Oral history interview with Edna Rohwer, 1978 July 14.

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Oral history interview with Edna Rohwer, 1978 July 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183027391

Edna Rohwer, a registered nurse from Westside, Iowa, discusses her family history; purchase of the farm land; inheritance of the farm; nurses and nursing; wine making; social activities; Germans in Iowa; raising crops and cattle; music; rural electrification; automobiles; etc.

Transcript: 27 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6944518

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...

Wallace, Max

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Rohwer, Edna, b. 1912,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Rohwer family.

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