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Film, Video Paulette Callahan interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, 2023-11-07

Video recording of interview with Paulette Callahan conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein.

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Title

  • Paulette Callahan interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, 2023-11-07

Summary

  • Paulette Callahan has been bartending in New Orleans for 25 years and has worked at The Chart Room in the French Quarter for the last ten years. She also owns a business selling snowballs via pop-ups, following the closing of a brick-and-mortar store. She talks about her experiences before, during, and after the shutdowns at a bar that is popular with locals and other service workers, as well as the psychological toll of that time. She also talks about being a single mother of a toddler and having a mother with stage 4 cancer during the early period of COVID-19.

Names

  • Callahan, Paulette, interviewee
  • Micaroni, Justin, photographer
  • Chatelain, Elise M., interviewer
  • Bernstein, Sara Tatyana, interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2023-11-07.

Headings

  • -  Callahan, Paulette--Interviews
  • -  Tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans
  • -  Hospitality industry--Employees--Louisiana--Interviews
  • -  Anger in the workplace
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Educational aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Psychological aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects
  • -  Employees--Substance abuse
  • -  Entrepreneurship
  • -  Harassment
  • -  Job stress
  • -  Night work
  • -  Working mothers

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2020-2030
  • Video recordings
  • Personal narratives
  • Oral histories
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Recorded at the Lower Garden District field office, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 7, 2023.
  • -  Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project (AFC 2023/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Medium

  • 1 video file (51:05, MOV) : sound, color, digital
  • 3 photographs : digital, TIF
  • 1 document file (PDF) : digital

Source Collection

  • Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project AFC 2023/016

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024655228

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  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

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  • pdf
  • video

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Credit line

It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago citation style:

Callahan, Paulette, Interviewee, Elise M Chatelain, and Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Micaroni, Justin, photographer. Paulette Callahan interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, -11-07. -11-07, 2023. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655228/.

APA citation style:

Callahan, P., Chatelain, E. M. & Bernstein, S. T., Micaroni, J., photographer. (2023) Paulette Callahan interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, -11-07. -11-07. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655228/.

MLA citation style:

Callahan, Paulette, Interviewee, Elise M Chatelain, and Sara Tatyana Bernstein, photographer by Micaroni, Justin. Paulette Callahan interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, -11-07. -11-07, 2023. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655228/>.