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Elizabeth Guy
No full textIn 1945 Elizabeth arrived in Milingimbi to help her sister who was expecting her third baby, she was only staying for six months with no electricity and fridge until they purchased a kerosene fridge from the RAAF who were leaving, she was not impressed. She returned to the Territory again to live at Elcho Island with her husband Harold Guy an engineer lay Methodist missionary who she met in Millingimbi, they had three children, two daughters and one son. With her previous training in mothercraft nursing and pre-school teaching it proved invaluable in helping her husband. Elizabeth would start the day taking a bucket of part goat and part condensed milk to the dispensary to ration it out into pannikins held by children. Then she would inspect any very sick patients and diagnose the best to her knowledge with no equipment and give what treatment she could. The main treatment was for yaws a contagious tropical skin-disease, bites, abscess, ulcers and giving injections for yaws. She had a Goulburn Island Aboriginal woman who helped with simple treatments.
Elizabeth supervised correspondence lessons for the older children on the Island and would examine and price the mats and blankets the women made to sell, organise the wireless schedule with Darwin station V.I.D. and pass on messages from Yirrkala, who had difficulty getting through. It was Elizabeth's duty to check up on the number of children on the Station with the child endowment roll there was about 150 children and do the washing at the Dispensary. She held sewing class for the girls and helped her husband in the store. Elizabeth played the manual organ at Sunday service and taught lessons at Sunday school. She wrote a book titled 'Only a wife! Arnhem Land 1945-1952", which was about the years when she lived in Arnhem Land and travelled by mission lugger and around the Northern Territory coastline it was published in 1993.NurseAutho
Interview with Elizabeth Janeway, author
No full textAuthor of The Walsh Girls, Man's World, and Woman's Place, Elizabeth Janeway is interviewed by Milwaukee TV and radio moderator Winifred Ryhn and Claudine Shannon, assistant professor of Community Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. She explores how societal attitudes are shaped and how they have determined the traditional roles of men and women.GrayscaleSoun
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1865
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1914
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1889
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1905
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1875
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1890
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1887
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
Diary of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1906
No full textRedex Film ProductsElizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (formerly Elizabeth Waties Allston) was born in 1845 on Pawley's Island, South Carolina to Robert F.W. Allston and Adele Petigru. The family home, a rice plantation of 630 slaves named Chicora Wood, was located on the Pee Dee River near Georgetown. Elizabeth married John Julius Pringle in 1870. Under the pen name Patience Pennington, she is the author of ""A Woman Rice Planter"" and ""Chronicles of Chicora Wood."" She died at her family home December 5, 1921. Her diaries include descriptions of trips to northeastern United States including New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. She also writes about day-to-day activities on the plantation and keeps ledgers of annual expenditures
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