Annette Simpkins Oral History Interview

American Steel, Army Depot, Granite City, immigration, Lincoln Place, Serbian Orthodox., theater, Yugoslavia

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

Annette Simpkins was born to Armenian immigrant parents and lived her whole life in Lincoln Place. In this interview, she describes her childhood, her parent's emigration from Armenia before the genocide, her father's job at American Steel, her employment at the Army Depot, the diversity of the Lincoln Place community, and her time at the local theater.

• Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections

Fall 2001 Granite City Oral History Interviews

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City

Simpkins, Annette

November 26, 2001

• Granite City
• Lincoln Place

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 00:59:50

Young, Tina

Simpkins Annette

Lincoln Place, Granite City, Illinois

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• Lincoln Place
• Granite City, Illinois

• Simpkins_Annette-O-001
• Original archive accession number: A02:43