Oral history interview with Leonard and Carrie Stanford and Almeda Gray, 1978 July 25.

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Oral history interview with Leonard and Carrie Stanford and Almeda Gray, 1978 July 25.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225867129

The Stanford family discusses the history of the Cherokee County farm including the requirements that homesteaders needed to meet in order to keep the land; inheritance of the farm; bee keeping; a family member's years as a Methodist circuit rider and casket maker; Cherokee County businesses and churches when Leonard was young including a description of an ice-house operation; parties, games and other social events and customs; the economic impact of World War I and the Great Depression on farmers; farm mortgages; the farmers' holiday; droughts and dust storms; injuries incurred on the farm; crops.

Transcript: 28 leaves.Sound 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...

Gray, Almeda,

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Stanford, Leonard, b. 1901,

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Stanford, Carrie Leeds, b. 1901,

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Werly, Robert,

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Mendelson, Michael

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