Oral history interview with Melvin and Joyce Pitts, 1978 July 13.

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Oral history interview with Melvin and Joyce Pitts, 1978 July 13.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181369203

Joyce and Melvin Pitts discuss raising livestock (cattle and hogs); milk production and sales; horses and harnesses; prohibition and bootlegging; and an onion poultice thought to prevent influenza. The collection also includes a family history booklet compiled by Joyce Pitts and the July 25, 1974 issue of the Cherokee Daily Times highlighting the centennial of the Pitts farm.

Transcript: 9 leavesSound recording: 1 cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6939208

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...

Levy, Margot, 1939-....

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Pitts family.

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Pitts, Melvin, b. 1909,

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Pitts, Joyce, b. 1921,

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Conard, Rebecca

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