Oral history interview with Elizabeth Brinker, 1978 July 7.

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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Brinker, 1978 July 7.

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Elizabeth Brinker discusses the immigration of her grandparents and great grandmother to Clinton, Iowa from Germany; family history including how her parents met and her sons' service in Germany during World War II; the beginnings of the farm on land purchased from the railroads in 1872; the arrival of electricity on the farm in the 1930s; farm chores; threshing; barn dances; relations with neighbors; attending school in a one-room schoolhouse; her wedding; and the transfer of the farm property between generations.

Transcript: 5 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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Brinker family.

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Brinker, Elizabeth, b. 1907,

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