from Yugoslavia in 1914. She describes her life in Lincoln Place and changes in the area since her childhood.

Fall 2001 Granite City Oral History Interviews

• culture
• Lincoln Place
• Granite City
• immigration

November 16, 2001

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 0:59:50

Koenig, Joshua

Spaich, Mary

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• Lincoln Place
• Granite City, Illinois
• 1910s - 2000s

• Spaich-Mary-O-001