Oral history interview with L. Velma Lloyd, 1978 August 3.

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Oral history interview with L. Velma Lloyd, 1978 August 3.

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Lloyd discusses how her Irish grandfather acquired the farm; her childhood chores including milking cows, helping with the chickens, housework, gardening and churning cream into butter; her mother's skills as a seamstress and cook; her school days at the Carrollton consolidated school; her experiences teaching at the Heald country school; furnishing her home after she got married; her wedding, wedding dress, hope chest, wedding gifts and shivaree; rural electrification; holiday celebrations and customs; prohibition and bootleggers; and women's social clubs.

Transcript: 17 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...

Ongley, Elizabeth,

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Conard, Rebecca

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Lloyd, L. Velma, b. 1905,

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