Wilmette Public Library Local History Digital Collection

Anna Kathryn Witt (1895-1988) oral history

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Track 16, Transcript p. 19-20: Track 16, Transcript p. 19-20
Transcription: Track 16 M: Sale of raw milk? AW: Yeah. Then what was I saying? M: Were you going to tell about the cottage that was moved over? Anna Witt, cont. p.20 AW: After we moved back to the cottage in Wilmette, we bought a house on quite a big lot on Twelfth Street, which is now the Bell Telephone Company parking lot. And then we moved the little cottage which my parents had first built and lived in it on Forest Avenue in Wilmette. That little cottage was moved to our property on Twelfth Street. And it stayed there until we … my mother had passed away and we sold all of the property then - the whole lot with the two houses to the telephone company. And the little house was not … they tore down the big house in which we had lived and the cottage was sold to an individual- who moved it again to 1811 Wilmette Avenue, which is about a block from the Ridge. And that little house is still standing in very good repair and is occupied now by someone who moved it there, but I do not remember who they were.
Creators: Witt, Anna Kathryn, 1895-1988, Interviewee; Maselli, Briggs
, Interviewer
Media Type: Audio; Image; Text
Item Type: Audiocassettes
Description: Interview with Anna Witt by Briggs Maselli in Wilmette on December 9, 1975.

Abstract:

Sold milk from 800 block of Forest Avenue
Moved to Harms Road on Lake Avenue farm (Wilmette Golf Club grounds)
Returned to Wilmette — bottling plant — ice house eventually sold to Bowman Dairy Co.
Mother’s role — horse and buggy — run away!
School at Lake/Waukegan Road
German background of Mother
Central School experience
East-west Wilmette rivalries
Clothing of children around 1910
Violin lessons for a milk bill
Marriage — Plochman’s mustard
Tornado — Palm Sunday- 1920
“New library” - 1950
Miss Siniff — 1953 — Mrs. Witt and her work for Wilmette Library to present — 1981
Place of Publication: Wilmette, Illinois
Date of Original: December 9, 1975
Subject(s): Librarians
Milking
Oral histories
Wilmette Public Library
Wilmette (Ill.)--History
Personal Name(s): Witt, Anna Kathryn
Local identifier: R977.31 WI
Language of Item: English
Copyright Statement: Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Copyright Date: 1975
Copyright Holder: Wilmette Public Library
Copyright Holder Contact Information: 1242 Wilmette Ave.
Wilmette, IL 60091
U.S.A.
Recommended Citation: Witt, Anna Kathryn, and Briggs Maselli. Anna Witt. Wilmette, Ill: Wilmette Public Library District, 1975.
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