Oral history interview with Edna Adams Spencer , 1978 July 26.

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Oral history interview with Edna Adams Spencer , 1978 July 26.

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Edna Spencer discusses her experiences as a student and as a young teacher in rural Buena Vista County schools; traveling by train to visit her grandmother in Chicago and a trip to west to California, Oregon, Washington and Glacier National Park with her sister; and her courtship and marriage to Ross Spencer. Of particular interest is her description of being a member of the first girls basketball team in her home town of Alta, Iowa.

Transcript: 6 leavesSound recording: 2 reel to reel tapes

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...

Conard, Rebecca

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Spencer, Edna Adama, b. 1889,

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Shaw, Alpha B. (Alpha Beatrice), 1912-2002

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