Oral history interview with Irvin Junck, 1978 August 1.

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Oral history interview with Irvin Junck, 1978 August 1.

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Irvin Junck discusses family history including his grandfather's decision to move from Germany to avoid having to serve in the armed forces; general farm operations; soil conservation and flood control; hog cholera and vaccinations; milk strikes; hard economic times during the Depression and drought years; workers flocking to California on the trains in search of work in the fields; meeting his wife, their wedding and shivaree; and square dancing and music. A large portion of the interview is devoted to a discussion about the Hinton cooperative and Junck's opinions about cooperatives in general -- finances, competition with large agribusiness, the future of cooperatives, and one tale of corruption.

Transcript: 23 leaves.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette.

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...

Junck, Irvin, b. 1911,

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Whitman, Sylvia, 1961-

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Conard, Rebecca

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Junck family.

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