Oral history interview with Frank O. Schroeder, 1978 July 5.

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Oral history interview with Frank O. Schroeder, 1978 July 5.

Frank Schroeder discusses the purchase and inheritance of the farm property; his service during WWI; rural schools; the Depression; family members; bootlegging; crops; and farm property values.

Transcript: 8 p.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette

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SNAC Resource ID: 6913291

Iowa State Historical Society

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Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

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"Folklife in Rural Iowa" was an oral history project conducted in the summer of 1978 and funded by Earthwatch, a national organization encouraging public participation in field research. Interviewers worked in 2 teams under the direction of field director Rebecca Conard and assistant field director Michael Mendelson. Peter Harstad, director of the State Historical Society of Iowa, served as the project's principal investigator. From the description of Oral history interviews of the E...

Schroeder, Frank O., b. 1892,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Wallace, Mary Jo,

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