Interview with Irene Landry Clause - OH 503

Interviewee

Irene Landry Clause
National Extension Homemakers Council
Voices of American Homemakers

Interviewer

Self

Files

Abstract

Irene Landry Clause (1915-2002) was born and raised in Labadieville, Louisiana and was a member of the homemaker’s club for 38 years. In this interview, she reflects on club life, homemaking, childbearing, and family management in the small towns and rural communities where she lived. She also discusses the important role that Extension Homemakers groups played in the lives of women during that time. This interviewer became ill, so Mrs. Clause conducted the interview self.

This interview was conducted as part of a three-year oral history project titled Voices of American Homemakers, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and organized by the National Extension Homemakers Council (NEHC). The project resulted in approximately 200 interviews with women across the United States, documenting their experiences in the early homemaker’s club movement.

Publication Date

1982

Unique Identifier

OH 503

Format

1 Cassette; MP3; WAV;

Length

00:15:01

Restrictions

Open under the rules and regulations of the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University

Series

National Extension Homemakers' Council

Disciplines

Oral History

Recommended Citation

Clause, Irene Landry; National Extension Homemakers Council; and Voices of American Homemakers, "Interview with Irene Landry Clause - OH 503" (1982). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 503.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/454