Oral history interview with Clara M. Lacey, 1978 July 17.

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Oral history interview with Clara M. Lacey, 1978 July 17.

Clara Lacey discusses acquisition of the farm property; the farm's mortgage; rural electrification; farm chores; horse shows; rural school teaching; parties and Christmas celebrations.

Transcript: 6 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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SNAC Resource ID: 6955137

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, Mary Jo,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Lacey, Clara M., b. 1906,

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