Oral history interview with Julius and Hulda Rosella De Jong, 1978 July 26.

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Oral history interview with Julius and Hulda Rosella De Jong, 1978 July 26.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226086281

The De Jongs discuss various public service positions they held and memberships in community organizations; the immigration of relatives from Holland; homesteading; farm inheritance and taxes; farm equipment; threshing rings; piano lessons, the town orchestra and choral society; Clydesdales and other horses; social events and entertainments; soil conservation; Orange City, Iowa history including the founding of the First Reformed Church; prohibition and Templeton Rye; and subjects in family photographs.

Transcript: 40 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassette

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...

Mendelson, Michael

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De Jong, Julius E., b. 1897,

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De Jong family.

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De Jong, Hulda Rosella,

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