Yesterday Kana and I went to Harriet Burns’ apartment to film an oral history interview. She was extremely kind but had not gone through the photographs she planned to show us. We thus spent most of our time with her going through boxes and photo albums.
We found a pair of binoculars that her father had donated to the navy during WWI. She also had many photographs from Sarasota during the era. Most excitingly, we found scans of a diary kept by a young woman who lived in Sarasota from 1915-1919.
Kana and I filmed an interview with Harriet, but most of what she told us was about the 1920s, not the 1910s. We are planning on returning with a portable scanner to make scans of photographs and the diary. At that meaning we will try filming Harriet again explaining specific, relevant materials.