Oral History of Work in Australia

Archie Kite, Quorn S.A.

INTERVIEW: Archie Kite -1969

 

PLACE: Quorn, South Australia

 

NOTES:

Archie, aged about 70, was the caretaker of the camping ground at Quorn. At the age of eight he was driving a donkey wagon out of Quorn, accompanying his father who drove another team. He has spent most of his life carting with camels and donkeys all over the Centre, up the Birdsville Track and to the copper mines in the northern Flinders Ranges. Like Spider Willard he employs a distinctive pronunciation of local place names and talks about social life, dances, loading camel teams, eye troubles and bush dentistry

 

Wendy Lowenstein 1972

 

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LOWENSTEIN FAMILY COLLECTION

 

NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA ORAL HISTORY

 

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA ORAL HISTORY

 

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    Martie Lowenstein, is the holder of the Lowenstein Family Collection, a complete set of over 1200 interviews recorded by Wendy Lowenstein, author and pioneer Australian oral labour historian specialising in Australian working life. Permission to use the interviews for research and education is obtained by contacting this website. The Lowenstein family holds all rights to this collection of interviews recorded between 1967 and 2002.

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