Title: Oral History Interviews with the Pudas Family
Inclusive Dates: 1974, 1977

Call Number: Tape 665A

Quantity: 5 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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Abstract:

Interviews conducted by Wisconsin Historical Society staff members with Ed Pudas, Esther Pudas, Arthur Suni, and Saima Pudas, Town of Oulu, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, concerning their Finnish backgrounds; Finnish family and social customs; Henry Getto; area logging, farming, and shipping; and politics.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-tape00665a

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Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M77-301, M77-302, M77-303, M77-304, M77-305

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Bauman, December 22, 1977.

No.   1	Ed Pudas narrating “The Spirit of the Forest” (2 takes) and “The Early Pioneers of Oulu,” two presentations he wrote for 4-H groups Physical Description: 30 minutes
No.   2	Interview with Ed Pudas conducted September 14, 1974, by R. Michael Berry of the Historical Society staff Physical Description: 58 minutes  Scope and Content Note: Pudas discusses his youth and his experiences logging in the Oulu area, his Great Lakes and ocean sailing days (circa 1917), and farming. He talks about clearing virgin timber off farm claims and about railroad tie production which extended into the 1930's.
No.   3 Part   1	Interview with Esther Pudas (Mrs. Ed Pudas) conducted September 13, 1974, by Richard Zeitlin of the Historical Society staff Physical Description: 22 minutes  Scope and Content Note: She talks about her family and youth on a farm, about meeting her husband and their marriage in New York, and about Swedish-Finnish relations in the Town of Oulu.
No.   3 Part   2	Interview with Arthur Suni, Oulu, conducted September 13, 1974, by Richard Zeitlin of the Historical Society staff Physical Description: 31 minutes  Scope and Content Note: Suni discusses his life generally, his Finnish heritage, clearing farmland, and distribution of work on the farm.
No.   4	Interview with Saima (pronounced Sima) Pudas, sister-in-law of Ed Pudas, conducted September 13, 1974, by R. Michael Berry of the Historical Society staff Physical Description: 58 minutes  Scope and Content Note: She describes her family history and immigration to the United States from Finland, social life in the Oulu area, her mother's role in the family in Finland and in the United States, the Lutheran Church and marriage customs in Oulu, her husband and courtship practices, a Communist Party hall in the area, and politics generally.
No.   5	Interview with Ed Pudas, April 1, 1977[?], conducted by Richard Zeitlin of the Historical Society staff, concerning Henry Getto