Oral history interview with Floyd and Delores Grauer, 1978 July 11.

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Oral history interview with Floyd and Delores Grauer, 1978 July 11.

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Floyd and Delores Grauer discuss the immigration of Floyd's great-grandfather, John Dorr, from Germany to Cherokee County, Iowa; the acquisition and inheritance of the farm; a grasshopper plague in the 19th century; combatting prairie fires; the transition from horse-drawn equipment to tractors; growing grain and raising feeder cattle and hogs; contour farming, crop rotation and the use of insecticides; livestock feed additives; crop and livestock diseases; family artifacts; building the farmhouse; the Lutheran parochial schools; etc. The collection also includes a photocopy of the publication: Family of John Dorr Sr. and John Dorr Jr. / compiled by Arthur J. Dorr (1977) and a newspaper article about Floyd Grauer's century farm published in the Cherokee Daily Times on March 16, 1976.

Transcript: 23 leavesDorr family history: 8 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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...

Dorr, Arthur.

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Grauer, Floyd Lecland, b. 1925,

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Conard, Rebecca

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Wallace, Mary Jo,

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Grauer family.

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Dorr family.

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Grauer, Delores Kielhorn, b. 1928,

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