Oral history interview with Ward Salisbury, 1978 July 19.

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Oral history interview with Ward Salisbury, 1978 July 19.

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Salisbury discusses the acquisition and inheritance of the farm; family history; a small town called Benan (now extinct) started by his grandfather; school teaching; the lack of farm labor during World War II; crops and livestock; breeding Arabian horses; rural electrification; pigs; prohibition and bootlegging; school sports; courtship; and farm houses.

Transcript: 15 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

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...

Salisbury, Ward, b. 1912,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Levy, Margaret J.,

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