Oral history interview with Donovan and Ellsworth Mason, 1978 July 12.

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Oral history interview with Donovan and Ellsworth Mason, 1978 July 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181343262

Donovan and Ellsworth Mason discuss family history; acquisition and inheritance of the farm; livestock and crops; crop rotation and contouring to conserve the soil; crop diseases and pests; threshing; alternative energy sources; agricultural machinery; the use of horses for hauling; life during the Depression; neighbors and friends; hybrid seeds; blizzards; raising cattle; etc.

Transcript: 21 leaves.Sound recording: 2 reel to reel tapes.

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...

Mason family.

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Mason, Donavon, b. 1923,

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Mason, Ellsworth Elmer, b. 1901,

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Conard, Rebecca

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Geiger, Veronica,

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