Oral history interview with Wesley E. Love, 1978 July 16.

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Oral history interview with Wesley E. Love, 1978 July 16.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183027466

Wesley Love discusses acquisition and inheritance of the farm near Arthur, Iowa (Ida County); attending school and then dropping out during the Depression; building the farm house; livestock (especially hogs) and livestock diseases; property values, mortgages and other economic issues associated with farming; farmers' strikes; soil erosion and conservation; farm machinery; and the future of farming.

Transcript: 19 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...

Conard, Rebecca

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Love, Wesley E., b. 1920,

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Tuori, Susan

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