Oral history interview with Agnes and David Stanford , 1978 July 12.

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Oral history interview with Agnes and David Stanford , 1978 July 12.

David and Agnes Stanford discuss family history; the acquisition and inheritance of the farm; his grandfather's activities as a circuit preacher; cash crops and livestock; life during the Depression; the construction of various farm buildings; quilting; beekeeping; parties, barn dances and other social events; rural schools; agricultural machinery and implements (corn sheller, cultivators, milk separators); etc.

Transcript: 12 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

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SNAC Resource ID: 6939067

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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Stanford, Agnes Elliott, b. 1895,

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Stanford, David LeRoy, b. 1892,

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Caffrey, Peggy,

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