Oral history interview with Ethel Tiefenthaler, 1978 July 19.

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Oral history interview with Ethel Tiefenthaler, 1978 July 19.

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The interview begins with a review of family history followed by an account of the acquisition of the farm from the Iowa Railroad Land Company. Tiefenthaler describes relatives' immigration from Germany; farm chores and implements; threshing parties; courtship and social life and customs; and the effects of World War II on farmers and farming.

Transcript: 15 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7032914

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...

Tiefenthaler, Ethel, b. 1924,

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Levy, Margaret J.,

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Mendelson, Michael

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