Oral history interview with Julia H. Booth, 1978 July 18.

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Oral history interview with Julia H. Booth, 1978 July 18.

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Julia Booth discusses the acquisition of the farm and Kirchner family history; the founding of Peterson, Iowa by the Kirchner family; wheat farming and tree planting; her mother's (Hortense Butler Heywood) education and career as an entomologist and paleontologist; the education of various other women in the family; the importance of the church in the early community; her mother's gardening and club activities; various hardships faced by the early pioneer families; and the arrangements between Booth and a long term tenant family (the Guttersons) who farm the land.

Transcript: 13 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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...

Geiger, Veronica,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Booth, Julia H., b. 1931,

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Harstad, Peter T.

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Kirchner family.

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