Oral history interview with Edward Renze , 1978 July 31.

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Oral history interview with Edward Renze , 1978 July 31.

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Edward Renze and other family members discuss family history and the acquisition of the family farm land; the immigration of family members from Germany; the change of the Carroll County seat from Carrollton to Carroll; selling and storing grain; raising cattle and horses; crop rotation; growing tobacco; farm chores; steam engines; threshing; tractors and various farm implements; the draft during World War I and local boys who served during the war; influenza; early cars and roads; attending Catholic schools and school curriculum; soil erosion; remedies for various livestock ailments; struggles during the Depression; farm economics; womans suffrage; prohibition and Templeton Rye; his wedding celebration; music and social events; and hybrid seed corn.

Transcript: 59 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

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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...

Renze, Edward, b. 1897,

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Werly, Robert,

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Conard, Rebecca

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