Oral history interview with Lewis L. Hersom, 1978 July 6.

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Oral history interview with Lewis L. Hersom, 1978 July 6.

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Lewis Hersom discusses his experiences as a draftee during World War I; his family's acquisition of the farm through homesteading; his father's income earned from the sale of muskrat hides; the destruction of the farm house by the Pomeroy tornado of 1893; railroads; draining swamp lands with tiled ditches dug by laborers from Fonda, Iowa; his wife, parents, son and grandson; surviving during the Depression; land ownership; and various economic issues such as mortgages, yields, land values, etc.

Transcript: 25 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

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...

Geiger, Veronica,

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Hersom, Lewis Linton, b. 1889,

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Hersom family.

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Conard, Rebecca

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