Oral history interview with Marshall H. Bailey , 1978 July 7.

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Oral history interview with Marshall H. Bailey , 1978 July 7.

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Marshall Bailey of Royal, Iowa talks about his family history dating back to 1635 when the family immigrated to Vermont from England; his father's construction and carpentry jobs; his father's homesickness for Vermont; pioneer days in Iowa; homesteading; farming; the Great Depression; cabinet making in Peterson, Iowa; truck driving during World War I; attending a country school in Clay Township (Clay County); legislation related to veterans and farming; inheritance taxes; enlistment and military life in France during World War I; meeting his wife at a party; and land subdivision.

Transcript: 10 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

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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...

Bailey, Marshall H., b. 1893,

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Conrath, Elaine,

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Conard, Rebecca

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