Oral history interview with Neva R. Held , 1978 July 25.

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Oral history interview with Neva R. Held , 1978 July 25.

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Neva Held discusses her unhappiness with becoming a teacher, one of only a few options for girls at the time; her small wedding; her children; the acquisition and inheritance of the farmland; the Held family history including the immigration of family members from Germany; Sioux City in the 1850s; the blizzard of 1888; nursing her husband through various injuries; development of land surrounding the farm; an arson incident which destroyed the family barn and 36 horses; and raising cattle.

Transcript: 18 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

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...

Conard, Rebecca

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Whitman, Sylvia, 1961-

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Held family.

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Held, Neva Lucille Royer, 1896-1987

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