Oral history interview with Mabel Eason and Carol Vander Pol, 1978 July 26.

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Oral history interview with Mabel Eason and Carol Vander Pol, 1978 July 26.

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Mabel Eason and her niece Carol Vander Pol discuss the acquisition of the farm; family history including the immigration of family from Holland; life in the early farmhouses; farm machinery; crops and livestock; music and town bands; shivarees; how the Germans in the community fared during World War I; prohibition and clandestine stills; various U.S. presidents; rural electrification; gas lamps; radio programs; threshing; the effects of the Depression and World War II on farming; gas rationing; butchering hogs; dances and other amusements; economic hardships of family farming including inheritance taxes; and the subjects in family photographs.

Transcript: 65 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

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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Eason, Mabel, b. 1892,

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Harris, Kathy

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Vander Pol, Carol, b. 1927,

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