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Mrs. Hattie Adolphus and Mrs. Ruth T. Bruner interviews
Mrs. Hattie Adolphus and Mrs. Ruth Bruner discuss the effect the Depression had on their family life. Includes views on President Franklin Roosevelt and comments on food and clothing purchases, entertainment, hobos, gypsies, and gangsters.

Recorded May 21, 1976 in Birmingham as part of the University of Alabama in Birmingham Oral History Research Project.
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