Oral history interview with Leonard and Iva Rensink, 1978 July 6.

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Oral history interview with Leonard and Iva Rensink, 1978 July 6.

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Leonard Rensink discusses how the farm was acquired, farm property values, farmers' cooperatives, dairy farming, tractors, threshing machines, Henry Field's hybrid corn, hardships during the Depression, Roosevelt's low cost farm loan program. Iva Rensink talks about local musicians, dances and parties.

Transcript: 7 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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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...

Mendelson, Michael

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Rensink, Iva, b. 1901,

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Rensink, Leonard, b. 1900,

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