Oral history interview with Francis and Helena Foley, 1978 July 14.

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Oral history interview with Francis and Helena Foley, 1978 July 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183027411

Francis and Helena Foley discuss their family history including the immigration of a grandfather from Ireland; purchase and inheritance of the farm; changes in farming operations over time; farm equipment and mechanization; the Farmers' Holiday movement; crops and livestock; hardships during the depression; social activities; music; rural schools; the Irish community; prohibition and bootlegging; threshing parties; Patrick Lawler and the invention of the corn picker; etc.

Transcript: 36 leaves.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette.

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...

Mendelson, Michael

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Wallace, Max

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Foley, Francis, b. 1911,

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Foley, Helena, b. 1909.

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