James Henry Gibbs (Nantucket, Mass.): interview with Miles L. Hanley

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Title:
James Henry Gibbs (Nantucket, Mass.): interview with Miles L. Hanley
Description:
From a series of interviews conducted for the Linguistic Atlas of New England to document New England dialects. Speaker is James Henry Gibbs, LANE informant 124.1), recounting a whaling voyage out of New Bedford to the Atlantic and Indian oceans (1869-1872); Nantucket; telling the weather; farming; bells. Includes singing a whaling song. Audio is of uneven quality, but some very clear: transferred from original aluminum disks to tape.
Interviewee:
Gibbs, James Henry
Interviewer:
Hanley, Miles L.
Date:
[ca. July 1934]
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Genre:
Audiocassettes
Oral histories (document genres)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Linguistic Atlas of New England Records
Subjects:
Nantucket (Mass.)--History
Whalers (Persons)--Massachusetts--Interviews
Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford
English language--Dialects--Massachusetts
Linguistic Atlas of New England
Places:
Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Massachusetts > Nantucket (county) > Nantucket Island (island) > Nantucket
Extent:
1 audio recording ; 01:33:33
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums330-b040-i007
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Nantucket (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums330-b040-i007