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Bilsland, Amy, b. 1895,. Oral history interview with Amy Bilsland, 1978 July 31.

Title: Oral history interview with Amy Bilsland, 1978 July 31.

Amy Bilsland discusses her family history including the story of her adoption; the acquisition and inheritance of the century farm; inheritance taxes; surviving during the Depression; meeting her husband and their wedding; threshing; children's games, dances, chautauquas, and music; raising chickens; farm chores; foods that the family ate; candy making; changes to daily life when electricity became available; and toys and dolls.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 18 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232337386 View

Brewster, Mabel M., b. 1889,. Oral history interview with Mabel Brewster, 1978 August 9.

Title: Oral history interview with Mabel Brewster, 1978 August 9.

Mabel Brewster discusses her parents' farm in Minnesota and how she came to live on an Iowa farm with her brother's family; her experiences teaching in rural O'Brien County schools; her early years of marriage when she learned to cook; the years she and her husband lived in Fresno, California; the impact of the Depression; farm chores; and family history and the history of the farm and farmhouse.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 11 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248050118 View

Langer, Alma Pauline, b. 1893,. Oral history interview with Alma Pauline Langer , 1978 July 24.

Title: Oral history interview with Alma Pauline Langer , 1978 July 24.

Alma Langer discusses the acquisition of the farm; livestock and crops; farm machinery including replacing horse power with tractors; threshing rings and cooking for the threshers; courtship and shivaree; immigration of the family to Iowa from Germany; dance parties and music; and the effects of World War I on community families. Also includes a genealogical chart.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 9 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225627044 View

Thompson, Carney, b. 1890,. Oral history interview with Carney and Mary Thompson, 1978 August 9.

Title: Oral history interview with Carney and Mary Thompson, 1978 August 9.

The Thompsons discuss family history; the Mapleside School near Primghar, Iowa and Mary's experiences teaching there; the Mapleside and other Friends meetings; Carney's family's immigration to Paullina, Iowa from Norway; farm chores; renting and buying farmland; the cost of fertilizer and pesticides; nutrition research conducted during World War II; conscientious objectors; and the deaths due to illness of two of their adult children.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 16 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248050128 View