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Isabel Atwater - On her family's laundry business (clip)

Interviewed by George Barrett and Hudson Vaughan on November 5, 2014
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Isabel Atwater - On her family's laundry business (clip)

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Oral history interview of Atwater, Isabel conducted by Barrett, George on November 5, 2014 at Home of Isabel Atwater, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Isabel Atwater - On her family's laundry business (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed April 1, 2025, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/isabel-atwater-on-her-familys-laundry-business.

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