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From bagpipes to foghorns: an orphan's adventures between two worlds / Josephine Taft Banis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8103
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banis, Josephine Taft, 1904- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banis, Josephine (Taft), 1904-.
- Medomak (Me.).
- Sisters.
- Scotland.
- Maine.
- Women household employees.
- Orphans.
- Local Subjects:
- Banis, Josephine (Taft), 1904-.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vantage Press, [1953]
- Summary:
- The author's life growing up in an orphanage in Scotland; becoming a maid at age 14; emigrating to North America; working as a private cook for wealthy families in Boston, New York, and Florida; her estranged sailor father; marriage; and moving to and keeping a boarding house in Medomak, Maine.
- Contents:
- The orphanage
- Running into difficulties
- Bigger and better jobs
- Outstanding events
- Spare the rod and spoil the child
- I graduate in cap and apron
- Escape
- My year in the highlands
- The lowlands and the highlands once more
- Babs arrives from America
- America
- Home at last, and Boston
- Quincy and Boston
- New Hampshire
- "Our ain wee hoose"
- New York and North Carolina
- Romance and Maine
- Snug Harbor.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8103: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription on front free endleaf recto: Meacham [...] August 1953. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 3462954
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