Oral history interview with Alma Pauline Langer , 1978 July 24.

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Oral history interview with Alma Pauline Langer , 1978 July 24.

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Alma Langer discusses the acquisition of the farm; livestock and crops; farm machinery including replacing horse power with tractors; threshing rings and cooking for the threshers; courtship and shivaree; immigration of the family to Iowa from Germany; dance parties and music; and the effects of World War I on community families. Also includes a genealogical chart.

Transcript: 9 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7066144

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...

Langer, Alma Pauline, b. 1893,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Langer family.

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Ongley, Elizabeth A.

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