Oral history interview with Mary Kirkendall, 1978 July 14.

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Oral history interview with Mary Kirkendall, 1978 July 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183027429

Mary Kirkendall discusses the immigration of relatives from Ireland and Norway; the purchase and inheritance of the farm near Sloan, Iowa (Woodbury County); her family history; the purchase of an International Harvester tractor to replace horse drawn equipment; the effects of the Depression on the family; a family dairy business; hybrid corn and other crops; Missouri River flooding; a dairy strike in Salix, Iowa; erosion control; etc.

Transcript: 16 leaves.Sound recording: 1 reel to reel tape.

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6944521

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...

Futterman, Alan,

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Conard, Rebecca

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Kirkendall, Mary E., b. 1919,

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